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 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’…
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…
A book by Liliana Doganova published by Les Presses des Mines. Open innovation requires constant exchanges between science and the market, and research-based start-ups are a prime vehicle for this. While the creation of these “start-ups” based on scientific research has been strongly encouraged by public policy over the last ten years, little is known about the effects they have on their markets. This book proposes an original approach: to account for the impact of these start-ups, it tracks the innovation networks they build and sustain.
Sociology of market-agencements. Selected writings What is the market? For the past fifteen years, Michel Callon and researchers at the Center for Sociology of Innovation (CSI) at the École des mines have been examining this issue, which is so little…
