Author: Florence Paterson

Mobilités

Mobilités Journée organisée le cadre des actions transversales i3 Cette journée d’étude vise à rassembler les différentes études menées dans l’Institut Interdisciplinaire de l’Innovation i3 (UMR CNRS 9217) sur le thème des mobilités, afin d’établir un dialogue dépassant les cadres…

Alexandre Violle

Alexandre Violle joined the CSI as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in November 2023. He is coordinating a five-year research project entitled “Anticipation: the futures of French subsoil use” (ANTICIP) carried out by research teams from three partner institutions: Ecole des Mines de Paris, IMT Mines Alès and Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (BRGM).

Experimenting in pandemic times

The Corona cycleways and the new contours of the cycling city

Jérôme Denis and Nolwenn Garnier

On May 13, 2020, the City of Paris announced the creation within a few weeks of cycleways to support the process of unlock-down after the first wave of the health crisis that had emptied the streets of the capital. In line with initiatives that had flourished all over the world, these lanes were already beginning to spread in a few cities in France, and were at the center of a regional policy designed to promote the modal shift […]

Bruno Latour Laureate of the 2021 Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy

Bruno Latour, Professor Emeritus, Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po), former Professor and current Honorary member at the Centre for the Sociology of Innovation (CSI) is Laureate of the 2021 Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy.

The Kyoto 2021 Prize, announced by the Inamori Foundation, was awarded to Bruno Latour in recognition of his achievement in “Radically Re-examining “Modernity” by Developing a Philosophy that Focuses on Interactions Between Technoscience and Social Structure”.

Angèle Christin (Stanford University)

The CSI Guests Seminar will host Angèle Christin Assistant professor of communication at Stanford University to discuss her book Metrics at Work: Journalism and the Contested Meaning of Algorithms Introduction to the discussion by Clément Gasull Back cover: When the…

Julia Velkovska and Moustafa Zouinar (SENSE-Orange Lab)

i3 seminar “Analysis of online participation” will welcome Julia Velkovska and Moustafa Zouinar Relationships to “conversational” machines Living with voice assistants at home Julia Velkovska is a researcher at the SENSE laboratory (Sociology and Economics of Networks and Services) of…

Rethinking Music through Science and Technology Studies

Edited by Antoine Hennion & Christophe Levaux

This volume seeks to offer a new approach to the study of music through the lens of recent works in science and technology studies (STS), which propose that facts are neither absolute truths, nor completely relative, but emerge from an intensely collective process of construction. Applied to the study of music, this approach enables us to reconcile the human, social, factual, and technological aspects of the musical world, and opens the prospect of new areas of inquiry in musicology and sound studies. […]

Sur la trace des suspects

L’incorporation de la preuve et de l’indice à l’ère de la génétique

edited by Joëlle Vailly

We are pleased to announce the publication of this new book at Editions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme to which Vololona Rabeharisoa and Florence Paterson have contributed.

The use of genetic data in the police and justice system has developed spectacularly over the last thirty years. Based on interviews, observation of trials and the examination of documents, this book analyses the social and legal issues of these innovations in France. The authors study the daily practices of […]

Emmanuel Didier (Centre Maurice Halbwachs)

EHESS seminar « Health and Big Data » Emmanuel Didier CNRS Research Director, Researcher at Centre Maurice Halbwachs – CMH – CNRS/ENS/EHESS will present a Note on the surprisingly low price of health data Date: April 15, 2021, from 3…

Mathieu Brugidou and Philippe Suignard

i3 seminar “Analysis of online participation” will welcome Mathieu Brugidou and Philippe Suignard What can word embedding algorithms do for the sociological analysis of texts? Mathieu Brugidou is a senior researcher at EDF R&D, Energy Technology and Society Research Group,…