The Interdisciplinary Research Centre founded in 1988 – CITA- is focalized on scientific issues regarding interactions between ICTs and Society (Cellule Interdisciplinaire de Technology Assessment    

The originality of the CITA is to be located in a computer science faculty playing the role of a human sciences interface between computer scientists and research centres in charge of the legal regulation of ICT developments and practices.

Four main questions support the dynamics of the CITA team

• Social meanings of new technologies : surveillance technologies and the body paradigm, social networks and liquid modernity…
• Impacts of new technologies : E-government and individualization of the public management, Internet and new patterns of socialization for the teens…
• Value sensitive design of technologies : Medical emergency co-ordinator, profiles and contextualization technologies…
• Democratic Governance of technologies : public voice and the deliberation of surveillance technologies…

Currently promoter and co-promoter of more than 50 research projects for North-American European, National and Regional programmes amongst them, three projects belonging to Belgian programme of excellence.

Author or co-author of 120 publications (books, chapters of books, papers and contributions to proceedings).

To sustain the scientific dynamics of this research, organization of, since 2005, a cycle of international doctoral seminars about a specific issue of the Information Society :

•   2007 : Communication and Society : technical rationality, ethical rationality and democratic governance (around J. Habermas)
•   2008 : Information Society : Trust and Governance, the engagement in a uncertain world
• 2009 : On Body, embodiment and contemporary technologies, Towards which modes of subjectivity under contemporary technology?

Books published in 2009