Prises de positions et influences sur le web : le cas de l’information de santé

• Main Author: Amar Lakel
• Format: Article
• Language: fra
• Published: Société Française de Sciences de l’Information et de la Communication 2019-12-01
• Series: Revue Française des Sciences de l’Information et de la Communication
• Subjects: health information; Internet; digital methods; influence; position; socio-semantic
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/rfsic/8376

Online health information is a field covered by many research in web studies. Public health issues and the transformation of the digital publishing make it a natural object of research, but also an object of public controversy. In the framework of this article, we propose to apply a new research protocol in order to identify a sociology of influencers on the internet through the study of discourse on asthma in children. This contribution is also intended to be a discussion / proposal on the methodological challenges of the use of digital methods in a socio-semantic approach through the concepts of "position" and influence. How to analyze the strategic positions of speakers in a heterogeneous and complex corpus? How does this analysis contribute to the operationalization of an online sociology of controversy?