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…
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…
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…
Interview of Guillaume Yon Your PhD thesis ‘EDF and the construction of national economy’ is primarily based on the exploitation of the archives of Electricité of France (EDF). How did you come to making these archives the main source…
