Tag: activism

Deuxième épisode de notre grande saga bédé… Click to enlarge « Go to the previous episode Go to the next episode… read more Mark Zuckerberg et la collectivisation de la plus-value numérique (S01E02)

Le premier épisode d’une série BD qui devrait plaire aux grands comme aux petits… Click to enlarge » Go to… read more La farce du e-G8 et la tragédie du cognitariat (S01E01)

Sur Mediapart, le guru du numérique Nova Spivak a dénoncé l’effort d’embrigadement du Net opéré par l’administration Sarkozy. Invité au… read more e-G8 : la conscience d’un internaute, combien ça coûte ?

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.

La quatrième séance de mon séminaire EHESS Corps et TIC : approches socio-anthropologiques des usages numériques a eu lieu le… read more E-Santé : Résistance, autonomie et environnements apomédiés

Wikileaks pizzas, Wikileaks condoms, Wikileaks dog tee-shirts… Merchandising dissent or just another way to support and fund the new public enemy number 1?

Sage journal Body and Society vol 16, n. 4 is finally out! Pardon my enthusiasm, but this issue features my… read more My article "A History of Virulence" finally published in Body and Society

From viral marketing to computer viruses, the cultural logic of virality permeates the Web. The December 2010 issue of the Sage journal Body & Society will publish my long-awaited 36-page essay “A History of Virulence: The Body and Computer Culture in the 1980s”. The text that follows is the second part of the “author’s cut” version of the article: an archeology of computer-mediated moral panic, autonomist marxist hacking, and AIDS activism.

From viral marketing to computer viruses, the cultural logic of virality permeates the Web. The December 2010 issue of the Sage journal Body & Society will publish my long-awaited 36-page essay “A History of Virulence: The Body and Computer Culture in the 1980s”. The text that follows is the first part of the “author’s cut” version of the article: an archeology of computer-mediated moral panic, autonomist marxist hacking, and AIDS activism. Enjoy.

A database of the most vandalised Wikipedia articles has been released on the Wiki-research mailing list: a useful portrayal of the cultural interests (and cultural biases) of the entire community.