The economy of qualities

Callon, Michel; Méadel, Cécile; Rabeharisoa, Vololona

doi:10.1080/03085140220123126

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“…Kopytoff (1986) and Callon et al (2002) propose different explanations of singularising, of settling an entity into a particular set of qualities in anticipation of its use, such that it may be moved along as a gift or an exchange. Kopytoff investigates the overlapping practices of commoditising and singularising:…”

Section: Conduits In Short-form In Waste Managementmentioning

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The performativity of sustainability: making a conduit a marketing device

Finch

Horan²,

Reid

2014

Journal of Marketing Management

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This paper examines how a conduit, as a 'working infrastructure' with material and social qualities, shapes and connects the business and practices of sustainable waste management. Conduits have had a prominent but passive role in explanations of food leftovers within households. We show that a conduit, as an assemblage of investments and practices among interested actors, requires and allows for the further economisation and calculation of waste management. Conduits shape business-to-business exchanges and relationships, deriving demand across domains of exchange and managing risks to the continuation of industrial processes. They resist singular stewardship, instead allowing multiple actors to recognise their interdependence and contest the development of facilities and services. Marketing communications form an important dimension of the conduit, albeit distributed across different parts of the conduit, in aligning actors' practices of sorting and 'moving things along' at and between locations.

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Section: Conduits In Short-form In Waste Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

The performativity of sustainability: making a conduit a marketing device

Finch

Horan²,

Reid

2014

Journal of Marketing Management

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“…Technological equipment should also be considered as consisting of devices that construct a particular kind of reality by means of inscription. Therefore, we could think of technological equipment in research activities as socio-technical devices: devices that let us think of research in terms of a distribution between the scholar and his or her situation, for the device (situated in an environment) is an active co-constructer of the research taking place (Callon et al, 2002). However, such divisions should be handled with caution.…”

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The Contrivance of Mobile Learning: An Actor-Network Perspective on the Emergence of a Research Field

Decuypère

Simons

Masschelein

2011

E-Learning and Digital Media

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The ongoing development of mobile devices like cell phones, iPods, PDAs, and so on is seen by an increasing number of educationalists as a chance to focus on a new kind of learning. This mobile learning, as it is called, should enable students to learn while on the move. Rather than giving a genealogy of the use of mobile equipment in education, this article tries to add understanding to the processes that made possible the emergence of this new research domain. In doing this, the authors use one specific theoretical approach, actor-network theory, which will lead to a profound elaboration of the processes involved in new, emerging research fields.

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“…But even these transformations are grounded in the resources they perform. Following this, Callon's work treats markets and consumption activities as hybrid mixtures of people and things that constitute 'value' and 'preferences' from within their own interactions (see Callon, 2005;Callon, Méadel, & Rabeharisoa, 2002). In doing so, it builds upon his earlier contributions to the Pre--publication version of Cluley, R. and S.D.…”

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The dividualised consumer: sketching the new mask of the consumer

Cluley¹,

Brown²

2014

Journal of Marketing Management

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Recent online marketing innovations such as ad--servers, ad--networks and ad--exchanges allow marketers to extract value from consumer data in new ways. But these new market devices just do not exploit technological innovations. They are constructed around a revolutionary new mask of the consumer. They treat consumers not as fixed individuals but as dividualised 10 consumers -that is to say, collections of data that can be exposed, dissected and segmented into new marketable groups. After sketching out how marketing devices and theories have worked to define new marketplace behaviours, the paper turns to Deleuze's explanation of control societies to consider the social implications of these new marketing techniques within societies that are 15 increasingly mediated through networked relationships.

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The economy of qualities

Cited by 1,159 publications

References 9 publications

The performativity of sustainability: making a conduit a marketing device

The performativity of sustainability: making a conduit a marketing device

The Contrivance of Mobile Learning: An Actor-Network Perspective on the Emergence of a Research Field

The dividualised consumer: sketching the new mask of the consumer

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