SFR Agorantic - Culture, Heritage, Digital Societies

Activities

The SFR Agorantic is an interdisciplinary Federative Research Structure whose main supervisory body is Avignon University. This federation brings together 8 research laboratories (member units) and a growing number of project-based associate units. Its main objective is to study the societal issues associated with the development of digital technology. 

Agorantic aims to mobilise and federate teams of researchers from different disciplinary backgrounds on projects and scientific themes associating, on the one hand, Human and Social Sciences (SHS), and on the other hand, computer science and mathematics. The aim is for all the partners involved to pool their expertise in order to promote the emergence of a centre of excellence in digital humanities. 

Agorantic's scientific objectives are closely linked to the issues raised by digital innovations (the Web, social networks, big data) and computer science (algorithms, recommendation engines, language processing, codes, technical support) in the worlds of culture, territorial management and political governance. It is these technological, cultural and societal innovations and their interactions with the technological and symbolic uses of participative or collaborative approaches that shape the central concept of the SFR Agorantic “Culture, Heritage, Digital Societies”. This desire for openness to the diversity of forms and issues motivates the inclusion of all our projects in a unique multi-disciplinary approach that consists of bringing together - as far as possible - the concepts, theoretical frameworks and methodologies of the different disciplinary fields involved.

On the Internet http://agorantic.univ-avignon.fr/

ORGANISATION

RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS

• Avignon University

MEMBER UNITS

• Inter-University Centre for Medieval History and Archaeology (UMR CNRS 5648 CIHAM)
• Norbert Elias Centre (UMR CNRS 8562 CNE)
• UPR 3788 -JPEG - Legal, Political, Economic and Management Sciences Laboratory
• ESPACE Laboratory (UMR CNRS 7300)
• Avignon Computer Science Laboratory (LIA)
• Avignon Mathematics Laboratory (LMA)
• Cultural Identity, Texts and Theatricality Laboratory (ICTT)
• Mediterranean Institute of Biodiversity and Marine and Continental Ecology (UMR CNRS 7263-IRD 237 IMBE)
• INRIA Sophia Antipolis

Direction
Vincent Labatut (LIA) and Gaël Depoorter (JPEG)

Research activities

The SFR's activities focus on 5 research areas:

• Methodologies and Interdisciplinarity
• Culture and Digital
• Policy(ies), transparency and ethics
• Experiences and narratives of the urban
• Corpus structuring and exploitation (SEC)

Further information

Skills and know-how

• Processing of large language corpora on social networks.
• Sociological methods for surveying actual/potential audiences.
• Digital writing of heritage / cultural mediation.
• Risk forecasting and prevention.
• Intelligent mobility.