De la communauté à l’écume : quels concepts de sociabilité pour le « web social » ?
In this paper we propose to examine the « social Web » according to the relations between interactive online applications and forms of sociability. A typology of the systems that make up the social Web is put forward. We analyze three concepts of sociability – community, network, and crowd – and int...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | fra |
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Association de Recherche en Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication
2010-05-01
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| Series: | Tic & Société |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/ticetsociete/822 |
| Summary: | In this paper we propose to examine the « social Web » according to the relations between interactive online applications and forms of sociability. A typology of the systems that make up the social Web is put forward. We analyze three concepts of sociability – community, network, and crowd – and introduce a fourth one, Peter Sloterdijk’s “foam”, to take get grip on the ephemeral and instable relations that proliferate on the Internet. We show how the triplet foam – bubble – membrane can shed light on the new socio-technical configurations, which are characterized by mass-individuality, oscillating between relation and isolation. |
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| ISSN: | 1961-9510 |