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Understanding our times - n°2: Is digital technology democratic? December 2024

This issue of Understanding our times embodies Sciences Po's ambition to offer a renewed vision of the digital age, viewed through the lens of European values. In particular, it examines the impact of digital transformations on our democracies.

FULL N°2

THE DEBATE

The internet lets us hear the voices of society, debate between Julia Cagé and Dominique Cardon

WIDE ANGLE: IS DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY DEMOCRATIC?

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 Emeric 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

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

Digital technology is a culture according to Dominique Cardon

INFOGRAPHICS

Digital technology in numbers

PROFILE

A researcher between data and geopolitics

LOOKING BACK

So far, so near:the creation of the médialab
Guy Michelat’s astonishing scalogram, by Nonna Mayer

TEACHING AND LEARNING

Universities and artificial intelligence: an educational revolution in the making?

GUEST VIEW

Inclusion of women:a challenge for esports by Nicolas Maurer