"Digital materialities" working group of the Center for Internet and Society (CIS)
People / organizations involved:
Center for Internet and Society (CIS)
Locations:
Paris, France
This working group intends to highlight all the forms that materialities, matters and materials associated with the social worlds, industrial sectors and socio-technical arrangements of the digital worlds, which will also be presented in terms of their spatial and territorial anchoring. Open to multidisciplinary exchanges, this working group aims to bring together all the human and social sciences (sociology, anthropology, history, geography, political science, etc.), while mobilizing contributions from other research fields interested in the study of digital materialities: computer science, chemistry, physics, geology, electronics, and materials science and engineering. The working group also wishes to open the discussions to the plurality of audiences concerned by these themes: activists, artists, industrial actors, elected officials, workers, journalists.
Duration: 01.01.2020 - ongoing