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Alive in Social Media
Get a sharp analysis every Tuesday on how algorithms, social media, and Internet culture are reshaping our society. Direct from Paris.
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The Summer-shift posters
Social media use changes radically in summer. Starting with the least active users during the rest of the year. A decoding of these “summer-shift posters.”
The Social Konami Code
The revenge of digital secret passages is underway.
Pudeur furiosa
Pudeur is becoming a protection for our social bonds. Finstas, secondary social media accounts, anonymous forums: intimacy is reclaiming its borders.
Digital Sediments
As the feed insatiably replaces our traces, we are looking for ways to give weight to our digital lives.
Grunge Social Media
For a presence that is more alive, more rugged, and more recognizable.
Becoming an influencer in 2026: owning your world
Faced with platforms that automate and preformat our gestures, a conversation with Rachel Khoo on learning to protect creation before communication.
Color-walking: contradicting the feed
Choose a color, walk, photograph: behind color-walking, a small rebellion against automated attention is underway.
The Fragrance of Reality
When machines win on image, what remains is the scent of conversation.
Social networks are more social than ever
The problem is not that social networks are no longer social. It is that they are too social, in the wrong place. And people have already started rebuilding elsewhere.
Clandestine Intimacy
Monk mode, cloffices, waking at dawn: behind these tiny refuges, a new way of rebuilding social life may be taking shape. The first signs of a fourth place?
Breaking the Map: Speedrunners vs. the Church of Scientology
Leaving the map, stripping the code bare, vibrating under influence. Is the speedrun the new hack against Scientology?
Anti-Normie
Caught between the caricature of social media and the bland consensus of AI, protecting access to our inner lives is becoming an act of rebellion.
Made in Draft
By constantly privileging performance, social media erases part of our lives and of our origins. It is time to take back control of our digital identities.
Sleep, the nightmare of algorithms
Sleep has become a sanctuary increasingly under attack from social media. A cultural battle... and a physiological one.
Human Signal
In the digital noise of AI, we are beginning to look for the human again in the thickness of imperfections, relationships, and shared traces.
Digital Pompeii: for a versioning of our lives
At a time when platforms simulate an intimate knowledge of us, a resurrected old smartphone reveals another urgency: giving us back our historicity.
Texturing the Digital World to Feel Our Own Truth
Using a Kodak Charmera and writing on paper again is not another form of snobbery, but proof of a need to reprogram our attention. The Japanese concepts of 'Tatemae' and 'Honne' can help.
Biotechronicity: When Our Lives Sync to Platform Clocks
As we build our lives online, a risk quietly takes hold: losing exclusive ownership of our own biography.
Selfie-verse: Political Embodiment in the Industrial Age
In the age of AI avatars, the face becomes a strategic interface again. Debrief of the roundtable “Politics in Selfie Mode,” held during InfoCom Day 2026 (IFP).