The fourth session of the seminar "Digital Writing and Editorialisation" will take place on *Thursday, March 13,* *12**:30 AM Eastern Time 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 France time]

*More information*:

*http://seminaire.sens-public.org/spip.php?article32 http://seminaire.sens-public.org/spip.php?article32*

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

Topic of the session: *The Convergence of Platforms, or the Support Environment*

A few years ago, the principle of convergence represented the decompartmentalisation between the actors of content and the containers. It has finally been transformed into what is now referred to as a transmedia experience. The latter consists in either individual or collective experience of access to the content through equipment, interfaces and diversified uses, each creating new entry points in the data exchanges and flow.

The transmedia experience described above by Louise Merzeau is directly related to the environment ; namely the spatial, material and software configurations in which the user is set. The support thus becomes the environment, thanks to the way in which we (inter)act.

Considering the diversity of practices, supports and representations that together create the support-environment, what is the unity factor ? What is the smallest common denominator that allows this environment to be meaningful ?

What are the new dynamics operating within knowledge circulation ?

*La convergence des plateformes, ou l'environnement-support*

*Le principe de convergence, qui désignait il y a quelques années le décloisonnement entre les acteurs du contenu et des contenants semble finalement se réaliser dans ce qu'on appelle l'expérience transmédiatique. Celle-ci résulte d'une expérience individuelle ou collective d'accès aux contenus à travers des appareils, des interfaces et des usages diversifiés, constituant chacun de nouveaux points d'entrée dans les échanges et les flux de données.*

*L'expérience transmédiatique que décrit ainsi Louise Merzeau est directement liée à l'environnement, c'est-à-dire à la configuration spatiale, matérielle, logicielle dans laquel l'usager se trouve. Le support devient donc environnement, grâce et à travers lequel nous (inter)agissons.*

*Au regard de la multiplicité des pratiques, des supports, et des représentations qui constituent ensemble l'environnement-support, qu'est ce qui fait encore unité, quel est le plus petit dénominateur commun qui permet à cet environnement de faire sens ?*

*Quelles sont les nouvelles dynamiques qui opèrent dans la circulation des savoirs ?*

*Guest presentators are*:

- *Maurizio Ferraris* is full Professor of Philosophy at the University of Turin, where he is also the Director of the LabOnt (Laboratory for Ontology). He has also been Directeur d'études of the Collège International de Philosophie and a Visiting Professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris) as well as other European and American Universities.

He wrote almost fifty books that have been translated into several languages. The books that have appeared in English are: *History of Hermeneutics* (Humanities Press, 1996), *Documentality or Why it is Necessary to Leave Traces* (Fordham UP, 2012), *Goodbye Kant!* (SUNY UP, 2013); forthcoming in 2014: *Where Are You? An Ontology of the Cell Phone*(Fordham UP) and *Manifesto of New Realism* (SUNY UP).

The French translation of one of his latest books, *Anima e iPad* (*Âme et iPad *: "Soul and iPad"), will be published on March 12, 2014, for the launch of the new collection "Parcours numériques" at PUM (Presses de l'Université de Montreal).

- *Valérie Jeanne-Perrier* teaches sociology of medias and of organisations. Her interventions dig into profesional and editorial mutations related to the use of computerized tools as sources and resources for writing, as well as for the structuring of information and work production. Her works aim at individual sociological dimensions: to what extent are individuals lead to work on themselves, to produce their "working-selves" through the mobilization of writing and mediation devices, to create their identities "wallet" ?

The seminar is realised in collaboration 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, April 24, 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*