Quantification: Keeping Score in a Metric Society
In the second session in our webinar series, jointly organized by Swiss Re Institute, IBM Research, and Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute, two experts will discuss how life and society are increasingly governed by numbers and how this quantification is related to societal trust.
Speakers
Steffen Mau
Germany
Professor of Macrosociology at Humboldt University of Berlin. Mau works in the fields of comparative welfare research, social inequality, and European integration. In his most recent book “The Metric Society: On the Quantification of the Social”, Mau shows how metrics have become a form of social conditioning and how the rise of quantification has strengthened social hierarchies.
Jakub Samochowiec
Switzerland
Jakub Samochowiec is a Senior Researcher at the GDI Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute. He analyses social, economic, and technological changes with a focus on decision, old age, media and consumption.
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