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This paper unveils mutually constituent material, visual and metaphorical expressions of encounters between the human and the mechanical. It investigates circumstances and ways in which these expressions have come into existence, and captured and mobilised new forms of knowing and acting.

La communication a connu une patrimonialisation en amont du numérique, par la préservation de ses artefacts techniques ou de formes d’expressions politiques et médiatiques (discours politiques, écrits célèbres de la presse, émissions radiophoniques ou télévisées, etc.).

Network theories and methods have recently gained wide-spread attention. Graph visualizations look great and will easily grab the attention of any audience. However for those who are new to the field, there is a steep learning curve. Novices need to … Continue reading →

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This volume examines European perspectives on the historical relations that women have maintained with information and communication technologies (ICTs), since the telegraph.

This essay is a case study which looks at interferences types in the mother tongues of two multi-lingual sisters ages 8 and 6 who each speak 5 languages. In addition to typecasting of mistakes, the influence of the predominant language on the mother tongue is shown and the areas of language and the most significant deformations are defined. The question of whether a multi-identity emerges through multi-lingualism is answered with a resounding no, and the lingual identity of children is defined as a hybrid.

En 2007, après une série d’articles dans la New Left Review, Franco Moretti, spécialiste d’histoire de la littérature et professeur à Stanford, avance dans son livre Graphs, Maps and Trees la notion de lecture « distanciée » ou « distante » (distant reading).