Table of contents of the issue 3-4/2015, July-December
Il potere dei grandi numeri
Saggi e ricerche
Real abstractions and sociological imagination. Transformations of informational basis, social practices and horizons of research
When numbers become large: what can we learn from science
Big numbers, small elites. The power of Big Data and the concentration of power
«What works». On effectiveness and quantification in changing social policies
Data on quantified self as boundary objects. A case study on households' electricity consumption
Evaluation and policy making: the misleading emphasis on soundness
The role of big survey in the educational field. PISA and the government of education through numbers
The «media scenes» of datification. The technoscientific controversy on privacy in Italian newspapers
Quantifying the social use of time and social planning in USSR in the 1920s and the 1960s
Standards in action. The evidence-based medicine between scientific knowledge and medical practice
Interventi
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