Louise Merzeau
Louise Merzeau | |
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Born | Sylvie Louise Lucienne Merzeau 8 November 1963 15th arrondissement of Paris |
Died | 15 July 2017 (aged 53) 20th arrondissement of Paris |
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Website | http://merzeau.net |
Sylvie Merzeau (commonly called Louise Merzeau, 8 November 1963 – 15 July 2017[1]) was a French academic, university professor at the Paris Nanterre University (specializing in communication studies) and a photographer.
Merzeau was a trustee of
Biography
Louise Merzeau was a former student of the École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud (L1982 promotion) and a qualified teacher of contemporary literature (1985).[2][3] Her doctoral thesis "From scriptural to index: text, photography, document" in 1993 was written under supervision of Nicole Boulestreau. She passed her habilitation to conduct research in 2011 on the subject of the concept of memory in the age of internet. In 2016, she became a university professor at Paris-Nanterre.[4] She was a co-director of the Nanterre research laboratory Dicen-IDF and member of the e.laboratory on Human Trace Complex System Digital Campus UNESCO.
Merzeau's research was inspired by the concept of mediology designed by Régis Debray and was primarily about the relations between culture and technology, in particular, on the technological, institutional, and sociological aspects of memory. She has designed the concept of hypersphere to extend the list of mediaspheres initially proposed by Debray, to characterize sociological and technical ecosystems associated with the development of the internet. She was the chief co-editor of the journal Les cahiers de médiologie during several years.
Merzeau also focused on the question of traces – that she developed with researchers like
In March 2015, Sylvie directed in collaboration with Lionel Barbe and Valérie Schafer the publication of a collective book on Wikipedia.[9]
Her research switches to the notion of editorialisation, that she developed with researchers like Marcello Vitali-Rosati of the University of Montréal and Gérard Wormser of the journal Sens Public. This notion centers the question of traces on writing processes seen as collective interaction and technical contexts.
Louise Merzeau was also involved in web archiving through the workshops on methodological research of legal web deposits at INA, where she supervised scientific aspects from 2010 to her death.
She also has an activity of numeric and
Sylvie died on July 15, 2017.[10]
References
- ^ "Louise Merzeau nous a quittés" (in French). Dicen-IDF. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
- ^ HAL. "CV HAL: Louise Merzeau". cv.archives-ouvertes.fr (in French). Retrieved 2017-07-26.
- ^ "Salut Louise". affordance.info. Retrieved 2017-07-26.
- ^ Décret du 15 décembre 2016 portant nomination, titularisation et affectation (enseignements supérieurs), retrieved 2017-07-26
- ^ "Louise Merzeau: "Il n'y a pas de mémoire sans une pensée de l'oubli"". Archimag (in French). Retrieved 2017-07-27.
- ^ "Facebook, Twitter, Instagram: fictions de soi". France Culture (in French). 2 March 2017. Retrieved 2017-07-27.
- ^ "Réseaux sociaux: sommes-nous tous des Big Brothers ?". France Culture (in French). Retrieved 2017-07-27.
- ^ Merzeau, Louise. "Copier-coller" (PDF). Médium: Transmettre pour Innover, ed. Babylone, 2012, pp.312–333.: 312–333.
- ISSN 1950-6244. Retrieved 2017-07-26.
- ^ "Exclusions, menaces, budget recalé: c'est la crise chez Wikimédia France". L'Obs (in French). Retrieved 2017-07-26.