What's Observed in a Rating? Rankings as Orientation in the Face of Uncertainty

Overview of attention for article published in Theory, Culture & Society, February 2019

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ICYMI: What exactly do ratings and rankings do? How do they feed into uncertainty? Read Elena Esposito and David Stark's…

ICYMI: What exactly do ratings and rankings do? How do they feed into uncertainty? Read Elena Esposito and David Stark's…

What exactly do ratings and rankings do? How do they feed into uncertainty? Read Elena Esposito and David Stark's article in…

What exactly do ratings and rankings do? How do they feed into uncertainty? Read Elena Esposito and David Stark's article in…

What exactly do ratings and rankings do? How do they feed into uncertainty? Read Elena Esposito and David Stark's article in…

What exactly do ratings and rankings do? How do they feed into uncertainty? Read Elena Esposito and David Stark's article in…

"[Rankings] function well enough not because they mirror how things are but because they offer a highly visible reference point…

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