Digital transitions

Here you'll find all the research relating to digital transitions carried out at CNRS Humanities & Social Sciences and its laboratories.

Like other contemporary transitions, the digital transition is a global turning point that has profoundly affected today's humanities and social sciences. The new scientific issues raised by the integration of technologies, their production, methods and philosophy into research include the ethics of algorithms and artificial intelligence, natively digital artistic creations, the digitisation of heritage, the digital economy, blockchains and new currencies, the sociology of networks, Internet law, e-tech, man-machine interfaces and the digital conversion of methods for disseminating science.

The digital transition affects both the objects of 'datafied' knowledge and the methods used to discover, analyse and validate these. It involves prior training and also the epistemology of the social sciences and humanities as well as the way in which these interact with society later in the process with the dissemination of knowledge, technology transfer in the form of start-ups and so forth. The methodological breaks with the past involved in the digital humanities and computational social sciences are inseparable from this transformation. It is also important to study these and support researchers and their teams.

Research centers and networks

Laboratories in other countries

Research Program

  • CNRS Humanities & Social Sciences is involved in the ICCARE Priority Research Programme and Equipment or PEPR with funding from the Investments for the Future programme PIA4. Solveig Serre and David Coeurjolly lead the programme for the CNRS.
  • CNRS Humanities & Social Sciences is involved in the VDBI Priority Research Programme and Equipment or PEPR with funding from the Investments for the Future programme PIA4. Jean-Yves Toussaint and Gilles Gesquières lead the programme for the CNRS.

Chaire de professeur junior

  • CNRS Sciences humaines & sociales a proposé une chaire de professeur junior sur l’ « Intelligence artificielle en sciences humaines et sociales (IASHS) » en 2022. Cette chaire a débouché sur le recrutement d’un agent, affecté à l’Institut des Systèmes Complexes de Paris Île-de-France (ISC-PIF) à compter de 2023.