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Keynote Speakers: Michel Wieviorka

A new cycle, and new questions for the social science in the digital era

Michel Wieviorka

The digital revolution started in the Silicon Valley when two families of innovations met, on the one hand transistors, computers, and then mobile phones, on the other hand Internet and social networks. Today, our whole life is digitalized, in all parts of the world, in all domains. Many startups that were founded during the last fifty years, disappeared, some of them became giants -the GAFAs, and others. What does this institutionalization mean?How can social science deal with the uses, but also the ambivalence of new technologies, and be critical? And how are they transformed by them? These are crucial questions, since we are at the end of a cycle, and that new issues and a new era are at stake with Artificial Intelligence.

Michel Wieviorka is professor at the EHESS, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences), in Paris. His main research focuses on social and cultural movements, democracy, cultural identities, as well as terrorism, violence, racism, and antisemitism. He directed the Center for Sociological Analysis and Intervention (CADIS) from 1993 to 2009, succeeding Alain Touraine, and presided from 2009 to 2020 over the FMSH, Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, which was founded by Fernand Braudel. He was president of the International Sociological Association (ISA) from 2006 to 2010 and a member of the Scientific Council of the European Research Council (ERC) from 2015 to 2020. He co-edits the journals SOCIO and Violence: An International Journal.

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