Category: Books

Innovation et participation. Approches critiques

by Florence Paterson • 20 September 2018

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…

Le travail invisible des données. Éléments pour une sociologie des infrastructures scripturales, a book by Jérôme Denis

by Florence Paterson • 21 March 2018

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…

L’emprise des marchés, a book by Michel Callon

by Florence Paterson • 22 December 2017

The grip of markets. Understanding how they function in order to change them

While partisans and despisers of the market economy confront each other with a rare violence, a prior question arises: what is a market?
Michel Callon shows that the organization of market activities is not limited to the mere confrontation between offers and demands. How is a “thing” transformed, after immense […]

Democratic experiments, a book by Brice Laurent

by Florence Paterson • 1 July 2017

In Democratic Experiments, Brice Laurent discusses the challenges that emerging technologies create for democracy today. He focuses on nanotechnology and its attendant problems, proposing nanotechnology as a lens through which to understand contemporary democracy in both theory and practice.

Capitalization. A Cultural Guide

by webcsi • 13 December 2016

The authors are: Fabian Muniesa, Liliana Doganova, Horacio Ortiz, Álvaro Pina-Stranger, Florence Paterson, Alaric Bourgoin, Véra Ehrenstein, Pierre-André Juven, David Pontille, Başak Saraç-Lesavre and Guillaume Yon What does it mean to turn something into capital? What does considering things as…

Une santé qui compte ? Les coûts et les tarifs controversés de l’hôpital public, a book by Pierre-André Juven

by Florence Paterson • 20 September 2016

Health that counts? Costs and hospital rates in the French hospital policy What is a profitable patient? What is an excessively costly patient? How do we judge that a hospital is not productive enough? How do some hospitals end up…

Signer ensemble. Contribution et évaluation en sciences, a book by David Pontille

by Florence Paterson • 6 April 2016

Signing Together. Contribution and Evaluation in Science Scientific activity is crossed with a fundamental tension between organizational forms of collaborative work and evaluation policies that consecrate individual geniuses. This tension regularly restarts the debates about the authorship of scientific articles…

Abécédaire des architectures distribuées, a book edited by Cécile Méadel and Francesca Musiani

by Florence Paterson • 30 November 2015

A Primer on Distributed Architectures What is meant by distributed network architecture? Trivially it is called peer-to-peer. From a technical standpoint, it evokes an organization made of multiple calculation units, resources sharing, the absence of unique point, flexibility… in short,…

Les Équilibristes. Une ethnographie du conseil en management, a book by Alaric Bourgoin

by Florence Paterson • 5 July 2015

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…

The Passion for Music: A Sociology of Mediation, a book by Antoine Hennion

by Florence Paterson • 22 June 2015

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.

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