Ganaele Langlois
Biographic Data
| ID | 4154560 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ganaele Langlois |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ganaele |
| FAMILY NAME | Langlois |
| SIGNATURE | LANGLOIS G |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3947-5287 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Digital Reset: Critical and Creative Interventions to Rewire Sense-Making
This paper explores how critical theory, art and performance develop alternatives to the dominant social media paradigm of psycho-social exploitation. Social media short-circuit experience and sense-making through a logic where modes of data exploitation take over the processes of affect and cognition. Tentacular and everywhere, corporate social media giants seem to present two options – either embrace them and their (false) promises or cancel th…
Cosmomedia: Natural Dyes in Japan
This article explores John Durham Peters’ concepts of ‘communication as (impossible) communion’ and ‘elemental media’ by turning to the Japanese traditions of naturally dyed textiles. The article explores the politics of encounter that naturally-dyed textiles enable and links them to the question of world-making. It further examines how the extraction and application of color from the environment engages not only with humans and culture, but with…
Introduction to Special Section: The Mainstreaming of the Canadian Alt-Right
Introduction: The Mainstreaming of the Canadian Alt-Right
Introduction: Connection issues
Special Section: Alt-Rights in Canada
Enemy Imaginaries: A Case Study of the Far Right in Canada
Background: Social media and digital technology play a central role in amplifying the potential harms of the far right. Analysis: The concept of enemy imaginaries is developed to map the digital and social media practices of far-right actors and groups in their antagonistic participation with and against a liberal, multicultural, globalist imagined community. Analysis focuses on a dramatic clash at a People’s Party of Canada event in Hamilton, On…
Distributed Intelligence: Silk Weaving and the Jacquard Mechanism
Background Launched in the early 1800s in Lyon, France, the Jacquard mechanism is often seen as the precursor for today’s software systems, enabling greater productivity in the automated industrial production of woven fabric. Analysis Based on archival research, this media archaeology article argues that the Jacquard mechanism enabled a new form of textile-based digital imaging. Lyon weavers used the mechanism to augment human imagination and str…
Impersonal subjectivation from platforms to infrastructures
The rapid expansion of social media has led to the concentration of digitized, networked, and mediated processes into the hands of a few giant corporations (e.g. Google, Facebook, and Amazon), their partners and affiliates. From smart watches to targeted advertising and reputation scores, this new political economy of subjectivation – or subject making – sees an intensification of datafication to sell commodities, manipulate moods, inject ideolog…
Debunking the Myth of “Not My Bad”: Sexual Images, Consent, and Online Host Responsibilities in Canada
Non-consensual distribution of intimate images has been a crime in Canada since 2015. This article argues that it is time to consider how online platforms, hosts, and fora that allow users to post sexual images either directly engage in criminal acts or incur responsibility to help suppress this illegal activity. Methods for holding businesses responsible for participating in promoting or facilitating this type of wrongdoing by users should vary …
Economies of reputation: The case of revenge porn
Revenge porn involves publicly releasing pictures of a person’s sexual activity, along with the means to contact that person, to provoke widespread shaming. This paper analyzes the US-based revenge porn website MyEx.com through discourse, legal, and information network analyses. The paper explores how revenge porn is not only an instance of online sexual violence rooted in abjection but also symptomatic of a new political economy of subjectivity,…
What Are the Stakes in Doing Critical Research on Social Media Platforms
One of the key challenges facing social media studies is the capacity to undertake independent, critical research. As the field of social media is massively dominated by corporate players with a vested interest in both privatizing social data and developing proprietary social analytical tools, it is now crucial to advocate for a politics of public social media research
Networked campaigns: Traffic tags and cross platform analysis on the web
This article defines a new methodological framework to examine emerging forms of political campaigning on and across Web 2.0 platforms (i.e. Facebook, Youtube, Twitter) in the North-American context. The proposed method seeks to identify the new strategies that make use of campaign text s, users, keywords, information networks and software code to spread a political communications and rally voters across distributed, and therefore seemingly unman…
Participatory Culture and the New Governance of Communication: The Paradox of Participatory Media
This article develops a critical alternative to the common equation between participatory culture and democratic communication and argues that power on online participatory platforms should be understood as the governance of semiotic open-endedness. This article argues that the concept of cultural expression cannot be understood solely by looking at users’ cultural practices, but should be revisited to pay attention to the networked conditions th…
Networked Publics: The Double Articulation of Code and Politics on Facebook
Through three case studies of online political activism on Facebook, this article conceptualizes the deployment of issue publics (Lippmann, 1993; Marres, 2005) on Facebook. We argue that issue publics on Facebook come into being through a specific set of double articulations of code and politics that link and reshape informational processes, communicational constraints and possibilities, and political practices in different and sometimes contradi…
Blogs I Read”: Partisanship and Party Loyalty in the Canadian Political Blogosphere
This article builds upon current hyperlink mapping research to determine the degree of party loyalty and partisanship in the Canadian political blogosphere. The article develops a hyperlink-based method of determining blogger endorsements as a means of tracking cross-party recommendations. The article concludes that bloggers affiliated with the governing Conservative Party of Canada exhibit the most cohesive ideological and party loyal set of blo…
Wikipedia leeches? The promotion of traffic through a collaborative web format
This article investigates the circulation of Wikipedia entries on the web in an effort to determine the integration of its collaborative model into existing proprietary web formats. In particular it details the use of Wikipedia content as 'tags' or information that is used to increase traffic to webpages through search engine results. Consequently, the article discusses the need to develop theoretical models that provide for an understanding of b…
Election bloggers: Methods for determining political influence
This paper discusses early findings and methodological pitfalls of a study of a hyper–mediated election campaign in Canada. Web logs — or “blogs” — serve as the primary object of study. The paper focuses on possible sources of large scale data (aggregated blogger posts) and methods of determining the political influence of bloggers. A series of methodologies are proposed to resolve the over–reliance upon information aggregators and blog search en…
Networks and Layers: Technocultural Encodings of the World Wide Web
This paper calls for a cultural analysis of the World Wide Web through a focus on the technical layers that shape the Web as a medium. Web technologies need to be acknowledged as not only shaped by social processes, but also deployed, through standardization and automation, as agents that render representation possible by following specific technocultural logics. Thus, the focus is on the relationship between hardware, software, and culture throu…
Participatory Culture and the New Governance of Communication: The Paradox of Participatory Media
This article develops a critical alternative to the common equation between participatory culture and democratic communication and argues that power on online participatory platforms should be understood as the governance of semiotic open-endedness. This article argues that the concept of cultural expression cannot be understood solely by looking at users’ cultural practices, but should be revisited to pay attention to the networked conditions th…
Impersonal subjectivation from platforms to infrastructures
The rapid expansion of social media has led to the concentration of digitized, networked, and mediated processes into the hands of a few giant corporations (e.g. Google, Facebook, and Amazon), their partners and affiliates. From smart watches to targeted advertising and reputation scores, this new political economy of subjectivation – or subject making – sees an intensification of datafication to sell commodities, manipulate moods, inject ideolog…
Economies of reputation: The case of revenge porn
Revenge porn involves publicly releasing pictures of a person’s sexual activity, along with the means to contact that person, to provoke widespread shaming. This paper analyzes the US-based revenge porn website MyEx.com through discourse, legal, and information network analyses. The paper explores how revenge porn is not only an instance of online sexual violence rooted in abjection but also symptomatic of a new political economy of subjectivity,…
Wikipedia leeches? The promotion of traffic through a collaborative web format
This article investigates the circulation of Wikipedia entries on the web in an effort to determine the integration of its collaborative model into existing proprietary web formats. In particular it details the use of Wikipedia content as 'tags' or information that is used to increase traffic to webpages through search engine results. Consequently, the article discusses the need to develop theoretical models that provide for an understanding of b…
Networked campaigns: Traffic tags and cross platform analysis on the web
This article defines a new methodological framework to examine emerging forms of political campaigning on and across Web 2.0 platforms (i.e. Facebook, Youtube, Twitter) in the North-American context. The proposed method seeks to identify the new strategies that make use of campaign text s, users, keywords, information networks and software code to spread a political communications and rally voters across distributed, and therefore seemingly unman…
Networks and Layers: Technocultural Encodings of the World Wide Web
This paper calls for a cultural analysis of the World Wide Web through a focus on the technical layers that shape the Web as a medium. Web technologies need to be acknowledged as not only shaped by social processes, but also deployed, through standardization and automation, as agents that render representation possible by following specific technocultural logics. Thus, the focus is on the relationship between hardware, software, and culture throu…
Election bloggers: Methods for determining political influence
This paper discusses early findings and methodological pitfalls of a study of a hyper–mediated election campaign in Canada. Web logs — or “blogs” — serve as the primary object of study. The paper focuses on possible sources of large scale data (aggregated blogger posts) and methods of determining the political influence of bloggers. A series of methodologies are proposed to resolve the over–reliance upon information aggregators and blog search en…
Networked Publics: The Double Articulation of Code and Politics on Facebook
Through three case studies of online political activism on Facebook, this article conceptualizes the deployment of issue publics (Lippmann, 1993; Marres, 2005) on Facebook. We argue that issue publics on Facebook come into being through a specific set of double articulations of code and politics that link and reshape informational processes, communicational constraints and possibilities, and political practices in different and sometimes contradi…
Blogs I Read”: Partisanship and Party Loyalty in the Canadian Political Blogosphere
This article builds upon current hyperlink mapping research to determine the degree of party loyalty and partisanship in the Canadian political blogosphere. The article develops a hyperlink-based method of determining blogger endorsements as a means of tracking cross-party recommendations. The article concludes that bloggers affiliated with the governing Conservative Party of Canada exhibit the most cohesive ideological and party loyal set of blo…
Wikipedia leeches? The promotion of traffic through a collaborative web format
This article investigates the circulation of Wikipedia entries on the web in an effort to determine the integration of its collaborative model into existing proprietary web formats. In particular it details the use of Wikipedia content as 'tags' or information that is used to increase traffic to webpages through search engine results. Consequently, the article discusses the need to develop theoretical models that provide for an understanding of b…
Participatory Culture and the New Governance of Communication: The Paradox of Participatory Media
This article develops a critical alternative to the common equation between participatory culture and democratic communication and argues that power on online participatory platforms should be understood as the governance of semiotic open-endedness. This article argues that the concept of cultural expression cannot be understood solely by looking at users’ cultural practices, but should be revisited to pay attention to the networked conditions th…
Networked campaigns: Traffic tags and cross platform analysis on the web
This article defines a new methodological framework to examine emerging forms of political campaigning on and across Web 2.0 platforms (i.e. Facebook, Youtube, Twitter) in the North-American context. The proposed method seeks to identify the new strategies that make use of campaign text s, users, keywords, information networks and software code to spread a political communications and rally voters across distributed, and therefore seemingly unman…
What Are the Stakes in Doing Critical Research on Social Media Platforms
One of the key challenges facing social media studies is the capacity to undertake independent, critical research. As the field of social media is massively dominated by corporate players with a vested interest in both privatizing social data and developing proprietary social analytical tools, it is now crucial to advocate for a politics of public social media research
Economies of reputation: The case of revenge porn
Revenge porn involves publicly releasing pictures of a person’s sexual activity, along with the means to contact that person, to provoke widespread shaming. This paper analyzes the US-based revenge porn website MyEx.com through discourse, legal, and information network analyses. The paper explores how revenge porn is not only an instance of online sexual violence rooted in abjection but also symptomatic of a new political economy of subjectivity,…
Debunking the Myth of “Not My Bad”: Sexual Images, Consent, and Online Host Responsibilities in Canada
Non-consensual distribution of intimate images has been a crime in Canada since 2015. This article argues that it is time to consider how online platforms, hosts, and fora that allow users to post sexual images either directly engage in criminal acts or incur responsibility to help suppress this illegal activity. Methods for holding businesses responsible for participating in promoting or facilitating this type of wrongdoing by users should vary …
Distributed Intelligence: Silk Weaving and the Jacquard Mechanism
Background Launched in the early 1800s in Lyon, France, the Jacquard mechanism is often seen as the precursor for today’s software systems, enabling greater productivity in the automated industrial production of woven fabric. Analysis Based on archival research, this media archaeology article argues that the Jacquard mechanism enabled a new form of textile-based digital imaging. Lyon weavers used the mechanism to augment human imagination and str…
Impersonal subjectivation from platforms to infrastructures
The rapid expansion of social media has led to the concentration of digitized, networked, and mediated processes into the hands of a few giant corporations (e.g. Google, Facebook, and Amazon), their partners and affiliates. From smart watches to targeted advertising and reputation scores, this new political economy of subjectivation – or subject making – sees an intensification of datafication to sell commodities, manipulate moods, inject ideolog…
Special Section: Alt-Rights in Canada
Enemy Imaginaries: A Case Study of the Far Right in Canada
Background: Social media and digital technology play a central role in amplifying the potential harms of the far right. Analysis: The concept of enemy imaginaries is developed to map the digital and social media practices of far-right actors and groups in their antagonistic participation with and against a liberal, multicultural, globalist imagined community. Analysis focuses on a dramatic clash at a People’s Party of Canada event in Hamilton, On…
Cosmomedia: Natural Dyes in Japan
This article explores John Durham Peters’ concepts of ‘communication as (impossible) communion’ and ‘elemental media’ by turning to the Japanese traditions of naturally dyed textiles. The article explores the politics of encounter that naturally-dyed textiles enable and links them to the question of world-making. It further examines how the extraction and application of color from the environment engages not only with humans and culture, but with…
Introduction to Special Section: The Mainstreaming of the Canadian Alt-Right
Introduction: The Mainstreaming of the Canadian Alt-Right
Introduction: Connection issues
Digital Reset: Critical and Creative Interventions to Rewire Sense-Making
This paper explores how critical theory, art and performance develop alternatives to the dominant social media paradigm of psycho-social exploitation. Social media short-circuit experience and sense-making through a logic where modes of data exploitation take over the processes of affect and cognition. Tentacular and everywhere, corporate social media giants seem to present two options – either embrace them and their (false) promises or cancel th…
Political science (16 works) · Computer Science (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Social Media and Politics (7 works) · World Wide Web (7 works) · Public relations (6 works) · Business (5 works)