D’une double appropriation à une interactivité revisitée : une étude des usages d’Internet par des bénévoles québécois et tunisiens luttant contre le sida

• Main Author: Synda Ben Affana
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Université du Québec à Montréal 2010-01-01
• Series: Communiquer
• Subjects: appropriation; social usage; technology of information and communication; interactivity; communication practices
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/communiquer/377

This article presents the results of a study on the social appropriation of the Internet by Quebec and Tunisian volunteers fighting against the AIDS. By using a qualitative research method inspired by the rooted theorization, we’ve observed a double appropriation, that of a technology and that of a groupal process. The users instrumentalized the virtual to communicate both with the other peculiar and with the other who is geographically close. The asymmetry of the interactive practices observed between both groups of volunteers is not considered to be a failure of appropriation, but rather as an indicator of appropriation of a technology and of a process of groupal interaction, strongly anchored in the pre-existing socio-technical usages and in the sociocultural and organisational contexts.