BIO

Dominique Cardon has quickly become one of France’s leading specialists on the subject of digital technologies and the internet. An associate member of the EHESS, a research centre for social movements, Dominique Cardon also carries out research into new uses for Orange and is an associate professor at the Marne-la-Vallée University.
 

His research focuses on contemporary changes affecting the public domain (above all concerning the new mediation infrastructures made possible by modern technology), on the role of criticism in public debate, on individualisation and participation in public expression, as well as on the relationship between cultural and social practices.
 

In 2010, he published La Démocratie Internet, critically praised as a challenging and instructive study into the political dimension of the internet. With À quoi rêvent les algorithmes. Nos vies à l'heure des Big Data, pubished in 2015, Dominique Cardon gets to grips with algorithms and their silent role in reinforcing social inequalities.