The fifth session of the seminar "Digital Writing and Editorialisation" will take place on *Thursday, April 24,* *11**:**30 AM at University of Montreal *(in room P217 of Roger-Gaudry Building)[videoconference link-up with "salle Triangle" of Pompidou Center in Paris, 5:30 PM]

*More information*:

*http://seminaire.sens-public.org/spip.php?article33 http://seminaire.sens-public.org/spip.php?article33*

The session will be retransmitted live on *http://www.polemictweet.com/ http://www.polemictweet.com/*

Topic of the session: *Algorithms and Automated Web Curation*

Behind our reading experience lies data structured by algorithms (often proprietary) which create the meaning of content. Algorithms and editorial devices have become more and more present and powerful and create important reading trajectories. Aside from Google PageRank, what are the new metrical and statistical paradigms that shape by default (knowingly, or not) our informational world and the putting into meaning of that world? Is the algorithm a plausible (and sole) answer to the proliferation of data on the Web? Has the Web become “*un immense bazar où il serait impossible de trier l’information de qualité?*” [“an immense bazaar where it is extremely difficult to select quality information?” (A citation by Dominique Cardon regarding Yochai Benkler's “Babel objection”)]

*Guest presentators are*:

- *Dominique Cardon* : http://seminaire.sens-public.org/spip.php?auteur58.

- *Audrey Laplante* : http://seminaire.sens-public.org/spip.php?auteur60.

The seminar is organized by *La revue Sens Public*, the *Iri*, Université de Montréal and McGill University, supported by MSH Paris-Nord. It was created in 2009 in partnership with the laboratoire Invisu (INHA-CNRS).

*Following session: Thursday, June 19, 2014*

See the whole program: *http://seminaire.sens-public.org/ http://seminaire.sens-public.org/*

*Thanks for sharing the information !*

An invitation by Marcello Vitali Rosati and Michael E. Sinatra, teachers at Université de Montréal, Nicolas Sauret from the *Iri* , Stefan Sinclair at McGill University and Carole Dely editor of *La revue Sens Public*.

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Fabrice Marcoux

Masters student in *Littératures de langue française* at Université de Montréal

*fabrice.marcoux@umontreal.ca fabrice.marcoux@umontreal.ca* *homegnolia@gmail.com homegnolia@gmail.com*