IV Congress of CiberSociety 2009. Analog crisis, digital future

Pierre Lévy

Place

Canada


Language(s)

English


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Professional profile

  • Profession:

    Philosopher, Researcher, Professor

  • Organism / Institution:

    University of Otawa

  • Interest Area 1:

    Filosofía

  • Interest Area 2:

    CiberSociedad

  • Short presentation:

    Pierre Lévy is a philosopher who devotes his professional life to understanding the cognitive and cultural implications of digital technologies to promote their best social use and to study the phenomenon of human collective intelligence.

    He has written a dozen books on this subject which have been translated into over 12 languages. Some of his titles are: "L'intelligence collective. Pour une anthropologie du cyberespace "(1994)," Qu'est-ce que le virtuel? "(1995)" Cyberculture "(1997)," Cyberdémocratie. Essai de philosophie politique "(2002)

    Currently teaches at the Department of Communication at the University of Ottawa (Canada), where he holds a research chair on Collective Intelligence.

    His most recent work focuses on language development IEML (Information Economy Meta Language)

    You can read the article " From Social Computing to Reflexive Collective Intelligence" in order to know more about his project.
    http://www.ieml.org/spip.php?article156


    The work that presents Pierre Lévy in the IV Congress of the Cyber Society is entitled "Towards a Civilization of Collective Intelligence." The author identifies the major changes that have happened in our society. The slides introduce the need for a new language that can establish a link between the process of the machine of cyberspace and the human collective intelligence which is dynamic, constantly changing and that takes form in different languages, from different perspectives.

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