At the Prize ceremony organized at the newspaper’s premises on November 18th, 2015, Pierre-André Juven was awarded the 2015 Le Monde Prize for University Research by Edgar Morin, Chairman of the Humanities and Social sciences jury, for his PhD thesis…
Liliana Doganova and Brice Laurent have created a minor in “Public Affairs and Innovation” (API) as part of the engineering training at Mines-ParisTech, which meets both the current challenges of innovation and an increasing demand for engineers with an educational…
The Equilibrists. An Ethnography of Management Consulting Conquering technicians? Quacks of the modern world? Management consultants are often ridiculed by critics but they are little studied for what they do. Consulting can neither be reduced to the mechanical application of…
Initially published in French in 1993 by éditions Métailié (and reprinted in 2007), La passion musicale : une sociologie de la médiation, was published by Routledge with translation by Margaret Rigaud in 2015.
The book is now open-access on Routledge site.
Dwarfs without Giants – Decentralized architecture and Internet services Decentralization is central in the genesis of the Internet, its primary objective was to make heterogeneous and distant machines communicate without going through a unique point. Today, concentration dominates around macro-actors,…
When political, social, technological and economic interests, values, and perspectives interact, market order and performance become contentious issues of debate. Such ‘hot’ situations are becoming increasingly common and make for rich sites of research. With expert empirical contributions investigating the…
The final symposium of ADAM – Distributed Architecture and Multimedia Applications, which took place on October 2nd and 3rd, 2014, at the École des Mines, was designed to invite researchers in information and communication sciences, in economics, law, network engineering…
2 & 3 octobre 2014 Symposium co-organisé par le CSI dans le cadre du projet ADAM (projet ANR-10-CORD-004) Plus d’information→
The 3rd Interdisciplinary Market Studies Workshop was held on June 5- 6, 2014 in a beautiful former convent in Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume, Southern France. The program designed by the organizers, Kimberly Chong (University of London), Susi Geiger (University College Dublin), Hans Kjellberg…
The making of sale: Commercial work in telecommunications In a society where the market penetrates all spheres of activity, the sale becomes a decisive test. But if many studies have examined the new clothes of the consumer, the mechanisms of…
