traces numériques

Chapitres de livre

Tinkering with method as we go: An account of capturing digital traces of work on social media

This chapter presents the qualitative method we developed to document a phenomenon that we have called ‘working out loud’ (WOL) on social media. Working out loud is a mundane practice where workers of all kinds communicate something about their daily experience of doing their work and being at work. This character makes WOL simultaneously widespread […] Lire la suite

Chapitres de livre

Small data, thick data : Thickening strategies for trace-based social media research

The algorithmic processing of very large sets of ‘traces’ of user activities collected by digital platforms – so-called ‘Big Data’ – exerts a strong appeal on social media researchers. In the context of a computational turn in social sciences and humanities, is qualitative research based on small samples and corpuses (‘small data’) still relevant? It […] Lire la suite

Rapports de recherche

Circulation de l’information sur les médias sociaux pendant la grève étudiante de 2012 au Québec

Ce rapport fait état des résultats d’une recherche commandée par le Centre d’études sur les médias, au sujet de la circulation de l’information dans les médias sociaux pendant la grève étudiante de 2012 au Québec. Le projet visait à documenter empiriquement si et comment les jeunes ont utilisé Facebook pour s’informer, discuter et se forger […] Lire la suite