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Following in Judith Donath and dana boyd’s researches on online friendship and drawing on social network analysis of tie formation, this Hui-Jung Chang article sets up to detect cross-cultural variations in ‘friending’ between a US-based service (Myspace) and a Taiwan one (Wretch).

By now, you’re all way too familiar with the Egyptian Facebook activism. And everybody and his sister has spent the last year-and-a-half discussing how wrong was Malcolm Gladwell in dismissing Moldovan Twitter activism. And millions of you have smiled at Gaddafi’s crazy rant against Tunisian Wikileaks activism. But I’m sure the notion of Avatar activism appeals to a more restricted audience.

J’interviendrai lors de ces deux journées d’études organisées par Georges Vigarello, Sylvie Roques et Christian Biet.  Voilà pour l’instant l’argumentaire… read more Colloque Performance, théâtre, anthropologie (INHA/EHESS, 24-25 mai 2011)

Patient empowerment via online medicine represent a business opportunity for pharmaceutical companies. How to avoid the coming “eHealth divide” between those who have access to quality online information about available cures – and those who are prey of Big Pharma disinformation.

In the wake of the Fukushima nuclear accident, an interesting video has been circulating. Disguised as an educational animation targeting… read more Doctoring Fukushima: from nuclear catastrophe to natural bodily function

Recently, the New York Times’s blog dealing with health and medicine, Well, featured an interesting piece on Desktop medicine. The… read more What is medicine all about? Staring at screens

Au Cube d’Issy-les-Moulineaux, une performance artistique pour explorer l’extension des potentialités dans la relation homme-machine : l’interaction entre les images… read more "L'homme transcendé" de l'artiste japonais Suguru Goto (31 mars 2011)

“Analytical Sociology at Work”, the Fourth Conference of the European Network of Analytical Sociologists (ENAS), will take place at the… read more Consider submitting your paper to "Analytical Sociology at Work" (deadline April 1, 2011)

Love is a rose-dot on the ‘i’ of ‘I google you’.

Slides du séminaire EHESS ‘Corps et TIC : approches socio-anthropologiques des usages numériques’ (24 févr. 2011) : porno participatif, ses articulations avec le Web 2.0.