The performance complex: competition and competitions in social life

The performance complex / David Stark -- Pick the winner, so you can then choose the reasons: epistemic dissonance in architecture competitions / Kristian Kreiner -- Competition and consecration in the world press photo awards / Marco Solaroli -- Classical music competitions as complex performances...

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Weitere Verfasser: Stark, David 1950- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford, United Kingdom Oxford University Press 2020
Ausgabe:First edition
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Zusammenfassung:The performance complex / David Stark -- Pick the winner, so you can then choose the reasons: epistemic dissonance in architecture competitions / Kristian Kreiner -- Competition and consecration in the world press photo awards / Marco Solaroli -- Classical music competitions as complex performances / Lisa McCormick -- Formalized evaluation: the work that rankings do / Wendy Espeland -- What's observed in a rating? Rankings as orientation in the face of uncertainty / Elena Esposito and David Stark -- Crowdsourcing before the smartphone: the Zagat survey's quantification of everyday life in 1980s New York / Will Payne -- Weathering winner-take-all: how rankings constitute competition on webcam sex platforms, and what performers can do about it / Olav Velthuis and Niels van Doorn -- Post-liberal competitions? Pragmatics of gamification and weaponization / William Davies -- What are digital reputation measures worth? The rise and fall of reputation metrics on social media / Dominique Cardon -- Merit, morality, and market: the Chinese social credit experiment / Jonathan Bach -- Performing numbers: musicians and their metrics / Robert Prey -- Business education and anxiety in the performance of value / Fabian Muniesa
An increasing number of activities in everyday life are being evaluated and experienced in terms of performance metrics. This book examines this assemblage of networks of observation -- in which all are performing and keeping score -- and their attendant emotional pathologies across various industries and occupations
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ISBN:9780191893612
DOI:10.1093/oso/9780198861669.001.0001