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Call for Papers: The digitalization of the social and the socializing of the digital / Appel à communications: La digitalisation du social et la socialisation du digital

> Français International Conference at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, June 7th & 8th, 2012 The “social” as a unique issue – distinct from the state, politics, law or culture – was the central concept around which the new discipline of the social sciences has been formed. For Durkheim, for instance, the social constitutes the […]

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This blog will serve as a kind of public notebook for thoughts, ideas, and discussions around the project “Online Dating – Mediated Communication between Romantic Love and Economic Rationalization”. This three-year sociological research project is a cooperation between the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and the Institute for Social Research, Frankfurt/M., Germany, and is funded by […]