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Le soutien social à travers les récits d’anxiété en ligne

Aline Faria
During the COVID-19 pandemic, people sought social support in online spaces dedicated to health. This article aims to understand how members of a Brazilian Facebook group asked for and offered social support through online narratives constructed in their interactions during the pandemic. Based on an ethnographic approach and the Small Stories Research, we have shown that social support operates through Narrative Stancetaking and Second Stories. In the latter, prescriptions are constructed as moral positions that should be adopted to manage anxiety following a COVID-19 diagnosis. This research provides reflections on the functioning of social support online.

La construction de l’antiféminisme comme discours d’évidence sur YouTube

Delphine Dupré, Clément Bert-Erboul, Dimitra Laurence Larochelle and Aurélia Gournay
This study analyzes antifeminist discourses disseminated by female influencers on YouTube. Based on a corpus of 10 channels representative of various positions within the antifeminist spectrum, the article examines how users navigate between content with varying levels of ideological radicalism. Using a mixed-methods approach—combining network analysis (1 889 videos, 320 000 comments) with thematic analysis of 38 selected videos—the research identifies shared semio-discursive mechanisms that may facilitate ideological slippage. The appeal of “common sense” plays a key role in this process: it enables the normalization of antifeminist ideas, conceals their political stakes, and renders them socially acceptable. These discourses of common sense thus contribute to legitimizing antifeminist positions by presenting them in a seemingly benign and depoliticized form.

Une plateforme pour les éduquer tou·te·s : pour une analyse critique des formations journalistiques de la Google News Initiative

Samuel Lamoureux and Laurence Thibault
This study conducts a thematic content analysis of 63 online training courses offered to journalists by the Google News Initiative (GNI). Drawing on literature in the sociology of journalism and platform studies, it seeks to understand the vision of journalism articulated in these courses and, above all, how they reinterpret journalistic practices. The analysis reveals a predominance of two main forms of education provided by the GNI: education in algorithmic technologies and in marketing. These categories impose a realignment of the boundaries of journalism by focusing on four specific themes: education in Google tools, in machine learning, in advertising, and in audience metrics. Thus, the study demonstrates that Google is promoting a new conception of journalism, in which the boundaries between editorial, commercial and algorithmic are dissolved within an integrated “tech stack”, reconfiguring the boundaries of journalistic autonomy.