30 January 2025, 18:30-20:30
Research Centre for the Humanities (RCH) – 26, Mandrokleous Str., Neos Kosmos (“Neos Kosmos” Metro Station, exit: E.Pissa)
Organisation: Dr. Giorgos Pertsas, PhD, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens – RCH Fellow
Data Rules. Reinventing the Market Economy
by Cristina Alaimo and Jannis Kallinikos
(The MIT Press, 2024)
Speakers:
- Cristina Alaimo | Associate Professor, ESSEC Business School, Paris
- Jannis Kallinikos | Full Professor of Organization Studies & the CISCO Chair in Digital Transformation and Data Driven Innovation, LUISS University, Rome
A new social science framework for studying the unprecedented social and economic restructuring driven by digital data.
Digital data have become the critical frontier where emerging economic practices and organizational forms confront the traditional economic order and its institutions. In Data Rules, Cristina Alaimo and Jannis Kallinikos establish a social science framework for analyzing the unprecedented social and economic restructuring brought about by data. Working at the intersection of information systems and organizational studies, they draw extensively on intellectual currents in sociology, semiotics, cognitive science and technology, and social theory. Making the case for turning the study of data into an area of inquiry of its own, the authors uncover how data are deeply implicated in rewiring the institutions of the market economy.