SUMMARY OF THE DOSSIER:

Introduction

AI, medicine, and social sciences – A perspective. By Gérald Gaglio and Alexandre Mathieu-Fritz

Artificial intelligence and medicine:

Intertwining and "professionalization" of socio-technical promises. The case of AI in radiology. By Lise Arena, Gérald Gaglio, and Jean-Sébastien Vayre

Beyond explainability. Study of the design of intelligible artificial intelligence in pathological anatomy and cytology. By Océane Fiant, Camille Franchet, and Robin Schwob

The dermatologist, melanoma, and artificial intelligence. The (slow) development of uses and transformations in clinical reflexivity. By Alexandre Mathieu-Fritz and Dilara Vanessa Trupia

The coding of medical information put to the test by AI. Performance and uncertainty of coding in hospitals. By Loubna Echajari, Hugo Jeanningros, and Myriam Lewkowicz

The production of mortality data. The improvement of coding procedures supported by deep learning. By Isabella Feroni

The black box and the doctor. Investigation into the legal issue of the explainability of medical AI. By Sonia Desmoulin

Reading notes:

Ulises A. MEJIAS and Nick COULDRY, Data Grab. The New Colonialism of Big Tech (and How to Fight Back), London, WH Allen, 2024, 303 p. By Sébastien Broca

Melchior SIMIONI and Philippe STEINER, The Matching Society, Paris, Sciences Po Les Presses, 2024, 172 p. By Tristan Dominguez

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Summary of the dossier:

• Making a living from views. By Olivier Alexandre and Bilel Benbouzid

• The YouTube market. Organization, revenue, and topology. By Olivier Alexandre, Bilel Benbouzid, Arnaud Lelievre, and Bertrand Roudier

• Working on your channel. Platform videographers and their sources of income. By Quentin Gilliotte and Dominique Pasquier

• Gift capitalism. Economic sociology of the Twitch platform. By Nathan Ferret

• The flip side of fame and the market. Behind the scenes with anonymous Twitch streamers. By Sylvain Juanes and Manuel Boutet

• Behind the smiles, precariousness. Content creation among independent coaches. By Anne Jourdain

• Understanding algorithms in action. The case of the content qualification infrastructure of the Dailymotion platform. By Thomas Jaffeux

Miscellaneous:

• Lancetgate or scientific publishing put to the test by Twitter. Disorganized skepticism. By Émilien Schultz, Simon Guillouet, Emma Cape, and Guillaume Lachenal

Reading notes:

Carole GAYET-VIAUD, Urban Civility: The Elementary Forms of Democratic Coexistence, Paris, Economica, 2022, coll. "Sociological Studies," 227 p. By Aude LAUPIE

Juan Sebastián CARBONELL, Le futur du travail (The Future of Work), Paris, Éditions Amsterdam, 2022, 192 p. By Marion BEAUVALET

Antoine BURRET, Nos tiers-lieux. Défendre les lieux de sociabilité du quotidien (Our Third Places: Defending Everyday Social Spaces), FYP Editions, 2023, 256 p. By Matthieu Demory

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Portraits from Flux magazine

In accordance with publishing rights, we apply a three-year "moving barrier" for company profiles published by FLUX magazine and distributed by Cairn. All texts published before this date are freely accessible, while more recent ones can be accessed via FLUX (print version) or Cairn (electronic version). Articles published before the January-March 2001 issue of Flux are available on Persée.

• JCDecaux and Clear Channel Outdoor – Maxime Huré

• Family conglomerates (5) – Ayala Corporation – Dominique Lorrain and Morgan Mouton

• Family conglomerates (4) – Salim group – Dominique Lorrain

• Family conglomerates (3) – Suharto & Co – Dominique Lorrain

• Family conglomerates (2) – "The Four Sisters" – Alvaro Artigas

• Family conglomerates (1) – Odebrecht – Flux, No. 99, January-March 2015, pp. 59-69, Alvaro Artigas

• ESKOM Holdings SOC Limited – Sylvy Jaglin and Alain Dubresson

• Port hubs (3): Operator strategies on the West African coast – Flux, No. 97/98, July-December 2014, pp. 110-117, Jean Debrie

• The energy transition – 2 – Flux, No. 96, April-June 2014, pp. 61-72, Christophe Defeuilley

• The energy transition – 1 – Flux, No. 95, January-March 2014, pp. 65-76, Christophe Defeuilley

• Logistics real estate companies – 2 – Flux, No. 93/94, July-December 2013, pp. 91-103, Nicolas Raimbault

• Logistics real estate companies – 1 – Flux, No. 92, April-June 2013, pp. 62-74, Nicolas Raimbault

• The New River Company – Flux, No. 91, January-March 2013, pp. 56-65, Christophe Defeuilley – First experience of a private drinking water company

• A.P. Møller: world leader in maritime transport – Flux, No. 88, April-June 2012, pp. 60-70, Antoine Frémont

• Port hubs (1): Major global operators – Flux, No. 87, January-March 2012, pp. 63-72, Jean Debrie

• French REITs: Foncière des Régions and Unibail-Rodamco – Flux, No. 85/86, July-December 2011, 89-104. (C. Boisnier) – Two publicly traded investment companies

• Hub 4: the strategies of Fraport AG and Aéroport de Paris – Flux, No. 84, April-June 2011, pp. 73-89. (C. Halpern) – Fourth article on airport operators devoted to the two continental majors.

• Hub 3: Has airport management changed in nature? BAA plc – Flux, No. 83, January-March 2011, 68-82. (C. Halpern) – Third article on airport operators, devoted to the British operator BAA

• Blue red chips: water companies in China – Flux, No. 82, October-December 2010, 64-80. (D. Lorrain). – The emergence of private water companies in China with three origins: municipal companies, financial conglomerates, and new entrants

• Macquarie: a bank in infrastructure – Flux, No. 81, July-September 2010, 67-78. (D. Lorrain). – Second article on airport operators: Australian bank Macquarie

• Hub (airports and ports). Ferrovial/BAA: one transaction too many? – Flux, No. 79/80, January-June 2010, 140-152. (C. Halpern, D. Lorrain) – ^First part of a series on airport operators: general positioning, history of the takeover of BAA (the British operator) by Ferrovial (the Spanish construction group).

• Natural gas in Europe (3). Centrica – Flux, No. 78, October-December 2009, 89-99. (C. Defeuilley) – ^Third part of an analysis of the European gas sector: the British group Centrica.

• Natural gas in Europe (2). Gazprom – Flux, No. 76/77, April-September 2009, 126-134. (C. Defeuilley) – Part 2 of an analysis of the European gas sector: Gazprom.

• Natural gas in Europe (1). Between market liberalization and geopolitics – Flux, No. 75, January-March 2009, 99-11. (C. Defeuilley) – Part 1 of an analysis of the European gas sector: overview and main groups

• The finance industry and infrastructure (2): private investment funds – Flux, No. 72/73, April-September 2008, 138-151. (D. Lorrain). – Second article in a series, presenting the KKR and Cerberus funds, a timeline of the financial crisis, and an assessment of the impact of private equity on infrastructure

• The finance industry and infrastructure (1): private investment funds – Flux, No. 71, January-March 2008, 78-91. (D. Lorrain). – Discussion of the industrial model of private equity funds and presentation of Blackstone, Carlyle, Apollo Management

• Major Spanish real estate developers – Flux, No. 70, October-December 2007, 74-87. (J. Pollard). – The real estate sector in Spain and presentation of Metrovacesa, Vallehermoso, Fadesa, Immobiliaria Urbis

• Major French real estate developers – Flux, No. 69, July-September 2007, 94-108. (J. Pollard) – Overview of the sector in France and five developers: Nexity, Bouygues Immobilier, Meunier Promotion, Icade, Promogim

• England: from the real estate boom to PFI – Flux No. 68, April-June 2007, 81-99. (D. Lorrain). – Fourth article in a series devoted to changes in the construction sector in Europe. Presents PFI and the Balfour Beatty, Amec, and Carillion groups

• Spanish construction groups (motorways 3) – Flux No. 66-67, March 2007, 149-162. (D. Lorrain) – Construction in Spain and the ACS-Dragados, Ferrovial, FCC, and Acciona groups.

• German construction groups (motorways 2) – Flux No. 63-64, January-June 2006, 75-84. (D. Lorrain) – Second in a series devoted to the evolution of major European construction groups towards services, presents Hochtief, Strabag, Bilfinger und Berger

• Motorways in Europe (1) – Flux No. 62, October-December 2005, 58-74. (D. Lorrain). – Series that began with the privatization of French motorways and its protagonists: Autostrade, Abertis, Brisa, Macquarie

• Enel and Scottish Power. European utilities (1) – Flux No. 60/61, April-September 2005, 105-115. (C. Defeuilley, D. Lorrain) – The multi-utility strategy of two European electricity companies (Enel, Scottish Power) and the refocusing of 2002/03 under pressure from the financial markets

• Exelon: the return of Samuel Insull's empire? – Flux No. 59, January-March 2005, 68-75. (C. Defeuilley). – Second article devoted to the electricity sector in the United States: profile of Exelon, the large Chicago-based group

• Singapore Inc. – Flux No. 58, October-December 2004, 85-96. (D. Lorrain) – The combination of a state that intervenes in urban affairs and private companies: Jurong Town Corp., SembCorp., CapitaLand, Keppel, Port of Singapore Authority

• The electricity sector in the United States (1) – Flux No. 56/57, April-September 2004, 112-126. (C. Defeuilley) – Deregulation of the electricity sector in the United States and its impact on a number of companies: Duke Energy, TXU, AES

• Hitachi, a Japanese environmental industrialist (2) – Flux No. 55, January-March 2004, 60-72. (D. Lorrain).

• The fall of Andersen – Flux No. 51, January-March 2003, 75-82. (N. May)

• Japanese environmental manufacturers (1) – Flux No. 50, December 2002, 80-90. (D. Lorrain) – The industrial and technical approach to urban issues in Japan. Overview of major groups: Kubota, Ebara, Kurita, Chiyoda, JGC, Toyo, TSK, Nippon Steel, NKK, Kobe Steel, KHI, IHI.

• Waste Management: American waste companies (2) – Flux No. 48-49, April-September 2002, 107-121. (D. Lorrain)

• Enron – Flux No. 46, October-December 2001, 76-84. (C. Defeuilley)

• Fiat – Flux No. 44-45, September 2001, 99-107. (D. Lorrain) – Starting with EDF's entry into Italy with Montedison, this article presents the history of the Fiat group and its "urban" activities.

• American waste management companies (1) – Flux No. 43, January-March 2001, 73-84. (D. Lorrain) – Portrait of a sector and its offerings: Waste Management, Allied-BFI, Superior Services, Laidlaw-Safety Kleen, Ogden, Philip Services.

• Thames Water and Kelda Group (British water companies) – Flux No. 41, July-October 2000, 71-84. (D. Lorrain) – Ten years after the privatization of the water sector.

• RWE (German electricity companies) – Flux No. 39-40, June 2000, 94-103. (D. Lorrain)

• Bechtel – Flux No. 38, October 1999, 72-78. (D. Lorrain) – A leading figure in American engineering and its "urban" activities

• Cheung Kong – Flux No. 36-37, July 1999, 61-66. (D. Lorrain) – A brief history of the large Hong Kong group created by Mr. Li Ka-shing: Cheung Kong Holdings, Hutchison Whampoa

Other references on major firms

• The discreet hand: global finance in the city (D. Lorrain) – Revue française de science politique, vol. 61, no. 6, pp. 1097-1122
• The local-global firm: Lyonnaise des Eaux, 1980-2004 (D. Lorrain) – Sociology of Work, vol. 49, 2007 (5)
• The local-global firm, (Lyonnaise des Eaux: 1980-2004) (D. Lorrain) – Sociology of Work, vol. 47 (3) 2005, 340-361
• The dynamics of French urban services companies (C. Defeuilley) – Entreprises et Histoire, no. 38, June 2005, 96-108
• Large Groups and the City – Entreprises et Histoire, Special Report, No. 30, 2002 – Articles on CGE, SAE, urban groups in Singapore, transport companies in Brazil, Enron, AT&T

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Flux

Persée: articles up to January-March 2001

Cairn: articles from January-March 2001 onwards

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"What does mobility do to urban worlds? Infrastructure, architecture, technology, images, practices: for those interested in the future of cities, their past and their present, the imagination is a fertile field of understanding. By scrutinizing objects, languages, devices, and their multiple appearances, Anne Jarrigeon and Nathalie Roseau explore, through the imagination, one of the most powerful driving forces of contemporary experience, one of its inseparable conditions: mobility. A book with two voices, Condition mobile crosses temporalities and disciplines: urban ethnology, visual anthropology, and semiotics for Anne Jarrigeon; architecture, urban planning, and history for Nathalie Roseau.

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"What if we listened seriously to what ordinary city dwellers have to say? This is the approach taken in this issue, which focuses on a collection of written complaints that have the city as their setting but also as their subject. What do these quiet protests tell us? To what extent do they inform us about the fabric of the city? These unusual sources, which are valuable material for historians, provide valuable and unique insights into the social and material transformations of urban environments. This is demonstrated by each of the studies brought together here."

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"Digital Diplomacy and Political Influence Strategies" – Issue coordinated by Inna Lyubareva and Julien Nocetti.

Summary of the dossier:

• Digital Diplomacy and Political Influence Strategy. The Evolution of Diplomatic and Influence Strategies in the Digital Age. By Inna Lyubareva and Julien Nocetti

• China Global Television Network French, (digital) television as an instrument of Chinese "political warfare." By Sébastien Palla

• Sino-Pakistani digital diplomacy. Study of a joint information maneuvering mechanism. By Nowmay Opalinski

• Under the radar. Crisis, restructuring, and clandestinization of Russia's information influence apparatus after the invasion of Ukraine. By Maxime Audinet and Colin Gérard

• The Ukrainian "information shield." Infrastructuring digital sovereignty practices. By Louis Pétiniaud

• The national roots of a multinational corporation. Google's recruitment and adaptation to the French sphere of influence (2002-2012). By Charles Thibout

• Facebook as a player in international relations. A study of Internet.org, its project to connect the world. By Tristan Mattelart

Miscellaneous:

• Digital data, the new sinews of war? The emergence of a military market for artificial intelligence in France. By Alina Surubaru

• Three theories of surveillance capitalism: control, exploitation, reproduction. By Marc-Antoine Pencolé

Reading notes:

• Geoffrey C. Bowker and Susan Leigh Star, Making Things Happen: The Consequences of Classification, Paris, Éditions de l'EHESS, 2023, 447 p. By Nicolas Dodier

• Lee McGuigan, Selling the American People: Advertising, Optimization, and the Origins of Adtec

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This France Culture program featuring Nathalie Roseau was broadcast on September 27, 2024.

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This opinion piece, written by Nathalie Roseau, was published on September 30, 2024, in Le Monde.

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Our common places. A geography of the contemporary world
Edited by Michel Bussi, Martine Drozdz, and Fabrice Argounès Fayard
Publishing, 2024, 576 p.

Did you know that the 10,000 data centers that store our data consume as much energy as the United Kingdom? That 600 million of us visited a zoo in 2023? That a political party headquarters could be a showcase for a fashion show? That in some Asian countries, gallo dromes and cockfighting are as popular as our stadiums? Could you spend eighteen years in an airport if you became stateless? Or plan your next vacation destination without consulting Instagram? Have you ever looked at your house and imagined that it could be a refuge from the climate crisis?

Alongside Michel Bussi, who swaps his novelist's hat for that of a geographer, Martine Drozdz and Fabrice Argounès have invited around a hundred authors to embark on a surprising and playful Grand Tour, an inventive geography at the heart of our relationship with the world. From Airbnb apartments to village squares, schoolyards to nightclubs, submarines to world fairs, they invite us to explore these common, intimate, or exceptional places, whether mundane or inaccessible.

An adventure that tells our story, from the corner of the street to the ends of the earth.

Publisher's website: here

The book will be presented in the presence of the editors at the Institute of Geography on Friday, September 20, 2024, at 6:00 p.m.
For online reservations: here

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Photographing Greater Paris: A Visual History of Metropolitan Change.
Raphaële Bertho, Sonia Keravel, Frédéric Pousin, Nathalie Roseau
Editions Hermann, 2024, 330 p.

If capturing the big city is no easy task, putting it into images is even more difficult. How can we capture the dynamics of time as it shapes space? How can we grasp something that is in motion, multifaceted, and immense? This book posits that we cannot understand the history of Greater Paris—social, architectural, urban, landscape, political—and its development without understanding the images that this history has produced and the various purposes for which they were created, interpreted, publicized, and preserved. At the crossroads of several segments of the history of the big city, the 13 studies that make up this book contribute to writing a history of photography of metropolitan change while questioning the representability of a metropolis in perpetual evolution.

Publisher's website

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"Going green through digital technology?" This issue is coordinated by Sylvain Parasie and Sébastien Shulz.

Available online at Cairn.info: https://www.cairn.info/revue-reseaux-2024-2.htm

Summary of the dossier:

• Digital technology at the service of ecological transition? An overview of social science research.
  Sylvain Parasie, Sébastien Shulz
• Challenging pollution around the corner. Forms of criticism within a network of micro-sensors for air pollution.
  Jean-Baptiste Garrocq
• Soil carbon and its audience. The Aldo tool in the service of local climate policy?
  Robin Leclerc
• Precision agriculture and environmental change. An investigation into the epistemology of a digital data-driven agricultural model.
  Jeanne Oui
• Peasant e-commerce platforms in China. An ethnographic investigation into a digital "return to the land."
  Jean Tassin
• The commercialization of carpooling in France. How policies to make mobility greener are promoting platform capitalism.
  Sébastien Shulz
• The politicization of the smallest part. Tensions between low-tech and high-tech in small, self-built wind turbine
  communities. Aurélien Béranger

Miscellaneous

• Dissemination and reception-appropriation of body standards on the internet. The case of yoga on Instagram.
  Eléonore Affre-Garcia, Pierre Bataille, Mélie Fraysse, Delphine Rizzardi
• Being part of Twitter. Political communication by members of the 15th legislature.
  Camille Beaurepaire, Yvan Boude, Avner Bar-Hen

Reading notes

• Anaïs THEVIOT (ed.), Governing by data? Towards a political sociology of digital technology, Lyon, ENS Éditions, coll. "Gouvernement en question(s)", 2023, 286 p.
  Serge Proulx
• Cross-reviews. Claudio F. GONZÁLEZ, El gran sueño de China. Tecno-socialismo y capitalismo de Estado, Madrid, Tecnos, 2021, 324 p. Lulu Yilun CHEN, Influence Empire: The Story of Tencent and China’s Tech Ambition, London, Hodder & Stoughton, 2022, 232 p.
  Jean-Paul Simon
• Claire FLÉCHER, À bord des géants des mers. Ethnographie embarquée de la logistique globalisée, Paris, La Découverte, 2023, 221 p.
  Victor-Manuel Afonso Marques

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Energy and climate have become major concerns in France, challenging the government in its role as strategist. How is it approaching this new role? How is it shaping its vision for the future? How is it setting the broad guidelines intended to respond to the challenges of combating climate change and energy transition? These questions are at the heart of this book, which examines the drafting, from 2017 to 2020, of the National Low-Carbon Strategy (SNBC) and the Multi-Year Energy Program (PPE). Based on an in-depth survey of the actors who participated in their development, it offers a unique contribution to the sociology of public administration and decision-making in a field that has yet to be extensively studied. It also identifies a little-known facet of the state's inaction on climate change: the powerlessness of the administration in charge of this issue in France. Relegated to a peripheral position in the bureaucratic hierarchy, with limited staff and resources, no real leverage for action, and little support from politicians, it is struggling to generate the momentum needed to achieve the goal of carbon neutrality by 2050.

François-Mathieu Poupeau presented his book at the Ecole des Ponts ParisTech during the latest edition of the RDV Science&Société (February 14, 2024).
Link to view the presentation

Interview on the website of the Agence d'informations spécialisées (AEF) (news item no. 704639, January 9, 2024)

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