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…
Coordinated by Vololona Rabeharisoa (CSI), Madeleine Akrich (CSI), and Tiago Moreira (Durham University), this special issue provides empirical data and analysis on what the authors call “evidence-based activism”. This notion has been proposed to capture patients’ and health activists’ groups’…
On May 21st, Sabine Montagne and Fabian Muniesa set up at the University Paris-Dauphine a joint workshop entitled “Sociology of finance and investment figures”, involving both the CSI and the IRISSO. The project of an institutional collaboration between the CSI…
Financial value and truth. A political anthropological study of the assessment of the companies listed on stock exchange The financial industry has taken a prominent place in the global economy over the last thirty years. In the name of the…
Do things such as performance indicators, valuation formulas, consumer tests, stock prices or financial contracts represent an external reality? Or do they rather constitute, in a performative fashion, what they refer to? The Provoked Economy tackles this question from a…
This book is the first to deal with the world composition of television ratings. It focuses on the peoplemeter, a 25 year old technology which succeeds in homogenizing very different populations and television practices. It provides a fascinating account of…
