Dominique Cardon is a sociologist working in France Telecom Usage Laboratory and associated researcher at the Centre for Research on Social Movements at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales.
His research focuses on relations between use of new technologies and cultural and media activities. The interconnection between sociability and the public arena is the starting point for his studies relating to cultural practices, alternative media, and ”interactive” television programmes. He is particularly interested in the use of new technologies by international militants in the counter globalization movement.
His research focuses on Internet use and transformations of the digital arena. His recent research concerns Internet social networks, online forms of identity, amateur production, and the analysis of forms of cooperation and governance in the big online collectives. He is currently engaged in a sociological analysis of the algorithms controlling the organization of information online. He has published, amongst others, Discipline but not punish: The governance of Wikipedia (2012), The Internet Democracy (2010) and Mediactivises (2010).