"Propagations" - by Dominique Boullier

The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted how deeply the processes of propagation affect our lives. But it also reveals how information, instructions, and rumors spread. In his latest book, Propagations: Un nouveau paradigme pour les sciences sociales (Armand Colin, 2023), Dominique Boullier, professor of sociology, demonstrates the fertility of an approach to societies from the perspective of propagation, alongside the traditional analysis of social structures and individual preferences. In upcoming videos, Dominique Boullier will detail, for example, how the study of digital traces provides a new perspective on societies, the advent of a third era of quantification for social sciences, and how to manage crises in the age of propagations.

Video recorded on February 2023.