Hi Jeffrey, i see you are on a similar professional and academic jorney to my own. At lancaster University is a centre for actor-network theory in their sociology department with John Law.
I also note the title of your blog referring to silence and voice and wonder if you have read any of the work by Susan leigh Star. Latour’s actor-network theory challenges ideas of how knowledge is constructed through to how the researcher is positioned. I think you ould enjoy reading about such approaches more, have a look at Law’s after method mess, or Latours reassembling the social. Both these will at least have a taster available through amazon.com Fundamantal premise for actor network theory (ANT) is that human and non human actors have influence, so this might also appeal to your IT interests.
Nice blog btw 🙂