Dominique Cardon is sociologist in the Laboratory of uses of France Telecom R&D and associate researcher in the Centre d’études des mouvements sociaux (École des hautes études en sciences sociales). He is working on the transformation of the public space and the uses of new technologies. He published different articles on the place of new technologies in the no-global movement, alternative media and on the process of bottom-up innovations in the numeric world. Recently, his researches deal with the use of social media (blogging, Wikipedia, Facebook and Flickr) in different context.
He published La démocratie Internet (Paris, Seuil/République des idées, 2010) and, with Fabien Granjon, Médiactivistes, Paris, Presses de Science po, 2010.
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