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The article delves into the emergence and various interpretations of digital hermeneutics, exploring its philosophical, epistemological, and ontological dimensions, as well as its intersection with fields like digital humanities and communication sciences. It focuses on the book "Digital Hermeneutics: Philosophical Investigations in New Media and Technologies" published by the author(s) in 2019, discussing the evolution of the concept and its interdisciplinary nature.

The article focuses on analyzing tactics aimed at challenging the gaze of power within the realms of art and citizen activism, with a specific examination of the work of artist and theorist Hito Steyerl. Topics include questioning the digital and algorithmic shifts in visual culture and exploring the operating modes and tactics of digital sousveillance, particularly obfuscation and (counter-)simulation, as strategies to unveil the illusions and machinations of surveillance capitalism.

The article reports on the works of Christophe Bruno in the field of Web 2.0 technologies including graph theory, quantitative linguistics and neural networks. Topics include use of essential Google search engines, question of the globalization of languages and collecting royalties from internet user clicks on the advertising link.