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This document summarizes three perspectives on the agency of artifacts in technology studies: realism, social constructivism, and the hybrid perspective. Realism holds that artifacts can be analyzed as having inherent properties and agency. Social constructivism views artifacts as having only socially constructed properties and no inherent agency. The hybrid perspective advocated in actor-network theory is that artifacts emerge with properties through their embedding in networks including both human and non

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