Ethnographie de la structuration d'un corpus collectif de messages de soutien social en ligne

TL;DR

This paper ethnographically examines how a collective corpus of online social support messages is developed and structured through interdisciplinary research practices, highlighting the process of pooling individual corpora.

Contribution

It provides an original ethnographic account of the practices involved in creating and analyzing a shared digital corpus within a collaborative research context.

Findings

Shared corpus results from pooling individual corpora

Researchers' perspectives influence corpus constitution

Initial ethnographic insights into digital document analysis practices

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a study of progressive development of the structure of corpus collected starting from the discussion forums. These are the first results from an ethnographic description of constitution and analysis practices of a corpus located within an interdisciplinary project. At first, we describe the personal digital documents folder of a researcher, relative to his corpus analysis of interactions of social support online. Next, we examine the constitution of a shared corpus, result of the pooling of individual corpora, small size, produced by researchers participating in the project, each individual corpus reflecting his producer's perspectives of research.