Data

With "Framing Luxembourg:" Statec and the Centre for Contemporary and Digital History tell "a history of Luxembourg in statistics as well as a history of statistics in Luxembourg".

Participation at two roundtables : Could we structure a big story around the materialities of data, computation and networks? Roundtable discussion featuring Cyrus Mody (Maastricht University), Moritz Feichtinger (Universität Bern), Axel Volmar (Siegen University) & Valérie Schafer (C2DH, University of Luxembourg, moderator) / Can we integrate issues of gender, justice and embodiment into the story of the computer itself or must these narratives remain separate and particular?

The Grand Duchy is considered as the third most open economy in the world, with an openness rate of 158.2% of GDP. The country has an export-intensive economy, with a recurrent trade deficit. The share of foreign trade in Luxembourg’s GDP is currently higher then 30%. Even in the context of the Covid-19 crisis, the country is pursuing its strategy of public investments.

Recension de l'ouvrage : Roy Pinker, Fake News & viralité avant Internet. Les lapins du Père- Lachaise et autres légendes média- tiques, Paris, CNRS Éditions, 2020, 231 pages.

Souvent éphémères, les pages personnelles, les blogs et aujourd’hui les écritures de soi et intimes sur les réseaux socio-numériques, jusqu’aux journaux de confinement nés lors de la crise COVID, sont toutefois partiellement préservés dans les archives du Web.

During the COVID-19 crisis many institutions have started live and special collections related to web archives of the pandemic. Many libraries have also been involved in an initiative led by the IIPC (International Internet Preservation Consortium) to gather a huge international collection of web archives available through Archive-It. Taking as a starting point two research projects related to the analysis of the web archiving of the COVID crisis, that we conducted within WARCnet and through

Knowledge-based societies rely to a large extent on intangible assets and digital technologies, and these are having an increasing impact on information systems, power, governance and citizenship, driven by a proliferation of stakeholders and networks at multiple levels (states, international organisations, private companies, civil society and citizens. There is a clear need for international regulation in this area.

This presentation takes online virality as its starting point, specifically that of memes and the question of their historicisation , in order to question how they may be resituated in a context of production and circulation, taking social, spatial and temporal logics into account. After a discussion of the scalable reading as applied to virality, with specific emphasis on the importance of the spatial and temporal aspects, we propose a case study based on the Harlem Shake.

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