2024-08-05 14:00:05
Why does the crowd have a bad name? Do you really need a leader? Can you be alone in a crowd? And what about the crowd in the digital world, yet without a physical body?
Around the army of questions: element of the answers as well Elena Bovo, lecturer in Italian literature and civilization at the University of Franche-Comté; and author of many publications on popular demand. It is called new Crowd Mechanics – Movements out of Control ?, an original essay at the intersection of sociology, history and philosophy; Posted by Armand Colin on March 2024.
And from a scientific point of view, can we understand a crowd? In any case, this is the mission entrusted to the European transdisciplinary project. Crowd DNA, where researchers in physics, computer science and biology observe, capture, model and simulate people, to better predict them. But each crowd, in its multitude, is unique! Julien Pettre is a research director at INRIA and one of the project managers of the DNA Crowd. His own study of people is not about any people, it belongs to them Hell, the biggest metal festival in France! He explained how and why to decipher the DNA of people, in the microphone Raphaëlle Pluskwa.
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