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In L'Ecole des Fans, Gérard Wormser questions the communicative dimensions of contemporary disruptions. The immense opportunities of trade and knowledge access contrast with the frustrations that are growing in human communities — which are more technical and unequal than ever before. Universal connectivity comes with abrupt breaks in traditional integration links. It abolishes public mediation in favour of a mixture of new possibilities and increasing isolation. Subjected to the pressures that prevail, as their fallout in the US or Brazil shows, the networks fuel fantasy regressions and fear of the Other. At the end of a journey describing the ways in which our networks associate the omnipotence of money with anthropological shocks, Gérard Wormser joins Simmel's intuitions, who had perceived this question more than a century ago.
Keywords: Facebook, Zuckerberg, Sartre, liberté, éthique de l'information, Facebook, Zuckerberg, Sartre, freedom, ethics of information
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Far from being neutral intermediaries, digital creative tools such as Word, Power Point, Facebook, Instagram or Gmail materialize the “mind models” advocated by their creators and owners. From the first works of net art to the “third generation” works of digital literature that are written and published on social platforms, how do the authors negociate with these models? I discuss in this article historical examples (Annie Abrahams, Don’t touch me ; Jean-Pierre Balpe, “Rachel Charlus”) and examples drawn from my own research and creation practice (Böhmische Dörfer, Nouvelles de la Colonie), relying on a techno-semiotic methodology.
Keywords: Réseaux sociaux, Récit, Littérature numérique, Dispositif, Fiction, Interaction, Données, Recherche-création, Modélisation, Social networks, Narrative, Digital literature, Device, Fiction, Interaction, Data, Research-creation, Modelling
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What do the Web and work with youth have in common ? The potential for social action. A recent initiative needs to be more widely known. The Rassemblement de la jeunesse citoyenne (RAJE citoyenne – Assembly of Youth Citizens) is carrying out a social action project around youth advocacy, whether or not the youth are involved in the Auberges du coeur du Québec (Québec federation of youth shelters). What's special about this initiative ? It uses social media not only to inform and raise public awareness, but also to mobilize youth. I carried out this interview with Maxime Boucher and François Labbé because it is important to me that social workers and community workers recognize that social and political networks can be built through the Web.
Keywords: action collective, médias sociaux, Regroupement des Auberges du coeur, jeunes, Québec, collective action, social media, Regroupement des Auberges du coeur, youth, Quebec
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In this article I reflect on a particular Inuit use of the social networking site Facebook: the group called Inuit Hunting Stories of the Day. I focus on two main issues. First, I discuss the logic behind current technologies as conceptualized by Albert Borgmann (e.g., 1984), who states that rather than being neutral tools, modern devices foster a particular “taking-up” with the world that leads to disengagement from community and meaningful practices. Arguing against this view, I discuss how Inuit Hunting Stories of the Day is an example of how the internet and Facebook are appropriated and provide meaningful engagement. Second, I follow anthropologist Claudio Aporta's (2013) notion of ecology of technology and argue that the relationship between technology and Inuit has to be understood within an ecological framework that encompasses the broader context of political, economic, and social change, which are intertwined with the use, appropriation, adoption, and adaptation of technology. Drawing from the ecology of technology perspective, it is my central argument that technology and computer-mediated communication bring proximity to cultural practices, activities, and the land rather than provoking distance and alienation from reality, as commonly expressed in dystopian notions.