the first European festival on creativity

2016 Programme

Event #11

Dominique Cardon

What do algorithms think of?

The digital universe collects the footprints of our activities online, and uses them to produce calculations that drive and govern our lives more and more. But what is the actual role of algorithms in the construction of a digital public space? How do calculators generate visibility? On what basis do Google’s PageRank, social web metrics, or “recommendation systems” decide to provide a given information with more exposure? The application of algorithms to digital services generates predictive techniques that help identify users’ future behavior based on their behavior in the past. Understanding what algorithms want to do, from the inside, is also a way of returning power to users and promoting an enlightened criticism of how calculations take up an increasingly large space in our digital lives.

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Dominique Cardon

is a sociologist at the Orange Labs Laboratoire des Usages and an associate professor at the University of Marne-la-Vallée Francia. His research focuses on the use of Internet and the transformation of digital public space. He is currently developing a sociological analysis of the algorithms that allow information to be organized online. He is the author of: La Démocratie Internet (Seuil, 2010); Qu’est-ce que le Digital Labor? (con A. Casilli, Ina Editions, 2015). Á quoi rêvent les algorithmes (Seuil, 2015) will be published in Italy at the end of August. Interpreter: Marina Astrologo.

2016 Programme

Event #11

Dominique Cardon

What do algorithms think of?

An idea of public space

That place called “home”

The space of words: Helen and Odysseus

The last day of summer

The birth of space (and time)

The birth of space (and time)

The space of war. The First Italian War of Independence

Immunity and the brain: a dialogue between two chief systems. From memory to vaccines.

New males: as teenagers, in couples, as fathers

Tv series: a newly emerged continent

Across the American deserts: a voyage through 20th century collective imagination

What do algorithms think of?

That place is gone

The space of rebellion

Other maps, other worlds. Representations of space

The analyst at the movies: thinking by images

From the stars to Life: one, one hundred, one thousand Earths

Architectural space in the past, the present, the future

Families confined and without borders

The best ideas of our lives. Make room for innovation (the real kind)

The space of absence: Patroclus and Andromache

On the other side of the sea

Play it again

The space of war. The second Italian War of Independence

School is an idea of the world

Asperger Talk Show

Let’s make space for stupidity

Voyages through spaces real and imagined

Is there space for us all? The future of European migrations

When painters left their studios to paint en plein air

The memory of space. The rubble of climate and rubbish in our homes

Graffiti, tags and murals: when art extends to walls

The poetry of space. Words and drawings on that place we call home

The river is never wrong

Mirror neurons: anatomy of a revolutionary discovery

The boundaries of the soul and of the world