A digital market for a new society, a digital society for a new market - Marion Fourcade and Kieran Healy, The Ordinal Society (Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2024, 384 p.)
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: It is quite evident to the reader that digitalization is now a ubiquitous feature of modern societies, to the point that the digital is now an inextricable part of our lives, even of our identities.While we recognize that its reach is almost universal, we lack a comprehensive understanding of what that means.Not just regarding the role of social media or apps, but also regarding the digital infrastructure that is hidden from our daily experience or the impact of all this on businesses.Therefore, The Ordinal Society represents an important effort to understand the vast consequences of this transformation.Marion Fourcade and Kieran Healy are renowned scholars in economic sociology, who have written together principally about markets from the perspective of economic sociology.In a sense, this book is an attempt by its authors to bring together the arguments made in their previous papers 1 .In another sense, the book can be considered as part of the effort to understand the impact of digitalization alongside the transformation of capitalism.Readers will therefore find both parallels with other authors addressing the same subject as well as a complementary reading of that subject.From the political issues surrounding the use of personal data, as in Zuboff's The Age of Surveillance Capitalism 2 , to the impact of apps on social life, as in Marie Bergström's The New Laws of Love 3 , to the rise of libertarianism as an ideology in Crack-Up Capitalism by Quinn Slobodian 4 .
Source: European Journal of Sociology
Author: Augusto Díaz Triñanes
Institution: Université Paris Dauphine-PSL
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4404900429