1st Edition
by Éric George (Editor)
Digitalization is a long socio-historic process in which all areas of society's activities are reconfigured.
In
the first volume of Digitalization of Society and Socio-political
Issues, there is an examination of the transformations linked to the
development of digital platforms and social media which affect cultural
and communicational industries. The book also analyzes the formation of
Big Data, their algorithmic processing and the societal changes which
result from them (social monitoring and control in particular). Through
diverse critical reflections, it equally presents different ways that
digital participates in relations of power and domination, and
contributes to eventual emancipatory practices.
Following
on, the second volume examines the transformations that are linked to
digital practices that affect the production, circulation and
consumption of information, as well as new forms that are taken by
social mobilizations. It treats several important issues in the digital
era that are more likely to become the subject of public debates, among
which one can include the renewed relationship between research and
digital. Through diverse critical reflections, it equally presents
different ways that digital participates in relations of power and
domination, and contributes to eventual emancipatory practices.
