For the second year in a row, the heads of four master's degrees(Culture & Web Professions; Corporate Communication and Social Media; Digital Studies and Innovation" and "Change Management, Skills and Organization") are publishing the work of their students.
Under the title " Les Mondes Numériques" , this blog hosts numerous articles on the sociology of digital worlds.
The work covers a wide range of topics: digital practices of teenagers, sociability on social networks (SnapChat, Pinterest, Pokemon, Instagram, Waze), effects of digital on sectors (such as publishing or trade), on education (introduction of tablets in school, learning foreign languages on online platforms, on practices (such as job hunting), or the relationship to oneself.
Depending on the topic, students will summarize recent studies or provide the results of qualitative surveys of application users.
The topics covered are often related to current events: "Trolls and Haters on the Web", "Study on Facebook alert and information pages", "Conspiracy 2.0", "How the Internet and new digital technologies allow for a new form of harassment", "Disinformation, a phenomenon amplified by the Web".
Gender issues are often present: "Female identity in advertising and on dating sites", "Revenge porn, a reflection of a patriarchal society?", "The representation of female hair on the web", "Antifeminism on the internet".
It is noteworthy that several of the dissertations published deal with practices that give a large place to photography: " The relationship to the body and the self on social networks: application to the case of Instagram", "Instagram: The reality behind our photos", "The SnapChat phenomenon", "The selfie beyond the simple representation of the self", "The new place of the image and photography in a world of Web 2.0", "Narrating oneself in images: the story of social networks".