The Web and the European Constitutional Treaty

Ecology of a Competitive Thematic Locality
By Guilhem Fouetillou
English

THE WEB AND THE EUROPEAN CONSTITUTIONAL TREATY Ecology of a competitive thematic locality

Today's tools and methodologies enable researchers to work on material that was formerly believed to be inaccessible to sociological and political research. This is the case here of a photograph of the content of many sites in France concerning the European Constitutional Treaty which French voters refused in the 31 May 2005 referendum. The author uses a tool, the crawl, to analyse the corpus of data and the actors, and describes the necessities of its configuration. He then examines the way in which the communities of 'Yeses'? and 'No's'? were constituted and fuelled, and the interactions between the two.

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