Future Developments
Michel Callon, Jean–Pierre Courtial, William Turner · Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks · 1986
Compared with other techniques such as co-citation analysis which already has a long history, the co-word analysis technique is only now entering its development phase. More work will be required before it can be used in a routine manner. In the first part of this book we presented the theoretical foundation of the method. Both the translation and the actor-network theories will be further elaborated elsewhere in order to show their full implications for the social sciences. But these theoretical developments will probably have only a limited impact upon the coword analysis technique. Improvements in the method will essentially depend upon how it is used and the reactions which are encountered. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.