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05.12.2024
Is Digital Technology Democratic? The Latest Issue of "Understanding Our Times"
Understanding Our Times is edited and published by Sciences Po to shed light on major contemporary issues and inform public and private decision makers. This cross-disciplinary editorial creation embodies the excellence of Sciences Po research and our ambition to propose a renewed vision of the digital age, based in particular on European values.
This second issue edited by Jean-Philippe Cointet, director of the Open Institute for Digital Transformations and researcher at the médialab, features the analyses of about twenty researchers. They dissect the harmful effects of virality on our public space and formulate methods for countering them, measure the influence of social networks on media coverage of news stories, give the European lawmakers ideas for regulating platforms, and question the democratic impact of recent developments in AI.
« Sciences Po places the issues of technological and digital transformations at the heart of its research and training work to prepare future generations for the consequences of social networking, the rising prevalence of digital technology and the fast-paced advance of artificial intelligence. »
Luis Vassy
President of Sciences Po
> Discover the table of contents of the issue “Is Digital Democracy Democratic?”:
DEBATE SECTION
- The internet let us hear the voices of society, debate between Julia Cagé and Dominique Cardon
WIDE ANGLE SECTION
- All the harm virality is inflicting on democracy, by Dominique Boullier
- Does Facebook make us happy? by Kevin Arceneaux
- The politicisation of news stories on social networks, by Sylvain Parasie, Antoine Machut and Béatrice Mazoyer
- Combating misinformation on social media, by Émeric Henry
- Bridging the Generative AI gap, by Jen Schradie
- European law and algorithmic bias, Interview with Raphaële Xenidis
- Using digital traces to enforce platform regulation, by Pedro Ramaciotti, Jean-Philippe Cointet and Tim Faverjon
- Artificial intelligence and intelligent choices, by Bernard Reber
FOCUS SECTION
- Oligopoly warning for the digital economy, by Sarah Guillou
- A hashtag against agribashing, by Sylvain Brunier and Baptiste Kotras
- Algorithmic art: why not? Interview with Laurence Bertrand Dorléac
BOOK REVIEW SECTION
- Digital technology is a culture by Ismaël El Bou-Cottereau
INFOGRAPHICS SECTION
- Digital technology in numbers with Sciences Po's cartography service
PROFILE SECTION
- Louise Beaumais: A researcher between data and geopolitics by Ismaël El Bou-Cottereau
LOOKING BACK SECTION
- So far, so near: the creation of the médialab by Hélène Naudet
- Guy Michelat's astonishing scalogram by Nonna Mayer
TEACHING AND LEARNING SECTION
- Universities and artificial intelligence: an educational revolution in the making?, by Ismaël El Bou-Cottereau
GUEST VIEW SECTION
- Inclusion of women: a challenge for esports, by Nicolas Maurer
