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…
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…
There was a time, in the early 2000s, when defining oneself as an expert on the issues of Internet governance was met by the public with indifference if not perplexity. The word “Internet governance” seemed to refer to a strange…
My PhD work focuses on the controversial case of the nickel exploitation in the South of New Caledonia: the Goro-Nickel project. This controversy involves the formulation of environmental (local, but also international) claims and the emergence of new identity-based 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…
On 3 February, Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin, Chair of the CNIL presented Francesca Musiani with the “Data Processing and Liberties” Thesis Prize, the 5th of these prizes that was awarded by the CNIL[1]. The prize rewards the quality of her research work…
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.
At the age of “smart cities”, new uses of automobile are appearing. Nowadays, a car can be rented for a few hours, shared for the duration of a road trip or exchanged between neighbors. From a product that is owned,…
With sociologists from several research centers, in Lyons and in Paris, we carried out two ethnographical studies on homecare (see references below). Actually, it would be more accurate to say that these studies address disability and care in a reciprocal…
The Public policies analysis Thesis Award was awarded to Benjamin Lemoine by the French Association of Political science on July 10, 2013, during the association’s 12th annual Congress, at a ceremony organized at the National Assembly. The Thesis Prize is…
