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/A-Digital-Age-Without-Proletarians https://booksandideas.net/A-Digital-Age-Without-Proletarians 2017-12-18T08:00:00Z text/html en Sébastien Broca Philosophy labour information Marxism digital Institut français exploitation big data <p>Has the digital economy definitively made the main tools of Marxist analysis obsolete? This is Mariano Zukerfeld's argument, in a lively essay that suggests rethinking the critique of capitalism around the question of knowledge rather than labour. However, his demonstration lacks a convincing theory of value.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-General-Interest https://booksandideas.net/The-General-Interest 2016-12-05T08:00:00Z text/html en Philippe Steiner Economy market rationality information regulation Institut français <p>By building markets, distributing information, and developing adapted incentives, modern economic theory claims to lead us to the common good.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Big-Data-The-Far-West-of-Information https://booksandideas.net/Big-Data-The-Far-West-of-Information 2015-09-17T08:30:00Z text/html en Cristelle Terroni Society Economy communication internet Video Interviews information consumerism Institut français (vidéo) <p>What is big data ? Who uses it and how ? Pierre-Michel Menger and Simon Paye analyse the economics of these new information flows, which are transforming both marketing and consumption practices, and probably social sciences as well.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Constraints-of-the-Right-to https://booksandideas.net/The-Constraints-of-the-Right-to 2014-01-16T08:00:00Z text/html en Paul-Loup Weil-Dubuc Enlightenment Philosophy medicine freedom information law Florence Gould Foundation <p>The patient's access to information is viewed today as a fundamental principle in the ethics of health care. However, this essay shows that in the case of presymptomatic diagnosis, exercising one's right to know can in fact be working against the patient's liberty.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Risk-and-the-Masses https://booksandideas.net/Risk-and-the-Masses 2010-12-03T08:00:00Z text/html en Jean-Baptiste Fressoz Carousel History communication statistics internet medicine information risk <span class="caps">FMSH</span> <p>The failure of the vaccination campaign against the <span class="caps">H1N1</span> virus has sometimes been blamed on the ‘wild rumours' circulating on the Internet. According to Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, this interpretation misses the point. He offers a stimulating historical parallel between the inoculation against smallpox in the 18<sup class="typo_exposants">th</sup> century and the <span class="caps">H1N1</span> outbreak of 2009. His analysis highlights the limitations of risk as a method of persuasion and body management.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Designing-wisdom-through-the-Web https://booksandideas.net/Designing-wisdom-through-the-Web 2008-09-30T07:38:21Z text/html en Gloria Origgi Arts media internet la suite gauche information evaluation networks <p>How can people and computers be connected so that—collectively—they act more intelligently than any individuals, groups, or computers? Gloria Origgi claims that Internet is a giant network of ranking and rating systems in which information is valued as long as it has been already filtered by other people. The <i>Information Age</i> is being replaced by a <i>Reputation Age</i>.</p>