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…
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…
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’…
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…
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…
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…
