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La 4e de couv. indique : "La décentralisation est au coeur de la genèse de l'internet, dont l'objectif premier était de faire communiquer des machines hétérogènes et distantes, sans passer par un point unique. Aujourd'hui, la concentration domine, autour de macro-acteurs, ces « géants »...
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Is it possible to implement trustworthy governance mechanisms for Bitcoin -- the technology that, by design and by manifesto, “was not meant to be governed” to begin with? This question has been raised several times since the creation of Bitcoin, which has been presented as an...
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Users of secure messaging tools, especially in communities attuned to the risks of statebased and other forms of censorship, increasingly hesitate to delegate their data to centralised platforms, endowed with substantial power to filter content and block user profiles. This article analyses the...
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This special issue of Internet Policy Review brings together a hand-picked selection of articles presented in the Communication Policy and Technology (CPT) section at the annual conference of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) in Eugene, Oregon (USA),...
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David Howarth, Francesca Musiani, Julia Pohle and Dwayne Winseck were invited to discuss the main topic of this special issue, “The internet and the EU market.” This conversation at the crossroads of several research areas (communication studies, sociology, science and technology studies and...
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Users of secure messaging tools, especially in communities attuned to the risks of statebased and other forms of censorship, increasingly hesitate to delegate their data to centralised platforms, endowed with substantial power to filter content and block user profiles. This article analyses the...
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Provides original sociological research on the development of consumer credit scoring in the United States and its links to subprime mortgage finance.
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Presents a case study on the Arizona Stock Exchange, with an emphasis on how exchange automation altered the definition of the market.
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The article documents and analyzes patients organizations- and groups of activists’ “evidence-based activismâ€, and the compound dynamic interplay between politics of illness and politics of knowledge it entails in the four condition areas studied: ADHD, Alzheimer, rare diseases...
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This article proposes the notion of ‘evidence-based activism’ to capture patients’ and health activists’ groups’ focus on knowledge production and knowledge mobilisation in the governance of health issues. It shows how these groups engage with, and articulate a variety of credentialed...
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