Under the title " Thinking data through the territory ", Balisages, the research journal of Enssib (École nationale supérieure des sciences de l'information et des bibliothèques) devotes a thematic dossier to the question of digital territory and its spatial, community and epistemic configurations.
This issue, coordinated by Emmanuel Brandl, Geoffroy Gawin and Valérie Larroche, aims to "refine the notion of digital territory by questioning its capacity to account for social life and cultural practices in cyberspace, defined as a digital space made up of all planetary information systems.
The specificity of the proposed approach lies in the choice to focus only on activities that do not depend on a geographical space.
The approach to digital territories proposed by the coordinators of this dossier differs from those that willingly claim to be an "augmented" territory, a physical territory whose actors' capacities are amplified by digital resources.
Two in-depth interviews, one with Dominique Boullier and the other with Pierre Musso, open the dossier and attempt to deconstruct the notion of digital territory.
The authors of the contributions approach the notion of digital territory in three different ways: through the analysis of the processes and modalities of the self, through the analysis of the reconfigurations of access to knowledge, or through the "identification of attentional foci".
Camille Alloing and Mariannig Le Béchec are interested in the logics of territorialization of organizations through the analysis of ordinary practices played out in digital media. In particular, they study cultural projects financed by the Ulule.com platform and organizations (commercial, institutional) present on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. They observe the forms of territorialization allowed by the practices and use of social media.Kaouther Azouz invites us to consider the evolution of the appropriation of cyberspace by places of knowledge (libraries, museums and archives), and believes that it leads to "interconnected spaces of knowledge. It extends the question of the impact of the web of data on previously existing digital territories, and, on the other hand, to think the articulation between space, place of knowledge and digital territory.Emmanuel Ngué Um and Jean-Paul Ndindjock emphasize the essential role played by the search engines most used by Internet users, "one of the actors of techno-power. The latter determines discursive digital territories through an algorithmic logic that draws attentional focuses, which can be identified by keywords. Based on the extraction of discourse from WhatsApp and Twitter and a textometric method, their analysis shows that "the denser a pole is in terms of the quantity of discourse it crystallizes, the more important the digital territory it produces is and the more attention it provides for Internet users.Based on the experience of BiblioLabs, a tool for processing data related to publications and research projects that has undergone numerous evolutions, Luc Bellier, Henri Bretel and Laurence Gandois propose a reflexive review of the conditions for producing a " data territory " that reflects an "institutional territory.
Céline Leclaire reports on the creation of a new version of the Schéma numérique 2020 of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF), which took the form of a heuristic map and a document reflecting it. This feedback highlights the power of the intersection of digital tools with each person's understanding of the map, in a collective achievement. The author notes that the cartographic work undertaken has made it possible to distinguish parts of the territory that were unknown and to bring to light areas that already existed, but which had remained invisible until then.Based on her study of a self-publishing platform, carried out from a questionnaire sent to 200 self-published authors, Stéphanie Parmentier believes that this platform is not limited to a commercial site function, but is part of a digital territory. " This association comes from the identification of a host land, a population, a governance, monetized exchange flows and specific services to support authors.
Contents
- Valérie Larroche, Geoffroy Gawin and Emmanuel Brandl: Thinking data through the territory?
- Interview with Dominique Boullier
- Interview with Pierre Musso
- Camille Alloing and Mariannig Le Béchec: The platform as a border. Tracking the layout of digital territories
- Emmanuel Ngué Um and Jean-Paul Ndindjock: The dynamics of cybernetic discourses. Meeting point between "digital territory" and "discursive community" on social networks?
- Kaouther Azouz: From digital knowledge places to interconnected knowledge spaces? Appropriation, territoriality and new spatial configurations of the web
- Luc Bellier, Henri Bretel and Laurence Gandois: Understanding the research perimeter at Paris-Saclay University. The implementation of BiblioLabs
- Céline Leclaire: How a map came to the world. The BnF's 2020 digital scheme or the digital challenge of its representation
- Stéphanie Parmentier: Writing and publishing platforms or the controlled expansion of digital territories
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