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If the afflatus of computers has marked the activities of archivists, as we are reminded in this issue about the founding of the Archives de la critique d’art (ACA) in 1989, the development of computer technology, and data-processing, has also transformed the practice of art criticism and the activi...

The use of Internet technology has changed the way people interact rendering face-to face and verbal communication a trend of the past. Thus, a new world has been created for young people, who send emails, visit websites, use webcams, chat rooms and instant messaging through social media for communi...

In the field of contemporary Brazilian geography, there is an urgent need to continue studies on the city and the city. This article is an approach to mapping the material in question, related to early days, classic bibliography, and facilitated by the existence of information-based tools and to all...

Compte-rendu de : Information technology and sustainability : essays on the relationship between ICT and sustainable development / Lorenz M. Hilty. - Norderstedt : Books on Demand GmbH, cop. 2008. - 1 vol. (180 p.) : ill., couv. ill. en coul. ; 22 cm. - Bibliogr. en fin de chap. IndexISBN 978-3-8370...

This article brings together some of the initial work on the non-use of the Internet. The first part is essentially conceptual and was presented in 1999, at the time of the peak of the first ‘.com’ site explosion and when expectations about the internet and fears about the digital divide were at the...

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In Isaac Asimov’s Foundation trilogy, written in the 1940s but about the distant future, he describes a device that plays a recording of a 3D moving image with sound. The display device is a glass cube, in which the viewer sees a human figure talking—something like a talking head on television, but...

The impressive growth of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the last decade constitutes a challenge both for social studies on sociability and on ICT usage. It demands to put methodologies and sociological analysis that have mainly been developed for the study of face-to-face intera...

National audience Projects for the development of prosopographic databases are growing significantly thanks to the advent of digital humanities. The main objective of this article is threefold: (1) present a detailed state of the art relating to the prosopographic bases but also to underlying basic...

In the framework of the Congress of the French Sociology Association 2019, this ticket develops the axes of a cross-session between RT 13 (sociology of law and justice) and RT 29 (Science and Technology in Society) proposed and moderated by Valerie Arnhold (doctoral candidate at the Centre for Socio...

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Technology-oriented innovative startups must conduct extensive experiments to gather sufficient proofs of value, so that they may reduce uncertainties before the launch of their products and services on the market. Despite their limited resources, the experiments conducted by startups are often rand...

The fact that the business leaders concerned had from the outset a strong awareness of their delay in terms of technology, managerial know-how, business networks, brands, distribution networks and experienced international managers may have had a major consequence: their determination and strong com...

This dissertation takes as its point of departure the recent renewal of the interest of the Chinese state in agricultural development. The approach of this research is twofold: political and sociological. The political approach focuses on the analysis of agricultural modernization policies between 2...

Digital and virtual communication impacts increasingly upon the management of natural hazards in an uncertain world, challenging the boundaries between science and society. This study uses sociological theory to explore how technology reduces the mitigation failures and conflicts that scholars often...

This MEEF master memory is part of Spanish teaching in the French school system. It addresses the role of digital and in particular interactive platforms in this education. We conducted face-to-face and remote experiences (as part of the pedagogical continuity due to COVID-19) for our students to te...

Technology is, at the transition from secondary school to university, a key accompanying tool to solve some of the difficulties we face. However, its use may, in certain situations, lead to negative effects. Within the range of opportunities that technology offers us as “today’s pupils”, it is cruci...

CoE Technology Domain Workshop on Urban Solutions & Ressource Resilience, Singapore, SINGAPOUR, 11-/03/2016 - 11/03/2016

Immanuel Kant as a protagonist of the digital humanities? If you think this will never happen – well, then you have not heard from the DHd2018 in Cologne, which took place from February 26th to March 2nd. The title of the conference “Kritik der digitalen Vernunft” was applied in many contributions f...

In the aftermath of the “Congress of Digital Humanities in Portugal” (New University of Lisbon, 8-9 October. 2015), the idea is that Humanities research has changed parameters in line with digital technology. At this meeting, which was the first congress on the subject in Portugal and with an intern...

As many science centres or museums, the ship — a science and technology discovery centre, based in Strasbourg — has a Scientific Council: in presenting its operating rules and responsibilities, the author emphasises the role played by this body in defining the institution’s strategic choices and the...