Ethnographie de la structuration d'un corpus collectif de messages de soutien social en ligne
This work addresses the challenge of corpus development for researchers in digital humanities or social sciences, but it appears incremental as it focuses on early descriptive findings without major methodological breakthroughs.
The paper tackles the problem of understanding how a collective corpus of online social support messages is structured, presenting initial ethnographic results on the transition from individual researcher folders to a shared corpus.
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.