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Selon la théorie sociométrique de l'estime de soi (Sociometer Theory; Leary, Tambor, Terdal, & Downs, 1995), la satisfaction des besoins d'affiliation contribue de façon significative à une saine estime de soi. Il est concevable que la plate-forme des réseaux sociaux virtuels permette aux personnes de satisfaire leurs besoins d'affiliation, en plus d'offrir à celles possédant une faible estime de soi l'occasion de combler un manque d'affiliation dans leurs interactions sociales. Toutefois, plusieurs études (Forest & Wood, 2012) suggèrent que les personnes dont l'estime de soi est faible (FES), relativement aux personnes chez qui elle est haute (HES), tendent à se montrer plus négatives sur les réseaux sociaux – Facebook, en particulier – ce qui diminue la quantité de rétroactions positives qu'elles reçoivent et fait en …

Despite the importance of interpersonal contact to students’ sense of community, little is known about how online students form relationships outside of class. Drawing on interviews with 20 students from one online doctoral program, I explore the ways in which distance learners create community outside of class. In the case study I explore how students use social media and group texting apps to develop relationships with peers. I also explore how online students connect in-person at study groups and sporting events. Lastly, I consider the ways in which a three-day, in-person orientation helped online students connect on and offline. Findings indicate that online students’ perceptions of community were not limited to their in-class experiences. In addition to their in-class interactions, online students were impacted by their extracurricular interactions in digital and physical spaces.

Keywords: community, online learning, social presence, face-to-face interaction, orientation

Without making an evaluative and comparative analysis of the traditional arguments, we would want to examine the reference of the voluntary servitude when it is used to denounce an illusion of increase of the freedom of the individual, by means of information and communication technology. Basing on the original version (16e s.), is this reference justified ? In this paper, we would like to show that if there is a structure of the voluntary servitude, the debate between the defender of the information and communication technology and their opponents, involves thinking the relation between the humanity with the technology.

Keywords: Philosophie, liberté, servitude volontaire, technologies d'information et de communication, réseaux sociaux, Philosophy, freedom, voluntary servitude, information and communication technologies

The expansion and systematic use of online networks in the Canadian Arctic regions since the early 2000s open up a new field of observation and analysis in anthropology. Following field researches conducted in Sanikiluaq (Nunavut, Canada) between 2007 and 2010, this paper explores the discourses and practices related to Inuit kinship on social networking websites. Based on the analysis of personal profiles from Bebo and Facebook pages, it especially deals with the Qikirtamiut (i.e. Islanders) relational knowledge and its practices and diffusion on the Internet. The question of the parental use of the Internet in Sanikiluaq is all the more relevant as some young parents describe the context of intergenerational transmission as problematic – both in terms of circulation of knowledge, and family and community settings changes.

Keywords: Dupré, Inuit, parenté, Sanikiluaq, sites de réseaux sociaux, transmission des savoirs, Dupré, Inuit, Kinship, Sanikiluaq, Social Networking Websites, Knowledge Transmission, Dupré, Inuit, parentesco, Sanikiluaq, sitios de redes sociales, transmisión de conocimientos

This article suggests analyzing the reconfigurations of activism through the lenses of digital technology. Our survey focuses on the life narratives of two (ex)members of the French Socialist Party. We shall see that to militate on-line can be considered at the same time as a form of reconversion, an answer to a “critical moment” in a member's trajectory, and a chance at a political career.

Keywords: Internet, militantisme, désengagement, Facebook, parti politique, Internet, militancy, disengagement, Facebook, political party

The authors examine the production of meaning by teenage girls when appropriating the content of a Netflix online series, 13 Reasons Why, that depicts a suicide by a young woman. The media's widespread concern about the potential negative effects of the series has given rise to a climate of fear. Through a thematic analysis of the comments published by teenage girls on the Facebook page of the series, the authors seek to answer questions related to three dimensions of reception: the context of viewing, the appropriation of the content, and the context of moral panic.

Keywords: 13 Reasons Why (série télévisée), adolescence, études sur les filles, média pour la jeunesse, suicide

Keywords: Médias sociaux, dotation, vie privée, consentement

This article aims to understand how the use of digital technology and of social media can constitute a new communication tool for heritage site managers and tourism stakeholders. We examined the strategies of tourism actors and professionals, and questioned their uses, practices, and the way they envision the relations to be established with “tourists-consumers.” How can the role of the tourist in the tourist experience be reconsidered through social networks? During this exploratory and qualitative research conducted with stakeholders in the city of Naples, through semi-directive interviews and the analysis of reviews posted on the Internet by visitors to these three sites, three main elements appeared: the diversity of postures and uses, the emergence of discursive marketing enabling stakeholders to refine or even co-construct the proposed offer, and the new role attributed to tourists beyond the usual dyadic relationship tourist actor/visitor.

Keywords: tourism, social media, alternative tourism, social network analysis, tourism experience, co-creation., tourisme, réseaux sociaux, tourisme alternatif, expérience touristique, analyse des réseaux sociaux, co-création.

For five years, as part of my doctoral research in Religious Studies, I conducted an ethnographic study in Québec on Druidry, a transnational Contemporary Pagan tradition considered by its practitioners to be the reconstruction and reinvention of the pre-Christian religious system of the Celtic peoples. Using the principles of the grounded theory approach, I documented and analyzed what I call the making of the Neo-Druidic tradition in Québec, namely, the process through which Québec Neo-Druids are bringing Ancient druidism back to life in their space-time. The objective of this article is to present this doctoral research, particularly in its ethnographic dimension.