The field of the Digital Humanities has developed both in France and globally over the last decade, in line with the penetration of digital technologies into all levels of society and the academic sphere. Coined by Unsworth and Siemens in 2004, the term ‘digital humanities’ was originally intended to signal a shift away from the first phase of humanities computing, which largely involved the digitisation of texts through the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI). Doing ‘digital humanities’ has since comprised the application of computational methods to the study of texts and also the application of the critical theoretical methodologies of the contemporary humanities to digital objects. It thus overlaps with media studies, which looks at the relationship between technology and the kinds of thought and cultural expression to which different technologies give rise. It has begun to converge, too, in this respect, with the emerging discipline of Science and Technology Studies (STS), which analyses the relationship between technological cultures (scientific instruments, institutional practices) and the formation of scientific knowledge. Just as the digital humanities subsumed the earlier field of the computational humanities, we now argue that the time has come for the digital humanities to be superseded and subsumed within the broader field of digital studies. This is in recognition of the way that all fields of knowledge, including not just the humanities but the social and ‘hard’ sciences, and all aspects of social organisation, are reinvented with every change in the technical systems that constitute culture. With the advent of the digital, this reinvention has been both creative and traumatic in equal measure. Science has been revolutionised by new techniques that permit the unprecedented sharing of data (the human genome project, the compilation of climate data), but has stumbled over intellectual copyright and the privatisation of knowledge, not to mention the profound ‘flattening’ of scientific expertise that comes with the proliferation of media and the prospect of undifferentiated access to all manner of different opinions (Bruno Latour). Similar issues of access are transforming the spheres of politics and the economy (the replacement of ‘professional’ classes with unpaid, free content: from HuffPo to ‘Uberisation’). In each of these cases, we are seeing the realignment of existing social structures around an economy of contribution, in which knowledge is produced not by private, proprietorial users who buy and sell information, but by collaborative participants and amateurs who make their data open to and modifiable by all. Digital Studies is the field of research that takes this emerging ‘economy of contribution’ as one of its objects and systematically investigates the epistemic and epistemological stakes of this new state of affairs in the field of knowledge. The purpose of this bid is to bring together researchers across institutions in Europe, Asia and North and South America to build an international Digital Studies Network, focusing on the way in which society and its institutions are being transformed by digital culture, and by different technologies more generally. In addition to these theoretical and epistemological dimensions, the network will also develop open-source technologies to foster the growth of the economy of contribution as well as new instruments for contributive research. This is where we want to develop an ambitious European and international research program (FET-Exchange) on technologies for contributive categorization, annotation, certification and editorialization with the goal of developing an hermeneutic and negentropic conception of the world wide web.

The project Spectacle En Ligne(s) proposes the development of an industrial tool for captation, indexation, analysis and publication of enriched archives for genetical analysis of theatre and opera performances. The project has four main issues leading to interdisciplinary research of SHS (Theatre and Opera), directly related to STIC: 1 – an SHS issue in the field of live performance direction starting with two fields of experience : Theatre and Opera, with the idea to developp a methodology and tools focused on genetical analysis of pieces, based on video capture. The objective of such device is on one hand a better transfer of knowledges, professions, “know how” for a better understanding and therefore a better critical of the creation process and its constituting elements. On the other hand, a better transfer of the History of theatre since that for the first time, we will be able to deliver a visual memory of performing arts process to the students and futurs professionals and to enrich their innovation capacity with the materials of passed experience. 2 – an industrial issue with the design and the development of a simple and reliable tool for captation, indexation, analysis and publication of enriched archives. 3 – an Records Management issue by proposing an approach using massively the emergent standards of the semantic Web (RDF Tags Ontology) and the video Web (W3C Mediafragments / HTML5) 4 – a social engineering and sociological analysis issue, by developping on one hand strategies for collaborative annotation and analysis from the public, and on the other hand by studying the social dynamics coming from the engagement of enthusiastics directly involved on professional productions.

The goal of this transdisciplinary program is at once to specify the aspects that quintessentially characteristic of the transformation of disciplines (astrophysics, history) summoned by their relationship to their objects under the effects of digital formalization, and to develop instruments for scientific peer-communities, beyond the two disciplines, which facilitate a contributory categorization that engenders debate and controversy—based on the concept of transindividuation—and advocates bottom-up processes of categorization (issued by individual research activities) in addition to the top-down categorization model (that is to say, those produced by discussions within peer-reviewed communities, which are more or less local in a laboratory, specific to a school, peculiar to an entire discipline). This work will be conducted with a view to functionally articulating the design of digital scientific instruments and publication tools targeted at users and publics from diverse backgrounds (primarily young researchers), and deployed in experimental contexts with high visibility (France Télévisions et Médiapart, Moocs and ehibitions at Saclay and Nantes). The goal is to connect the design of scientific instruments and the questions they support as didactic and pedagogical tools. A first task is dedicated to an epistemology study and to modeling traces. On this conceptual basis, the central goal of the project is to build a new tool for collaborative categorization based on a new format (hermeneutic Web) articulated with semantic Web and social Web standards. The backoffice and the data format will be integrated in generic tools even if they are protoyped for two specific disciplines: 1) reflexive and contributive technologies for researchers: note taking, individual annotation on text, image and vidéo, indexing assisted by semantic tools tools for managing debates and controversies constructed on an alternative model to general purpose social network for deliberation and certification 2) editorial technologies for researchers paving the way for a new publishing industry fully audiovisual for 3 editorial tools: MOOC, contributive web sites and onsite exhibition displays. The project, which will be conducted by young researchers, and supervised by experienced researchers, all of whom intend to have a direct impact on the dissemination and evaluation of online knowledge in audiovisual form, will be specifically aimed at designing new forms of editorialization and publishing in partnership with France Télévisions and Mediapart.

<< Objectives >>With RegenerAction we aim at defining and finding a common agreement on the competence framework of the Urban Community Builder for actions of urban regeneration, training with innovative living labs booting their green and digital competencies and transferring knowledge on how to establish Public-Private-People-Partnerships. Also, with the final Augmented Reality Manifesto, we want to provide a visual, innovative and interactive synthesis of the vision, values and policy recommendations by UCBs<< Implementation >>- Development of a handbook describing the knowledge and skills of the Urban Community Builder- Local and European Living Labs for UCBs to boost their green and digital skills, and transfer tools and knowledge for creating Public-Private-People-Partnerships- Co-design and development with UCBs of an interactive and disruptive Manifesto made with Augmented Reality including the visions, values and policy recommendations of European UCBs<< Results >>HANDBOOK: Creation of a recognized professional figure: the Urban Community builder TRAINING PACKAGE: Green skills Digital skills, Public-Private-people partnershipPOLICY PAPER recommendations Visual Manifesto using Augmented reality

The principal aim of Networking Ecologically Smart Territories (NEST) will be to test the hypothesis that digital diversification, which will be explored as noodiversification and technodiversification as the conditions of resilience of human societies, holds the key to a reinvention of contemporary, proletarianising, industrial economics. For this purpose, a large transdisciplinary research mobility project is necessary in order to articulate local territorial situations with international concerns in the context of the Anthropocene. The aims will be achieved through an international and intersectorial exchange of researchers and staff across the academic and non-academic partners of NEST. The NEST consortium is made of 11 partners, 5 EU academic partners TU Dublin (IRL), IRI (FR), Paris Lumières (FR), USLK (PL) and UGE (FR), 2 Third Country academic Partners Uartes (EC), Berkeley (US) and 4 non-academic partners, DCC (IRL), CSSD( FR), Factory of the Living (PL), and Disnovation (FR) . There are 3 academic WPs.By extending the critique of digital technology already undertaken by the Digital Studies Network to reconsider the foundations of computer theory in relation to the concepts of locality, negentropy, anti-entropy, data economy and networked AI by developing the concepts of technodiversity and cosmotenchnics (WP1). To experiment and introduce new forms of collective responsibility through Territorial experimentation, enabling new forms of citizen participation in local governance through contributory research (WP2). To experiment and develop a network of territorial laboratories of digital contributory research in order to study the constraints acting on life and the archipelagos of ecological niches by species inhabiting the same territories, with a view to generating local understandings of living singularities and functional cooperations between territorial-laboratories and academics in view of the planetary threat. (WP3)