actant

Actant
An actant, when endowed with 'character', it is said to be an actor in a network of related actors, that is, "An actor is an **actant** endowed with a character," (Akrich & Latour, 1992, p.259, emphasis added).

In actor-network theory (ANT) studies, actant is a term commonly used "to denote both human and non-human elements of the network," (e.g. Saeed & Gopal, 2005, p. 3).