L’injonction à participer au monde numérique
This article questions the discourses of researchers since the decades 2000–2010 who put forward the idea that the Web would be animated by a “participation” of the users to the digital world. But what does “participation” means exactly : isn’t it a simple illusion, a semantic ruse of the powerful t...
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2017-09-01
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| description | This article questions the discourses of researchers since the decades 2000–2010 who put forward the idea that the Web would be animated by a “participation” of the users to the digital world. But what does “participation” means exactly : isn’t it a simple illusion, a semantic ruse of the powerful to exploit more subtly the users ? Or, on the contrary, could this type of interpellation lead to a more democratic distribution of the ability to act towards agents that are a priori remote from the centres of power ? To participate supposes that the individual takes part in the situation in such a way that he can possibly modify the state of things by his contributive gestures. Does the rhetorical insistence of analysts to find the existence of this “participation” not tantamount to playing the game of the big companies of the Internet ? Today, the capture of traces opens up to a permanent commodification of human time and the monetization of attention. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-87466da3217a4d6e9965739baac2d8fa2025-01-13T13:44:41ZengUniversité du Québec à MontréalCommuniquer2368-95872017-09-0120152710.4000/communiquer.2308L’injonction à participer au monde numériqueSerge ProulxThis article questions the discourses of researchers since the decades 2000–2010 who put forward the idea that the Web would be animated by a “participation” of the users to the digital world. But what does “participation” means exactly : isn’t it a simple illusion, a semantic ruse of the powerful to exploit more subtly the users ? Or, on the contrary, could this type of interpellation lead to a more democratic distribution of the ability to act towards agents that are a priori remote from the centres of power ? To participate supposes that the individual takes part in the situation in such a way that he can possibly modify the state of things by his contributive gestures. Does the rhetorical insistence of analysts to find the existence of this “participation” not tantamount to playing the game of the big companies of the Internet ? Today, the capture of traces opens up to a permanent commodification of human time and the monetization of attention.https://journals.openedition.org/communiquer/2308participationinformational capitalismWeb platformsmonetizationdigital economy |
| spellingShingle | Serge Proulx L’injonction à participer au monde numérique Communiquer participation informational capitalism Web platforms monetization digital economy |
| title | L’injonction à participer au monde numérique |
| title_full | L’injonction à participer au monde numérique |
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| title_short | L’injonction à participer au monde numérique |
| title_sort | l injonction a participer au monde numerique |
| topic | participation informational capitalism Web platforms monetization digital economy |
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