CCQ Digital Technology Resources

Digital Communication:

• Caring and hostility online › Regulation and supervision of digital communication, cyberbullying, online harassment, online solidarity and support, etc. 

• Authenticity › Anonymity and avatars, pseudonyms, etc. 

• Digital expression of sexuality › Online seduction, sharing of intimate images (sexting), self-presentation, etc.

Culture:

• Digital cultures › Forms of communication, creation and interaction using digital technologies, digital arts, types of digital dialogue and new themes, multimodality, etc.

Technology: Use of technology on different scales, technophilia, technophobia, technocriticism, technosolutionism, disconnection from the living world, etc.

Technological innovation:

• Views of technological innovation,  the concept of “progress,” etc. 

• Transhumanism and posthumanism › Increase of human abilities, cyborgs, futurism, boundaries of humanity, etc. Biotechnology › Nanotechnology, cognitive science, treatment of diseases, technologically assisted reproduction, genetic selection and eugenics, genetically modified organisms, transgenic animals, etc. 

• Artificial intelligence › Virtual reality, deep learning, industrial and domestic robots, humanoid  robots, etc.

Information  technologies

• Social media, digital audiences, economic issues of media industries, big data, protection of personal information, internet addiction and cellphone addiction, etc. 

• Algorithms › Workings of algorithms, automated decision making, echo chambers, effects of algorithms on social and political life and on sociocognitive biases, connections between information technologies and disinformation, etc.

Environmental  technology

• Views of sustainable development, potential effects and limits of the effects of technological innovations on the environment (green economy focused on technological innovation), degrowth, green capitalism, energy transition, etc.

Articles

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• Réduire les inégalités grâce à l'intelligence artificielle

• Les origines du mot « troll »

• Les assistants vocaux

• Les retombées économiques de l'intelligence artificielle

• Le visage sombre de la reconnaissance faciale

• Intelligence artificielle en cuisine

• Introduction à l'intelligence artificielle (IA)

• IA et jeux vidéo

• IA et environnement

• IA et éthique

• Qu'est-ce que la cyberviolence?