La pétition contre la Loi Travail : construction et appropriation de l’évènement par ses acteurs

• Main Authors: Franck Bousquet, Nikos Smyrnaios, Emmanuel Marty
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Presses Universitaires du Mirail 2017-12-01
• Series: Sciences de la Société
• Subjects: petition; law Labour; politics; movement; event; commitment
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/sds/6934

This article proposes to study the petition launched on February 18 against the Labor Law. Its number of signatories as well as the digital networks and initiatives that surrounded it seem to have constituted a political event, in the sense that they seemed to break with the current frameworks on the functioning of French policy. It is, at the same time, this online political movement, initiated by the petition, and by extension its relays, the networks of online interaction that it was able to provoke and its reappropriation by its signatories, that we propose to question in this article. Our objective is to determine the logics of mobilization and their representations. For this purpose, we conducted an analysis of the political configuration that led to the mobilization, a lexicometric study of the comments posted by the signatories of the petition and a work on the interaction networks at work on Twitter around this movement.