i3 seminar “Analysis of online participation” will welcome Noortje Marrès for a session about Situational analytics: Why social research must become inventive in a digital age It has been argued that digital data and data tools enable new ways…
The EHESS seminar « Health and Big Data » will welcome Alberto Cambrosio Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University, Montréal Knowledge architectures for genomic data interpretation in oncology Date: 15 November, 2018 The seminar « Health and Big Data » is…
Identity & DNA identification Social issues surrounding non-medical uses of genetic analysis International closing conferences of the ANR project Genetic databases and Witnesses. Genealogy, Social Issues, Circulation (FITEGE) coordinated by Joëlle Vailly Scientific Committee / Organizing Committee: Pascal Beauvais (Pr…
Nassima Abdelghafour
The Mushroom at the End of the World. On the possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins, published by Princeton University Press in 2015, is the latest book by anthropologist Anna Tsing. It is about a wild mushroom called matsutake, which has been appreciated as a delicacy and a fine gift for centuries in Japan because of its aromatic qualities. After World War II, as Japan industrialized, forests were felled and peasants stopped tending to the communal woodlands (called satoyama) in the traditional way. The landscapes where matsutake once thrived disappeared, and by the 1970s matsutake had become very hard to come by in Japan. The book follows the global supply chains that procure matsutake to the Japanese market…
Book edited by Brice Laurent, Michael Baker, Valérie Beaudouin and Nathalie Raulet-Croset
“Co-creation”, “open innovation” or “responsible innovation” are some of the new expectations of innovation. This new innovation repertoire is used in companies, public authorities and civil society organisations. It translates into instruments (digital platforms, collaborative spaces, etc.) dedicated to renewing the relationship between innovation and its audiences, and allowing to consider innovation as a participatory process. How does participation manifest itself in innovation processes? What are the economic and political…
A l’initiative de son directeur scientifique Alexandre Monnin, Origens Medialab, dont est membre Antoine Hennion, organise du 24 au 26 septembre 2018 un colloque intitulé « Avec » Antoine Hennion : de la Passion Musicale aux êtres fragiles.
Argument du colloque :
Il y a vingt-cinq paraissait La Passion musicale, illustration par le geste de la sociologie de la médiation d’Antoine Hennion, qui, parallèlement aux travaux développés dans le champ des sciences et des techniques par Bruno Latour et Michel Callon, puis Madeleine Akrich, ouvrit l’ANT (théorie de l’acteur-réseau) à de nouveaux terrains, dans les champs jusqu’alors inexplorés par cette dernière de l’art et de la culture. Cet anniversaire…
Minor in Public Affairs and Innovation (PAI): Defense of end of studies projects On 25 and 26 June 2018, students enrolled in the minor in Public Affairs and Innovation (API) will defend their end-of-studies projects. Under the supervision of…
The EHESS Seminar Health and Big Data will welcome Geoffrey Bowker Values in Design Laboratory, University of California, Irvine Information Infrastructures and Personal Sensors Date: June 21, 2017 The seminar « Health and Big Data » is held on the third…
Le séminaire de recherche du CSI « Fragilités » accueillera Tim Edensor Maintaining, Restoring, Neglecting and Disposing: the changing values of Melbourne’s building stone Tim Edensor teaches cultural geography at Manchester Metropolitan University. His work has focused on national…
The invisible work of data
Elements for a sociology of scriptural infrastructures
Open, massive, raw… data are at the heart of many debates today. Optimists see it as a natural resource whose…
