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Empowered patients, greedy pharmacoms and the coming 'eHealth divide'

Patient empowerment via online medicine represent a business opportunity for pharmaceutical companies. How to avoid the coming “eHealth divide” between those who have access to quality online information about available cures – and those who are prey of Big Pharma disinformation.

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Doctoring Fukushima: from nuclear catastrophe to natural bodily function

In the wake of the Fukushima nuclear accident, an interesting video has been circulating. Disguised as an educational animation targeting… read more Doctoring Fukushima: from nuclear catastrophe to natural bodily function

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What is medicine all about? Staring at screens

Recently, the New York Times’s blog dealing with health and medicine, Well, featured an interesting piece on Desktop medicine. The… read more What is medicine all about? Staring at screens

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"L'homme transcendé" de l'artiste japonais Suguru Goto (31 mars 2011)

Au Cube d’Issy-les-Moulineaux, une performance artistique pour explorer l’extension des potentialités dans la relation homme-machine : l’interaction entre les images… read more "L'homme transcendé" de l'artiste japonais Suguru Goto (31 mars 2011)

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Consider submitting your paper to "Analytical Sociology at Work" (deadline April 1, 2011)

“Analytical Sociology at Work”, the Fourth Conference of the European Network of Analytical Sociologists (ENAS), will take place at the… read more Consider submitting your paper to "Analytical Sociology at Work" (deadline April 1, 2011)

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Is "I google you" the new "I love you"?

Love is a rose-dot on the ‘i’ of ‘I google you’.

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Le ‘droit de jouissance’ dans la culture du numérique : objets et représentations du netporn (slides)

Slides du séminaire EHESS ‘Corps et TIC : approches socio-anthropologiques des usages numériques’ (24 févr. 2011) : porno participatif, ses articulations avec le Web 2.0.

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Bums, bridges, and primates: Some elements for a sociology of online interactions

What kind of social structures Web users contribute to put in place? And what do monkeys have to do with it? Text presented at the conference “Web Culture: New Modes of Knowledge, New Sociabilities”, Villa Gillet, Lyon (France), February 10th, 2011.

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My networked Valentine: half a century of love and computers

St Valentine special: half a century of songs about communication technologies and how we vest them with our quest for love.

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Le corps dans les réseaux sociaux : technologie du soi, technologie du nous (slides)

Slides de la cinquième séance du séminaire EHESS ‘Corps et TIC : approches socio-anthropologiques des usages numériques’ (vendredi 11 févr. 2011).