https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/Algorithms-and-the-female-silhouette https://booksandideas.net/Algorithms-and-the-female-silhouette 2026-02-17T06:30:00Z text/html en Hélène Bourdeloie & Solenne Carof Society discrimination women body fashion social media algorithms <p>The female silhouette – understood as the body's visible form and socially perceived appearance – has long been shaped by social norms. In the age of social media, these norms are intensifying, prompting, in response, the rise of so-called “body-positive” movements.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Going-postal-An-anthropology-of-postal-work-in-France https://booksandideas.net/Going-postal-An-anthropology-of-postal-work-in-France 2023-05-30T13:01:23Z text/html en Nadège Vezinat Society labour sociology of work algorithms Cairn.info <p>Nicolas Jounin's undercover immersive fieldwork takes the reader on a postal worker's route, one week before his office was reorganized—when he had only a week's seniority.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Digital-Serfs https://booksandideas.net/Digital-Serfs 2023-03-09T09:30:00Z text/html en Thibault Darcillon Economy digital exploitation algorithms Cairn.info <p>Cédric Durand analyzes the consequences for economic structures of the rise of the digital economy, in terms both of competitive dynamics and social relations – and sees in them a new form of feudalism.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Algorithms-and-Territorial-Regulation https://booksandideas.net/Algorithms-and-Territorial-Regulation 2019-12-16T07:00:00Z text/html en Dominique Cardon & Maxime Crépel Society internet city governance algorithms Uber <p>Uber, Waze, Airbnb… The algorithms that control these platforms are based on an optimisation of the service provided to the user rather than any collective, political or moral norms. The accusations against these algorithms expose the way technical architectures implicitly govern our lives.</p>