The Performance Complex

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The Performance Complex is written by David Stark and published by Oxford University Press (UK). It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0198861664 (ISBN 10) and 9780198861669 (ISBN 13).

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.