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View article: Guest editorial: Out in the field with Bruno Latour
Guest editorial: Out in the field with Bruno Latour Open
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View article: How Plastics Came to Pollute the Technical Literature
How Plastics Came to Pollute the Technical Literature Open
Today, we know a great deal about how plastics invade the oceans, but we know less about how these same pollutants begin to colonize the world upstream, even before the manufacturing process, when inventors draft their patents. This paper …
View article: How plastics came to pollute the technical literature. Evidence from US patents on facemasks
How plastics came to pollute the technical literature. Evidence from US patents on facemasks Open
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View article: Introduction: studying the display of prices
Introduction: studying the display of prices Open
The introduction acquaints the reader with the issue of price display in markets and elaborates on how this book has sought to shed further light on it. It reviews previous work on prices in four disciplines, illustrating that price displa…
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Shedding light on a range of price fixing mechanisms and price display technologies, this incisive book offers a clear overview of the retail price setting, posting and adjusting processes. Based on a detailed study of a century of pricing…
View article: Indexing prices: prices and the fingers of the invisible hand
Indexing prices: prices and the fingers of the invisible hand Open
Chapter 1 starts from the etymology of the term “digital” (from digitus, finger or toe) and shows that the display of prices in retail settings surprisingly rests on a digitalization process right from the beginning. The chapter focuses on…
View article: Introduction: shifting perspectives on the organizing properties of space
Introduction: shifting perspectives on the organizing properties of space Open
This chapter situates the contributions to the book by sketching out relational and poststructuralist perspectives on space and tracing their important translations into the field of Management and Organization Studies. Specifically, it co…
View article: How Matters of Concern Invade Technologies
How Matters of Concern Invade Technologies Open
Markets have evolved from classic markets to concerned markets – that is, markets that focus not only on economic efficiency and the utilitarian matching between supply and demand but also on the negative externalities produced by market p…
View article: Mask self-production during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons from a flash practice
Mask self-production during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons from a flash practice Open
This article examines the self-production of washable and reusable sanitary masks during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic by focusing on the varied concerns, skills, and material resources that people mobilized. Based on hundreds …
View article: Digitalizing consumer society: equipment and devices of digital consumption
Digitalizing consumer society: equipment and devices of digital consumption Open
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View article: Funny bikes: a symmetrical study of urban space, vehicular units and mobility through the voyeuristic spokesperson of a video lens
Funny bikes: a symmetrical study of urban space, vehicular units and mobility through the voyeuristic spokesperson of a video lens Open
This paper presents methodological considerations from a comparative, symmetrical video analysis of cyclist practices in Gothenburg and Toulouse. Video recording pays as much attention to the properties of bicycles as to the characteristic…
View article: Funny bikes: a symmetrical study of urban space, vehicular units and mobility through the voyeuristic spokesperson of a video lens
Funny bikes: a symmetrical study of urban space, vehicular units and mobility through the voyeuristic spokesperson of a video lens Open
This paper presents methodological considerations from a comparative, symmetrical video analysis of cyclist practices in Gothenburg and Toulouse. Video recording pays as much attention to the properties of bicycles as to the characteristic…
View article: Funny bikes: a symmetrical study of urban space, vehicular units and mobility through the voyeuristic spokesperson of a video lens
Funny bikes: a symmetrical study of urban space, vehicular units and mobility through the voyeuristic spokesperson of a video lens Open
This paper presents methodological considerations from a comparative, symmetrical video analysis of cyclist practices in Gothenburg and Toulouse. Video recording pays as much attention to the properties of bicycles as to the characteristic…
View article: Mundane intermodality: a comparative analysis of bike-renting practices
Mundane intermodality: a comparative analysis of bike-renting practices Open
Bike rental systems have been introduced as a sustainable urban mobility alternative. This paper analyses the social practices that emerge as part of these systems. We specifically focus on the interactions and street-level performances at…
View article: “Dear Sganarelle, Would You Like a Cigarette P(l)ain Package?” A Sociology of Tobacco Plain Packaging
“Dear Sganarelle, Would You Like a Cigarette P(l)ain Package?” A Sociology of Tobacco Plain Packaging Open
But what is plain packaging really? How does it work? And does it work? This paper analyzes the nature, workings, and implications of tobacco packaging through a close examination of what it is, what it promises, and what it actually does.…
View article: The Work of Globalization: How Standardization May Impact the Globalization of Work
The Work of Globalization: How Standardization May Impact the Globalization of Work Open
HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci-entific research documents, whether they are pub-lished or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or…
View article: On Curiosity: The Art of Market Seduction
On Curiosity: The Art of Market Seduction Open
of Window Displays The Effects of Locks The Effects of Mirrors 4 • 'Teasing' Packaging (Teasing, Scene 1) Advertising (Teaser, Scene 2) Continually Agitating Curiosity, or How to Lead a Consumer towards Wonderland Data Matrix 5 • 'Closer' …