Abstract
Tim Berners-Lee, the main inventor of the Web, wanted to develop a device that would allow to both create documents and create links, while offering the possibility to interact with other individuals. Moreover, he thought that it was a compromise between stability and diversity, made possible by its fractal nature. But the Web is in fact a radically unequal network, even if its democratic properties are real. Since 2010, the conception of information literacy has necessarily evolved, because the potential offered by the Web has been severely limited by the development of powerful digital platforms. Their effects on the spreading of information relate to both the fake news and the well-established facts. Berners-Lee now hopes for a kind of rebirth of the Web. Is it possible? In any case, he invites us to concern ourselves with the policy that it would be desirable to promote, if we want to better train citizens in access to information, acquisition of knowledge and formation of opinions in a new public sphere which has gone digital. Two consequences of the digitization are especially to consider. First, digital methods bring considerable profits, especially in terms of the quantity of data processed, but the treatments carried out are not always clearly explained and their users are not always able to understand them. Second, hidden writing is a part of digital media: the old constraints weighing on the printed text could be ignored, while the new ones are unavoidable because they belong to the technical system itself.
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WEB, INFORMATION LITERACY, PUBLIC SPHERE, HIDDEN WRITING
