| Summary: | This paper presents a discussion on the challenges brought out by digital technologies. Objects, methods and research topics in the humanities and social sciences, and especially in information and communication sciences (ICS), have been impacted by digital media. Digital media are defined with regards to their relation to hypertext and hypermedia, and the transverse influence of information technology on mediations is analyzed in order to address the question of the convergence between digital technologies and humanities, and the need of transdisciplinarity that results from it. The holistic transformations caused by digital technologies require a more complex approach to human activities, including scientific research itself, and thus integrating multiple theories. Emerging problematic in the field of ICS could constitute an opportunity to position themselves as a pivotal discipline that can focus (themselves on) the relationship between, and within the engineering sciences and humanities. The discussion concludes with prospects concerning future transverse issues about locating and accessing cloud-stored data, collective memories and digital traces, and the new boundaries, or “borders,” which result from the spreading of ITs. The growing impact of digital technologies in human activities confirms the importance of developing a deep reflection on the “ethics” of the information society.
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