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Adam Hayes @adam-hayes.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

New paper out in Journal of Business Research w/ @lenapell.bsky.social .. We show how uncertainty regarding counterfeits in secondhand luxury markets has spillover effects on primary markets - extending Akerlof's lemons 🍋⌚ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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The upside of uncertainty: how counterfeit risk in secondary markets influences primary luxury sales

The rise of digital resale platforms has reshaped the global luxury goods market, creating opportunities for pre-owned luxury transactions while intro…

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Lena Pellandini-Simanyi @lenapell.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

New OA paper "Scripting the habitus: How financial devices prefigure class differences" with Cristina Paradiso and Robert Musil on how the scripts of platforms targeted at different social classes contribute class differences in finance. Funded by the @snsf.ch www.socio-journal.ch/article/view...

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Lena Pellandini-Simanyi @lenapell.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Registration is now open for PhD/postdocs to the course "Performativity and post-humanist traditions (ANT, STS)" (3ECTS) taught by Prof. Donald MacKenzie (University of Edinburgh) and me. The first part of the course will be in Lugano, 8-10 Sept, the rest online. www.usi.ch/en/education...

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Performativity and post-humanist traditions (ANT, STS)

Register Now! Instructors Prof. Donald MacKenzie (University of Edinburgh) Prof. Léna Pellandini-Simanyi (Università della Svizzera italiana) Description This course introduces students to the po...

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

The UK would now want to rejoin the EU by 55% to 33% Removing those that don’t know - that’s a 62.5% to 37.5% breakdown.

Screenshot of polling data from Jan 2025

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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I have a new (open access) article in @theoryculturesociety.org 'Another age of anxiety: psychological distress and the 'asset economy'', on how the understanding of anxiety has changed, and some of the broader conditions of its recent resurgence

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Lena Pellandini-Simanyi @lenapell.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

CfP conf 🌴Lugano, Sept 4-5, 2025 🧮 “From Classes to Classifications: How new (and old) systems of ranking, scoring, segmentation and matching shape social groups and markets” ✨Keynote @drgiesler.bsky.social, @karenpylai.bsky.social &Donald MacKenzie www.digital-transformation.usi.ch/en/dt/partic...

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Conferences

Call for Papers“Classes to Classifications: How new (and old) systems of ranking, scoring, segmentation and matching shape social groups and markets”Interim Conference of the Swiss Sociological Associ...

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Lena Pellandini-Simanyi @lenapell.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Current @snsf_ch project: how different social classes use digital finance apps - and how these apps contribute to social class differences: "Social patterning of economic subjectivities and the digital transformation of retail finance in Switzerland"

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