Category: Blog

Au hasard de mes explorations en ligne, je découvre Snob.ru, service de réseautage pour “l’élite de la société russe”. Tout… read more Snob.ru : distinction 2.0 ou inégalité en réseau ?

SOPA: an iniquitous piece of legislation defeated by a 7 million-strong Google petition and a spectacular 24-hour blackout… But what is the role of lobbying in this story ?

Dans le cadre de mon séminaire EHESS Étudier les cultures du numérique : approches théoriques et empiriques, j’ai eu le… read more Slides séminaire de Jérôme Denis : Villes, infrastructures et #opendata (EHESS, 18 janv. 2012)

I’m serious: the marxiste célèbre and #Occupy Wall Street avuncular philosopher Slavoj Žižek is really a funny man. Case in point,… read more One of the greatest comedians of our time: Slavoj Žižek

New year, new issue of the online journal Fast Capitalism. This is a special one, with a special section on… read more What’s holding back Digital Sociology?

An Occupy-affiliated group, We All Occupy, has been concocting a database of over 1300 geocoded Occupy locations and putting them on a map! For all of your activist/data journalist/citizen journalist pleasure.

For the sake of knowledge and democracy, let doubt and lack of information prevail! At least these are the surprising results of two recently published scientific articles…

Pre-release video of Evgeny Morozov’s keynote speech Marriage From Hell: On the Secret Love Affair Between Dictators and Western Technology Companies delivered on dec. 27th, 2011 at the 28c3, 28th Chaos Communication Congress “Behind Enemy Lines”.

Séminaire EHESS d’Olivier Mauco “Idéologie des jeux vidéo d’action” : un état de l’art des lectures de l’idéologie appliquées au medium vidéoludique, en prenant pour cas d’étude les jeux Pac-man et Grand Theft Auto IV (GTA IV). Mercredi 14 décembre 2011, de 17h à 19h, Salle du conseil B, R -1, bât. Le France, 190-198 av de France 75013 Paris.

The Federal Trade Commission sentences Twitter and Facebook to (respectively) 10 and 20 years of privacy-related audits. ‘If Athens cries, Sparta does not laugh’, the old saying goes.