ANNOUNCEMENTS
Book News
Markets and the Arts of Attachment IN PRESS
Forthcoming edited collection featuring chapters by Michel Callon, Hans Kjellberg, Tomas Ariztia, Carolyn Gerlitz, Jose Ossandon, Emmanuel Kessous, Alexandre Mallard and the editors in press ... at last
Job news
Lecturer in Sociology (digital sociology / sociology of the digital specialism)
New fixed term lectureship at the Open University, with a digital sociology specialism
Call for papers
Design, Sound and Vision in Midcentury Media
Call for submissions to 'Design, Sound and Vision in Midcentury Media', the 8th Kern Conference on Visual Communication due to take place at Rochester Institute of Technology in April 2018. Abstracts by January 15, 2018
Call for Papers
Special issue on Digitalized Markets
Call for papers for a Special Issue of Consumption Markets and Culture on 'Digitalized Consumption', guest edited by Johan Hagberg and Hans Kjellberg. Deadline 15th Dec
Publication news
New IMTFI blog series on demonetization in India
Introducing a new blog series on demonetisation in India, written by fellows of the Institute for Money, Technology & Financial Inclusion
Events
Science.Knowledge.[E]Valuation: Workshop at The University of Warwick
A call for participation in a workshop at Warwick, with speakers including Michèle Lamont, David Stark, Claude Rosenthal, Steve Fuller, Johannes Angermuller, Juliane Reinecke, Noortje Marres, Julian Hamann, and Yuval Millo.
Call for Papers
New Economic Sociology and Sociology: Where Do They Meet? Where Do They Diverge?
Call for papers for workshop in Warsaw in May 2017, featuring guest speakers Patrik Aspers and Andrzej Rychard. The event is titled 'New Economic Sociology and Sociology: Where Do They Meet? Where Do They Diverge?'. Deadline for Abstracts: December 10.FEATURED
The CFRM Toolkit: Methods for understanding consumers in a changing world of finance
Consumer finance globally is undergoing a process of rapid change. How can we adapt our research methods to understand changing consumer behaviour? The newly-launched CFRM Toolkit reviews cutting-edge methods in consumer finance research.
On Bowie theory and Bowie bonds
Andrew Leyshon on David Bowie's smart take on the major changes to the industry his career coincided with
The GAY-TM: How to make a splash with cash dispensers
Bernardo Batiz-Lazo looks at the 'GAY-TM' campaign at this year's Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, which transformed usually dull and unnoticed ATMs into something much more colourful and visible
Mobile money aesthetics: Text, display, and the cultural logics of concealment
Erin Taylor looks at the promises and practicalities of mobile money, drawing on a chapter published in The Routledge Companion to Mobile Media (2014)
New Ernest Dichter online archive
Stefan Schwarzkopf highlights the launch of a fascinating archive of all the market and consumer research reports compiled by the famous (and notorious) motivation researcher Ernest Dichter between 1935 and the 1980s
