Journal•ISSN: 1753-0350
Journal of Cultural Economy
Routledge
About: Journal of Cultural Economy is an academic journal published by Routledge. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Politics & Capitalism. It has an ISSN identifier of 1753-0350. Over the lifetime, 738 publications have been published receiving 10199 citations.
Topics: Politics, Capitalism, Computer science, Performativity, Financial crisis
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TL;DR: The Prince of Networks: Bruno Latour and Metaphysics by Graham Harman as mentioned in this paper is a good book to read in this category of books, but it is not suitable for children.
Abstract: Graham Harman, Prince of Networks: Bruno Latour and Metaphysics, Melbourne, re.press, 2009, 247pp., AUD$40.00 (paperback), ISBN 9780980544060 I finished writing this review while hearing and readin...
261 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the performativity of economics and the embeddedness of the economy in economics do not have the effect of depoliticizing the question of the economic question.
Abstract: Does the thesis of the performativity of economics and the embeddedness of the economy in economics not have the effect of depoliticizing the question of the economy? Does it not implicitly grant e...
256 citations
TL;DR: The Making of Law: An Ethnography of the Conseil d'Etat as discussed by the authors is a classic work on the history of law in the French legal system.
Abstract: Bruno Latour, The Making of Law: An Ethnography of the Conseil d’Etat, Cambridge, Polity Press, 2009, i–xii + 297pp., £18.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-7456-3985-7 For and among us, of all our contemp...
216 citations
TL;DR: Blyth hit a nerve with his ‘austerity’ video in 2010 as discussed by the authors, it's now been viewed nearly 50,000 times according to YouTube. 1 As a follow-up (even addendum, of sorts), his new book Austeri...
Abstract: Obviously Mark Blyth hit a nerve with his ‘austerity’ video in 2010 – it's now been viewed nearly 50,000 times according to YouTube. 1 As a follow-up (even addendum, of sorts), his new book Austeri...
189 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore how a "medium-specific" technique for online data capture may be rendered analytically productive for social research, and demonstrate this point in an exercise of online issue profiling, and more particularly by relying on Twitter to profile the issue of "austerity".
Abstract: What makes scraping methodologically interesting for social and cultural research? This paper seeks to contribute to debates about digital social research by exploring how a ‘medium-specific’ technique for online data capture may be rendered analytically productive for social research. As a device that is currently being imported into social research, scraping has the capacity to re-structure social research, and this in at least two ways. Firstly, as a technique that is not native to social research, scraping risks to introduce ‘alien’ methodological assumptions into social research (such as an pre-occupation with freshness). Secondly, to scrape is to risk importing into our inquiry categories that are prevalent in the social practices enabled by the media: scraping makes available already formatted data for social research. Scraped data, and online social data more generally, tend to come with ‘external’ analytics already built-in. This circumstance is often approached as a ‘problem’ with online data capture, but we propose it may be turned into virtue, insofar as data formats that have currency in the areas under scrutiny may serve as a source of social data themselves. Scraping, we propose, makes it possible to render traffic between the object and process of social research analytically productive. It enables a form of ‘real-time’ social research, in which the formats and life cycles of online data may lend structure to the analytic objects and findings of social research. By way of a conclusion, we demonstrate this point in an exercise of online issue profiling, and more particularly, by relying on Twitter to profile the issue of ‘austerity’. Here we distinguish between two forms of real-time research, those dedicated to monitoring live content (which terms are current?) and those concerned with analysing the liveliness of issues (which topics are happening?).
182 citations