On 15 March 2019, another attack killed 51 people in two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, which was broadcast live for nearly 20 minutes on Facebook. A terrorism imbued with the rhetoric of the far right online, which chooses social networks to create a buzz. To fight against
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It is not only in France that the campaign for the European elections is struggling. The situation is the same in the 28 member states of the European Union. In the United Kingdom, the pro-Brexit section of the electorate finds it difficult to accept the fact that they have to go to the polls,
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Deciding to reconcile contradictions, to bring opposing actors into dialogue and to find multidisciplinary solutions to the inextricable paradoxes of our complexity becomes an ethical imperative for a successful transition of civilization. Indeed, in the age of the anthropocene, our decisions now have an impact on the whole world, all of us, and the world as a whole.
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He's probably the most powerful man in the world. At the head of an empire of more than two billion subjects who worship him daily. But he is also, in recent months, the most disparaged man in the world. His masterpiece, Facebook, seems to have become an uncontrollable monster.
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The relationship between the French and their public services has always had an air of "je t'aime, moi non plus". There are too many, not enough... A troubled relationship with peaks of discontent that can be heard today on every street corner, in every square...
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75 % of jobs today require mastery of digital skills. Job seekers are therefore not all equal when it comes to finding a job. On Wednesday 13 March, Emmaus Connect inaugurated its 12th digital solidarity space in France in Strasbourg, in the presence of Mounir Mahjoubi, Emmaus' Secretary General.
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Digital technology has become the new theatre of international conflicts between states but also with industrial players, as Edward Snowden revealed in his time on the surveillance practiced by the NSA. This is a new challenge facing states, economic actors and citizens themselves,
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Even as crypto-currency rates collapse, Blockchain technology continues to attract attention, particularly from the financial industry. Over the next few years, investment strategies in this technology will continue to grow, particularly in the form of equity investments in young people.
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Human skin tubes to repair burns, mental manipulations, automated creations, killer robots...the technical proposals offer a wealth of possibilities that can turn into a nightmare. Worse, automata coupled to the web install a "digital environment" that could make us die slowly. For it
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All they have to do is look at the news feed of their favourite social network to feel up to date. A title, a picture, a few lines of introduction are enough. When it comes to information, some people are not satisfied with much. They are even more convinced than those who are going to
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You are ready to go on holiday, your luggage is packed, your rooms are booked; there is only one problem: the government has cancelled your tickets. This is happening in China and tens of millions of Chinese people are being punished because their "social credit score" has been "too high".
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Everyone agrees that he is the father of the web. Thirty years ago almost to the day, the internet raised enthusiastic hopes for a better life for all mankind. Today, Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the web, looks at his baby with an
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Ubiquitous in our hyper-connected world, passwords guarantee the security of our personal information online. While they tend to be forgotten on a daily basis, they come back to the forefront with each new mass hack. In the dock, many new technologies, such as biometrics, are now being used to protect personal information.
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On the occasion of the 9th Day without Facebook, this Thursday 28 February, author Thomas Fauré denounces the technological schizophrenia that keeps Europe happy in front of Facebook, despite the thousand revelations that have been made about it. He claims that at the heart of the Old Continent there are the means to invest in
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The social network Facebook celebrated its 15th birthday on February 4th. The role of the platform in spreading hate speech has been the subject of much debate recently. At the heart of the controversy is Myanmar, where Facebook has been used to coerce hundreds of thousands of Rohingya
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Last December, ObSoCo published, in collaboration with Jean-Laurent Cassely (1), a study on young urban working graduates. At the intersection of young, urban, graduate populations and higher socio-professional categories, members of the young creative urban class cumulate (2) a number of socio-demographic traits that make them
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Lately, Facebook has become as clinging as modern art: you either love or hate it. Some of us will use it blindly and unconditionally on a daily basis to publish photos of our recent trips to idyllic places, share memorable moments, even bombard their subscribers with publications on
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We weren't used to seeing pensioners demonstrating, making claims, yet they were there, wearing grey jackets to carry their message. What happened? Why this intrusion into an area of demands traditionally reserved for working people? A look back at the emergence of a new senior consciousness, silver culture, the avant-garde.
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The Yellow Vests crisis has brought to light a deep divide between town and country. The inhabitants of the cities would be opposed to the inhabitants of the fields by different, even antagonistic, lifestyles and socio-economic levels. But does this cleavage correspond to a reality? For Eric Charmes, sociologist
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Essential to the proper functioning of our societies and to their understanding, information is also a consumer product. As part of a market of supply and demand, it sometimes strays from its primary purpose to divert the attention of consumers who are increasingly demanding sensational content. Succeeding in
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