Pierre Lévy
Pierre Lévy is a French philosopher of contemporary virtual culture. He lives in Paris and teaches in the Hypermedia Department at the University of Paris-VIII. He was encouraged and trained by Michel Serres and Cornelius Castoriadis to become a researcher. He specialized in hypertextual approaches while teaching at the University of Ottawa, Canada. After graduating, he focused on analyzing and explaining the interactions between the Internet and society. He developed a network concept, together with Michel Authier, known as Arbres de connaissances (Trees of Knowledge). Lévy also researches collective intelligence focusing on an anthropological context, and is one of the leading media philosophers today. His research focuses mainly on the area of cybernetics. As a result, he has become one of the leading scholars on the Internet, which, being a recent informational medium, does not yet have well-defined dimensions of impact and application.



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