The Making of Encryption, Secure Messaging and Digital Liberties

by Ksenia Ermoshina & Francesca Musiani

Concealing for Freedom: The Making of Encryption, Secure Messaging and Digital Liberties sets out to explore one of the core battlegrounds of Internet governance: the encryption of online communications. Current debates around encryption have fundamental implications for our individual liberties and collective presence on the Internet. Encryption of communications at scale and in increasingly usable ways has become a matter of public concern, especially since Edward Snowden’s 2013 revelations. A new cryptographic imaginary is taking hold, which sees encryption as a necessary precondition for the formation of networked publics.

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The Troubled Dreams of Harmonization

Brice Laurent

How interventions based on objects—including chemicals, financial products, and consumer goods—offer a path to rethink European integration. […]

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Edited by Antoine Hennion & Christophe Levaux

This volume seeks to offer a new approach to the study of music through the lens of recent works in science and technology studies (STS), which propose that facts are neither absolute truths, nor completely relative, but emerge from an intensely collective process of construction. Applied to the study of music, this approach enables us to reconcile the human, social, factual, and technological aspects of the musical world, and opens the prospect of new areas of inquiry in musicology and sound studies. […]

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L’incorporation de la preuve et de l’indice à l’ère de la génétique

sous la direction de Joëlle Vailly

Nous avons le plaisir d’annoncer la parution aux les Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme d’un livre auquel Vololona Rabeharisoa et Florence Paterson ont contribué.

L’usage des données génétiques par la police et la justice a connu un développement spectaculaire au cours des trente dernières années. S’appuyant sur des entretiens, sur l’observation de procès et sur l’analyse de documents, cet ouvrage analyse les enjeux sociaux et juridiques de ces innovations en France. Les auteurs étudient les pratiques quotidiennes des professionnels confrontés à […]

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