Corsi di Studio del Dipartimento di Culture, Politica e Società

The objective of this course is to gather experts from different academic fields and provide a multidisciplinary perspective on the digital transition.
It is based on the contributions of researchers from the COSTECH research lab at UTC.

The course provides detailed knowledge on echnological change, digital transition and transdisciplinary perspectives.

The teaching methods will include lecture courses and flipped classroom.

The language of teaching is English.

There will be a group project (2-4 students) leading to a report and a defence.

The report is to be issued by the end of January.

Lecture 1 – The “Anthropologically-based technique” thesis (Pierre
Steiner, philosopher)

Lecture 2 – Evolution and history of technology (Guillaume Carnino, historian)

Lecture 3 – Technology as a substitution or supplementation tool? (Charles Lenay, cognitive scientist and philosopher)

Lecture 4 – The digital transformation of bureaucracy and the platformization of the State (Clément Mabi and Anne Bellon, information
and communication scientist)

Lecture 5 – Platform regulation and algorithm governmentality (Clément Mabi and Anne Bellon, information and communication scientist)

Lecture 6 – Social movement and the digital public space (Clément Mabi and Anne Bellon, information and communication scientist)

Lecture 7 – Centralisation and decentralisation of the Internet (Stéphane Crozat, computer scientist)

Lecture 8 – Skills in the digital area: the meritocracy renewal? (Michaël Vicente, sociologist)

Lecture 9 – Digital creation: stakes and perspectives (Serge Bouchardon,
information and communication scientist)

Lecture 10 – Managing technological innovation: the TATIN interactive table case study (Thierry Gidel, management scientist)

Lecture 11 – The design of physical-digital workspaces to support globally collaborative work (Thierry Gidel, management scientist)

Lecture 12 and 13 – Crowdsourcing, network sciences and socio-economic prospectives (Pascal Jollivet-Courtois, economist)

The “Anthropologically-based technique” thesis
Steiner Pierre. “Philosophie, technologie et cognition : État des lieux et
perspectives”. In Steiner Pierre & Stewart John (Eds), “Philosophie,
Technologie et Cognition”, Intellectica, 53-54, (pp.7-40) (2010), link.
Ihde, Don, Malafouris, Lambros. Homo faber Revisited:
Postphenomenology and Material Engagement Theory. Philosophy &
Technology. 32, 195-;214 (2019), link.
Hodder, Ian. Entangled. An Archeology of the Relationships between
Humans and Things. Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
An example from the history of science
Liliane HILAIRE-PÉREZ, “‘What Is Technology?’: An Enquiry into the
Science of the Arts at the Dawn of Industrialisation”, in Kristine Bruland,
Anne Gerritsen, Pat Hudson, Giorgio Riello (dir.), Re-inventing the
Economic History of Industrialisation, McGill-Queens University Press,
2020, p. 44-58.
Guillaume CARNINO, “Vers une épistémotechnique”, SHS web of
conference, 2014, link
Vaclav SMIL, Energy and Civilization. A History, Cambridge: MIT Press,
2017.
Technology as a substitution or supplementation tool?
Lenay, C., O. Gapenne, S. Hanneton, C. Marque, et C. Genouel. “Sensory
substitution: Limits and perspectives”. In Touching for Knowing, Cognitive
psychology of haptic manual perception, Y. Hatwell, A. Streri, et E.
Gentaz (eds), 275-92. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins
Publishing Company, 2003.
Lenay, C., et M. Tixier. “From Sensory Substitution to Perceptual
Supplementation: Appropriation and Augmentation”. In Living Machines:
A Handbook of Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems. Oxford UniversityPress, Tony J. Prescott, Nathan Lepora, and Paul F.M.J Verschure Eds.,
2018, pp. 548-555.
Lenay, C., D. Aubert, “Technical Innovation in Human Science : examples
in cognitive technologies”, Theoria, Vol. 34/3, septembre 2019, pp. 313-
471.
The digital transformation of bureaucracy and the platformization of the State

Main readings:
- Cordella, A., and Tempini, N. (2015). E-government and organizational change: Reappraising the role of ICT and bureaucracy in public service delivery. Government Information. Quarterly.