Guillaume Latzko-Toth
Biographic Data
| ID | 1700893 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Guillaume Latzko-Toth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Guillaume |
| FAMILY NAME | Latzko-Toth |
| SIGNATURE | LATZKO-TOTH G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université Laval |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Internet(s) alternatif(s): S’affranchir de l’internet dominant
On observe depuis longtemps déjà un désir pour un internet différent de celui que l’on pourrait qualifier de dominant, associé aux grandes entreprises du numérique. Ce mouvement pour un internet alternatif, ou à tout le moins pour des plateformes ou infrastructures alternatives, se manifeste à travers sa promotion des logiciels libres, son opposition à la surveillance par les données et à l’opacité de la gouvernance des plateformes commerciales, …
Data Publics: An Empirical and Comparative Approach to Datafication
This article presents an empirical and comparative framework for understanding datafication through the lens of data publics. We define data publics as social groups that engage, or might be expected to engage, with data generated about, by, or for them. Through ethnographic case studies conducted in various contexts, including open data, health data, and data activism, this article explores how data initiatives are developed in relation to imagi…
Communication: D’un Carrefour Québécois À Une Institution Francophone
Pushing Back: Digital Resistance as a Sensitizing Concept
This paper thus aims to contribute to media, communication, and digital technology studies by proposing a more systematic conceptualization of digital resistance. While the notion of resistance in relation to technology is often connoted negatively and associated the rejection of innovation of change, our approach to digital resistance takes here a new meaning: political and critical. Indeed, the notion of digital resistance is often used in acad…
L’éthique de la recherche dans les espaces en ligne: Clarification de quelques notions
Sous quelles conditions peut-on utiliser les traces – écrites, visuelles, sonores et autres – disponibles en ligne comme données de recherche sans s’inquiéter du consentement des individus qui en sont à l’origine ? Cette question, centrale dans les discussions sur les enjeux éthiques de la recherche en ligne, a largement été traitée par diverses instances normatives de la recherche sous l’angle du respect de la vie privée. Mais la transposition a…
Trusted commons: Why ‘old’ social media matter
This paper looks at contemporary uses of an "old" social media -Internet Relay Chat (IRC) -and shows how they constitute a form of resistance to and a social critique of mainstream social media platforms. By examining IRC uses within three social worlds of peer production (free software development, hackerspace participation, Anonymous hacktivism), we argue that this open protocol (a digital commons) continues to serve as an essential component o…
Out from the PLATO cave: Uncovering the pre-Internet history of social computing
PLATO was a pioneering educational computer platform developed at the Computer-based Education Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the 1960s and 1970s. It quickly evolved into a communication system used for educational purposes, and also for social interaction (message boards, real-time messaging), collaboration and online gaming. The PLATO system was one of several precursors to today's Internet, but it has …
Small Data, Thick Data: Thickening Strategies for Trace-based Social Media Research
Users as Co-Designers of Software-Based Media: The Co-Construction of Internet Relay Chat
While it has become commonplace to present users as co-creators or “produsers” of digital media, their participation is generally considered in terms of content production. The case of Internet Relay Chat (IRC) shows that users can be fully involved in the design process, a co-construction in the sense of Science and Technology Studies (STS): a collective, simultaneous, and mutual construction of actors and artifacts. A case study of the early de…
Metaphors of Synchrony: Emergence and Differentiation of Online Chat Devices
Through a detailed account of the history of online chat devices, this article shows the emergence, over time, of two distinct interactional formats underlying these social media. They may be captured by two generic metaphors of synchrony: conference (a gathering in a virtual place where unfocused interactions and group sociability occur) and copresence (where practices are centered on the sustainment of contact between individuals who know each …
La virtualité comme catégorie pour penser le social: L’usage de la notion de communauté virtuelle
La virtualité comme catégorie pour penser le social : l’usage de la notion de communauté virtuelle. Un article de la revue Sociologie et sociétés (Les promesses du cyberespace. Médiations, pratiques et pouvoirs à l'heure de la communication électronique) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
La virtualité comme catégorie pour penser le social: L’usage de la notion de communauté virtuelle
La virtualité comme catégorie pour penser le social : l’usage de la notion de communauté virtuelle. Un article de la revue Sociologie et sociétés (Les promesses du cyberespace. Médiations, pratiques et pouvoirs à l'heure de la communication électronique) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Out from the PLATO cave: Uncovering the pre-Internet history of social computing
PLATO was a pioneering educational computer platform developed at the Computer-based Education Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the 1960s and 1970s. It quickly evolved into a communication system used for educational purposes, and also for social interaction (message boards, real-time messaging), collaboration and online gaming. The PLATO system was one of several precursors to today's Internet, but it has …
La virtualité comme catégorie pour penser le social: L’usage de la notion de communauté virtuelle
La virtualité comme catégorie pour penser le social : l’usage de la notion de communauté virtuelle. Un article de la revue Sociologie et sociétés (Les promesses du cyberespace. Médiations, pratiques et pouvoirs à l'heure de la communication électronique) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Metaphors of Synchrony: Emergence and Differentiation of Online Chat Devices
Through a detailed account of the history of online chat devices, this article shows the emergence, over time, of two distinct interactional formats underlying these social media. They may be captured by two generic metaphors of synchrony: conference (a gathering in a virtual place where unfocused interactions and group sociability occur) and copresence (where practices are centered on the sustainment of contact between individuals who know each …
Users as Co-Designers of Software-Based Media: The Co-Construction of Internet Relay Chat
While it has become commonplace to present users as co-creators or “produsers” of digital media, their participation is generally considered in terms of content production. The case of Internet Relay Chat (IRC) shows that users can be fully involved in the design process, a co-construction in the sense of Science and Technology Studies (STS): a collective, simultaneous, and mutual construction of actors and artifacts. A case study of the early de…
Small Data, Thick Data: Thickening Strategies for Trace-based Social Media Research
Out from the PLATO cave: Uncovering the pre-Internet history of social computing
PLATO was a pioneering educational computer platform developed at the Computer-based Education Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the 1960s and 1970s. It quickly evolved into a communication system used for educational purposes, and also for social interaction (message boards, real-time messaging), collaboration and online gaming. The PLATO system was one of several precursors to today's Internet, but it has …
Trusted commons: Why ‘old’ social media matter
This paper looks at contemporary uses of an "old" social media -Internet Relay Chat (IRC) -and shows how they constitute a form of resistance to and a social critique of mainstream social media platforms. By examining IRC uses within three social worlds of peer production (free software development, hackerspace participation, Anonymous hacktivism), we argue that this open protocol (a digital commons) continues to serve as an essential component o…
L’éthique de la recherche dans les espaces en ligne: Clarification de quelques notions
Sous quelles conditions peut-on utiliser les traces – écrites, visuelles, sonores et autres – disponibles en ligne comme données de recherche sans s’inquiéter du consentement des individus qui en sont à l’origine ? Cette question, centrale dans les discussions sur les enjeux éthiques de la recherche en ligne, a largement été traitée par diverses instances normatives de la recherche sous l’angle du respect de la vie privée. Mais la transposition a…
Pushing Back: Digital Resistance as a Sensitizing Concept
This paper thus aims to contribute to media, communication, and digital technology studies by proposing a more systematic conceptualization of digital resistance. While the notion of resistance in relation to technology is often connoted negatively and associated the rejection of innovation of change, our approach to digital resistance takes here a new meaning: political and critical. Indeed, the notion of digital resistance is often used in acad…
Communication: D’un Carrefour Québécois À Une Institution Francophone
Internet(s) alternatif(s): S’affranchir de l’internet dominant
On observe depuis longtemps déjà un désir pour un internet différent de celui que l’on pourrait qualifier de dominant, associé aux grandes entreprises du numérique. Ce mouvement pour un internet alternatif, ou à tout le moins pour des plateformes ou infrastructures alternatives, se manifeste à travers sa promotion des logiciels libres, son opposition à la surveillance par les données et à l’opacité de la gouvernance des plateformes commerciales, …
Data Publics: An Empirical and Comparative Approach to Datafication
This article presents an empirical and comparative framework for understanding datafication through the lens of data publics. We define data publics as social groups that engage, or might be expected to engage, with data generated about, by, or for them. Through ethnographic case studies conducted in various contexts, including open data, health data, and data activism, this article explores how data initiatives are developed in relation to imagi…
Sociology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · The Internet (5 works) · World Wide Web (5 works) · Digital Games and Media (4 works) · Open Source Software Innovations (4 works) · Social Media and Politics (4 works) · Cultural Insights and Digital Impacts (3 works) · Internet privacy (3 works) · Social media (3 works)