The Digital Turn in Culture & Ethics - Altissia Chair

Teacher(s)

Byl Cédric;

Language

French

Main themes

Digital technology is having a fundamental impact on our lives and cultures, and consequently on the 'subjects' that are at the heart of our disciplinary fields while at the same time giving rise to major societal challenges. 
The cultural and ethical issues will be addressed and an epistemology of digital humanities will be defined. This reflection will highlight the changes brought about by digital technology in the humanities. It will be illustrated through various themes such as: 

• The delimitation and definition of 'digital'. 
• Digital cartography: digital treatment of spatialised culture and decompartmentalisation of cultural areas. 
• Digital surveillance and privacy. 
• Open sciences: the Wikimedia social movement and the relationship with the globalised digital world/digitisation of documentary heritage and digital restitution. 
• Digital communities: smart cities, digital encounters with non-humans and new forms of sociability. 
• Digital museography: dematerialisation, declassification and revitalisation of museographic objects. 
• Digital ecology: digital pollution, big data on living things and biomimicry. 

Learning outcomes

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :
1	To think critically about contemporary digital issues and the epistemological changes involved.
2	Identify the opportunities and challenges posed by the tools and circulation of data.
3	Apply critical analysis skills to real-life digital contexts.

Faculty or entity

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