Volume 48, Issue 2, May 2020, Pages 116–128
Rodrigue Sèdjrofidé Montcho1
1 Département de Sociologie-Anthropologie, FLASH/Université de Parakou, Benin
Original language: French
Copyright © 2020 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Concerns, contempt and indifference, forms of social interaction objectifying, among other things, the difficulties that societies face, are exported today through social media. Digital consubstantial with social life also becomes a fertilizer for the expression of social phenomena such as worry, contempt, indifference and violence of all kinds. Faced with the difficulties they create, the victims develop many adaptation strategies in the city of Cotonou. This research aims to analyze the adaptation strategies of actors to the "worries, contempt and indifference" linked to new media in the city of Cotonou. To achieve this objective, a qualitative methodological approach based on the ethnomethodological approach is adopted. 75 resource persons were contacted by reasoned choice and snowball techniques. New forms of worry, contempt and indifference are produced through social media in the city of Cotonou. Their changes are linked to the individualization of socio-digital trajectories and the poorly regulated hyper-accessibility of new media. However, several adaptation strategies are developed by the actors according to their representations. With the persistence of deviance, the challenge of responsible digital education deserves to be taken up more.
Author Keywords: Social media, worries, contempt, indifference, adaptation strategies, Cotonou.
Rodrigue Sèdjrofidé Montcho1
1 Département de Sociologie-Anthropologie, FLASH/Université de Parakou, Benin
Original language: French
Copyright © 2020 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
Concerns, contempt and indifference, forms of social interaction objectifying, among other things, the difficulties that societies face, are exported today through social media. Digital consubstantial with social life also becomes a fertilizer for the expression of social phenomena such as worry, contempt, indifference and violence of all kinds. Faced with the difficulties they create, the victims develop many adaptation strategies in the city of Cotonou. This research aims to analyze the adaptation strategies of actors to the "worries, contempt and indifference" linked to new media in the city of Cotonou. To achieve this objective, a qualitative methodological approach based on the ethnomethodological approach is adopted. 75 resource persons were contacted by reasoned choice and snowball techniques. New forms of worry, contempt and indifference are produced through social media in the city of Cotonou. Their changes are linked to the individualization of socio-digital trajectories and the poorly regulated hyper-accessibility of new media. However, several adaptation strategies are developed by the actors according to their representations. With the persistence of deviance, the challenge of responsible digital education deserves to be taken up more.
Author Keywords: Social media, worries, contempt, indifference, adaptation strategies, Cotonou.
Abstract: (french)
Les soucis, mépris et les indifférences, formes d’interaction sociale objectivant, entre autres, les difficultés auxquelles les sociétés sont confrontées, s’exportent aujourd’hui à travers les médias sociaux. Le numérique consubstantiel à la vie sociale devient aussi un fertilisant pour l’expression des phénomènes sociaux comme le souci, le mépris, l’indifférence et les violences de toute sorte. Face aux difficultés qu’elles créent, les victimes développent bien des stratégies d’adaptation dans la ville de Cotonou. Cette recherche vise à analyser les stratégies d’adaptation des acteurs aux « soucis, mépris et indifférences » liés aux nouveaux médias dans la ville de Cotonou. Pour atteindre cet objectif, il est adopté une démarche méthodologique qualitative basée sur l’approche ethnométhodologique. 75 personnes ressources ont été contactées par les techniques du choix raisonné et de la boule de neige. De nouvelles formes de soucis, de mépris et d’indifférences sont produites par le biais des médias sociaux dans la ville de Cotonou. Leurs mutations sont liées à l’individualisation des trajectoires socio-numériques et l’hyper-accessibilité peu régulée des nouveaux médias. Néanmoins, plusieurs stratégies d’adaptation sont développées par les acteurs en fonction de leurs représentations. Avec la persistance des déviances, le défi d’une éducation numérique responsable mérite d’être davantage relevé.
Author Keywords: Médias sociaux, soucis, mépris, indifférences, stratégies d’adaptations, Cotonou.
How to Cite this Article
Rodrigue Sèdjrofidé Montcho, “Stratégies d’adaptation aux « soucis, mépris et indifférences » socio-numériques dans la ville de Cotonou,” International Journal of Innovation and Scientific Research, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 116–128, May 2020.
