Réseaux sociaux

Social networks play an important role in the lives of teenagers. Faced with the risks of addiction and exposure to extreme content, the question of an age limit for accessing platforms is becoming increasingly important.

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The Leaning Tower of Pisa, which celebrates its 850th birthday in 2023, has tilted more and more from year to year since its construction, due to problematic ground conditions, until the 1990s, when, threatening to collapse, it was solidly stabilized. But fortunately for Tuscan tourism, it's still tilting. Which, in the age of Instagram, seems to shake visitors' equilibrium a little!

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The digital revolution, from the birth of television to the present day, is characterized by increasingly personalized use of technology. As a result, people's sense of belonging to a common world can be eroded.

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Each month, we feature a column by one of the personalities who give us the pleasure of alternating between the two. Youtuber Ralph Müller, a doctoral student in literature at the University of Geneva, delivers his scathing analysis of a typical contemporary phenomenon.

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Le Regard Libre N° 73 - Jean-David Ponci

With Obama, the United States is usually seen as beginning to relinquish its role as the world's policeman. This trend is accelerating with Trump, whose «America First» slogan sounds of the USA turning in on itself. However, it is curiously at the end of Trump's term that a new global power, still in American hands, is showing its might. GAFAM, the acronym for the major companies Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft, are censoring certain content for political reasons, revealing to the scandalized world that they are more than just service providers. This historic situation is an opportune moment to reflect on the conditions required to guarantee freedom of expression on the Net.

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