Category: digital humanities

Here’s the translation of my op-ed published in the Sunday, Jan. 19, 2014 edition of the italian newspaper Il Corriere… read more Privacy: the greatest trick Zuckerberg ever pulled

Traduction de l’italien de ma tribune parue dans le quotidien Il Corriere della Sera (supplément “La Lettura”), dimanche 19 janvier… read more Vie privée : la plus belle des ruses de Mark Zuckerberg

We are driven to online participation because “someone is wrong on the Internet”, to tell it like the classic xkcd cartoon, and by the will to prove that we are right. A moral and semantic shift arises when being right stops meaning that the information we contribute is accurate, and starts signifying our inherent righteousness. There is no denying that those very masses described by some as a justice-hungry lynch mob that today rise up against hate speech are not, statistically speaking, immune from racist and HIV/AIDS stigmatizing remarks. For them, the entire Justine Sacco affair can be regarded as a way to reassert some sort of moral upper hand over a random villain.

Pour la séance du 16 décembre 2013 de mon séminaire Étudier les cultures du numérique : approches théoriques et empiriques… read more [Notes] Séminaire EHESS A Dalsuet & S Vial — 'Amitié et manifestation d'autrui : pour une philosophie des réseaux sociaux numériques'

Depuis quelques jours cette nouvelle fait le tour des Internets. Le contenu des Google Hangouts sous surveillance automatisée ? Mystère… read more Google censure les gros mots : une non-nouvelle [Updated 02.12.13]

In the last few months, with a small team of dedicated colleagues from Mines Paristech and Telecom Paristech (all belonging… read more Technologies for Political and Social Innovation: Joint Workshop Stanford / ParisTech (Paris, Dec. 3, 2013)

Lundi 18 novembre 2013 à 17h, a eu lieu la première séance 2013/14 de mon séminaire EHESS Étudier les cultures… read more [Slides] Séminaire EHESS : le rôle des visualisations de données dans la recherche sur les cultures numériques

Dans le cadre de la journée de l’axe Culture de l’IIAC (Institut Interdisciplinaire d’Anthropologie du Contemporain, duquel le Centre Edgar-Morin… read more Programme 2013/14 de mon séminaire EHESS 'Etudier les cultures du numérique'

Today’s CBNA seminar (Hamilton House, University of Greenwich, London) has been a great opportunity to present the datavisualization tools we’ve… read more Network visualizations: how to collect, analyze and create 'heuristic narratives' with data

Dear folks, se siete arrivati qui dopo aver letto l’intervistona che ho fatto con Paola Bacchiddu sull’Espresso del 15 ottobre… read more La nostra vita sui social: un pendolo che oscilla tra sfruttamento e violazione della privacy