Reliance on digital traces vs deconstruction of their meaning

Béatrice Galinon-Mélénec (1)

1 Equipe Homme-trace

In this text, Béatrice Galinon-Mélénec analyses digital reality as a " black box of knotty implications for human beings " who were the very ones who created it. Her anthropological approach has led her to conclude that today's humans, like those of yesterday, are confronted individually with ethical choices: treating digital traces as Ichnos-Anthropos (Human-Trace) by studying the range of possibilities offered among Homo homini lupus or Homo sacra res homini.

Keywords: Systemic approach; Lettrure; Simplexity; Complexity; Mark; Trace; Epistemology of the trace; Indication; Fingerprint; Human-Trace; Sign-Trace; Body-Trace; Anthropology of communications; Ethics; Semiotics of traces

Domains: Humanities and Social Sciences; Library and information sciences

Béatrice Galinon-Mélénec. Reliance on digital traces vs deconstruction of their meaning. 2018. ⟨hal-01833192⟩