Between 2017 and 2018, after Trump’s arrival in the White House, “woke” entered the dictionary and everyday language. Criticism grew against the word as it moved away from its African-American roots with its appropriation by the general public and then the emergence of the #MeToo movement. In the U.S, 2017…

How did this term from the United States, long exchanged between insiders before going viral on social networks, come to be used in the activist world? And what exactly are we talking about when we label a person, a speech or a progressive movement as ‘woke’? ❶ The first occurrences of the 20th century In the literal sense…

In his program at the beginning of February devoted to the “American divide”, Alain Finkielkraut asks the following question to his guest Roger Cohen (head of the Paris office of the New York Times): “What exactly is a woke, and do you fear that this woke movement is growing too…

Stuck somewhere between the dominant Just Chatting and video games, the Twitch Art category is slowly making its mark. Here’s a little exploration. On Friday at 22:30, while France is painfully chasing the second episode of a Netflix series or a surprise speech by Emmanuel Macron, the real ones know…

What if you could tell Facebook which ads you like and let YouTube know about your love of 90s California hip-hop? A truly personalized algorithm… win-win. CTRLZ wanted to explore this algorithmic utopia. At first, everything was fine. You got to know each other, he surprised you with daring and…

Although they are not new, ‘daily’ memes are experiencing a resurgence in popularity with the health crisis, particularly on Twitter. How can this phenomenon be explained? What does it say about our relationship with time (in times of pandemic) and humour (at work)? “Thursday what a concept”, “Captain it’s only…

From pioneering cryptophiles to the luxury industry, via media billionaires, NFT is rapidly becoming popular. Even to the average Internet user? CTRLZ takes a look at the situation with Manuel Valente, research director of Coinhouse, and Andrew CM, co-founder of Valuables. $ 2.9 million. That’s what Twitter founder Jack Dorsey’s…

Je vous propose aujourd’hui une conversation très calme sur un terme très polémique qu’il est difficile d’éviter en ce moment dans les médias et que j’ai moi-même muté de Twitter : l’islamo-gauchisme. …

Coincée quelque part entre les Just Chatting dominants et le jeu vidéo, la catégorie Art de Twitch fait peu à peu son trou. Petite exploration. Vendredi 22h30, alors que la France enchaine péniblement sur un deuxième épisode de série Netflix ou une allocution surprise d’Emmanuel Macron, les vrais savent qu’une…