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Décrire la « révolution des données » avec rigueur et esprit critique, loin du bruit qui se forme autour du sujet, tel est le but de cet ouvrage de Rob Kitchin, professeur à l'université nationale irlandaise Maynooth. Spécialiste de géographie urbaine, de ce que l'on appelle la « ville connectée », l'auteur en est venu à s'intéresser aux infrastructures et pratiques numériques et aux notions liées à celle de « donnée », dont il donne ici un panorama documenté et réaliste. Par souci de rigueur...

This article analyses the initiating role of the steel industry in educational selection by means of psychometric techniques used in the psycho-physiological laboratory associated with a vocational school in Luxembourg founded in 1914. It first considers the origins of, and initial meanings bestowed upon, this first (and perhaps also last) Luxembourg Laboratory of Psychophysiology. Second, it investigates whether and, if so, to what extent psychometric techniques developed

The arrival on the market of “hyperconnected” glasses is raising many questions on the increasing mediation of social relationships through digital tools. “Google Glasses” are designed to be permanently connected to the Internet, and can be worn all day long to add digital information to our “natural” field of vision and to record our various actions.

Automobile sounds contain information on the technical state of the car; these sounds can be used to monitor the car while driving, and, in case of a flaw, to diagnose its source. For German car mechanics, listening to car sounds was, since the institutionalization of the trade in the 1930s, a legitimate entrance to diagnostic knowledge. The introduction of new diagnostic equipment in the 1950s contested the epistemic status of diagnostic listening.

How has the Internet come about in Europe? How did the “network of networks” and ICTs become political stakes for EU institutions? This chapter proposes to shed light on facts, limits and tensions of the building of a political Union in the ICT regulation field. It analyses the role of various stakeholders, from technical experts to ordinary citizens, according to an historical approach structured around three key notions: appropriating, governing and using the Internet.

Les humanités digitales se situent à la croisée de l informatique, des arts, des lettres et des sciences humaines et sociales. Elles s enracinent dans un mouvement en faveur de la diffusion, du partage et de la valorisation du savoir. Avec leur apparition, les universités, les lieux de savoir et les chercheurs vivent une transformation importante de leur mode de travail. Cela entraîne une évolution des compétences et des pratiques. Cet ouvrage explique les origines des humanités digitales et ses évolutions.

This study attempts to clarify how Heroes' Memorial Day was adapted against the background of the National Socialist concept, what means the Wehrmacht used, how the celebrations were held, what symbols and what rituals were used. Particular attention is paid to the celebrations among the troops in peace and in war.

This article argues – in contradiction to the thesis developed by Rens Bod – that