Overview

Matchmaking in Chechen and Ingush communities in Europe; the delayed reconnection of the Russian-speaking Jewish diaspora in France; transnational marital and parenting practices among retired people from West Africa; access to supplementary pension rights in France; the virtual construction of self-identity by young Iraqi Yazidis to gain access to migration programmes in the United States; and the work of undocumented meal delivery drivers in Paris – all offer, in this issue of Réseaux, original insights into digital practices before, during and after migration and settlement. Through research employing a variety of methods and interdisciplinary approaches that take into account the intrinsic nature of social relationships, this issue explores how digital tools weave and reconfigure emotional ties – whether familial, communal or national, and whether real or imagined – in the context of mobility. Three cross-cutting themes – age and generational relationships, access or lack of access to rights, and social, family and digital norms – contribute to the existing literature linking migration and digital technology. The contribution of this issue lies in its analysis of digital tools, which prove to be a relevant empirical approach and a useful heuristic tool, in that they enable us to measure the consequences of public policies – such as policies on belonging – which define the boundaries of inclusion and thus of belonging, within a rapidly changing technological and political environment.

Contents

Digital Technology and Migration

• By Laura Odasso and Sarra Chaïeb

Practices and norms of online matchmaking in Chechen and Ingush communities in Europe

• By Agathe Guy and Kristina Kovalskaya

Delayed digital reconnection. The last Soviet generation, Facebook and the belated re-establishment of transnational ties amongst Russian-speaking Jews in France

• By Daria Malyuta

The Flows of Love: Digital Marital and Parental Relationships Among West African Retirees in France

• By Hyppolyte Kouao

E-migrants: the pressure on older immigrants to stay connected

• By Armèle Cloteau and Hannah Bramekamp

The project of exile disrupted by the virtual world. An investigation into the Facebook self-presentation strategies of men caught up in the conflicts in Iraq

• By Juliette Duclos-Valois

Research note

‘Anyway, I’m stuck here.’ Delivery work as a means of retaining workers in terms of time, space and administrative status

• By Cyprien Meslet

Reading notes

Sébastien BROCA, Caught in the Web: From the Utopia of the Internet to Digital Capitalism, Paris, Seuil, 2025, ‘Liber’ series, 284 pp.

• By Ludovic Bonduel

Seok-Kyeong HONG, On the Road with BTS, Paris, Decrescenzo Éditeurs, 2024, 286 pp.

• By Woojin Na

Françoise DAUCÉ, Benjamin LOVELUCK and Francesca MUSIANI, The Rise of Digital Authoritarianism: Repression and Resistance on the Internet in Russia, 2012–2022, Paris, Presses des Mines, 214 pp.

• By Louis Pétiniaud

Catherine BOUKO, Images and Civic Expression: Communicating Emotions and Opinions on Social Media, De Boek Supérieur, 2024, 288 pp.

• By Laurence Leveneur-Martel

Robert GORWA, *The Politics of Platform Regulation: How Governments Shape Online Content Moderation*, New York, Oxford University Press, 2024, ‘Oxford Studies in Digital Politics’ series, 237 pp.

• By Marguerite Borelli

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Contents

Contemporary interpretations of politics

The framing of politics as a power struggle: from the interdependence of politics and journalism to the influence of platforms

• By Fabienne Greffet and Franck Rebillard

Politics over breakfast. The imposition of a morning talk show format on French broadcast media

• By Martin Baloge, Abdelkrim Beloued, Nicolas Hubé, Steffen Lalande, Pierre Mayance and Agnès Saulnier

Greenpeace put to the test by the media regime of the major digital platforms

• By Jean-Baptiste Paulhet

The making of political news on YouTube. How the platform, audiences and commercial partners shape the editorial choices of content creators

• By Quentin Gilliotte

TikTok: a new space for political debate shaped by the news media?

• By Édouard Bouté

News under X. The role of ‘hybrid media’ (CerfiaFR, AlertesInfos, Mediavenir) in the media coverage of the Nahel case

• By Benjamin Tainturier

For and against AI. The appropriation and subversion of generative tools by the identitarian movement

• By Laurène Renaut, Clotilde Chevet and Lucie Raymond

Miscellaneous

The everyday experience of being overweight in the digital age. Between shifting perceptions and contrasting attitudes towards acceptance

• By Yann Bruna, Alice Monterrat and Pascal Vallet

More female roles in TV series? The methodological challenge of counting fictional characters. Meta-analysis 1951–2023

• By Mathieu Arbogast

Reading notes

Benjamin SHESTAKOFSKY, *Behind the Startup: How Venture Capital Shapes Work, Innovation, and Inequality*, Oakland: University of California Press, 2024, 328 pp.

• By Marion Flécher

Alain D’IRIBARNE and Emmanuel EVENO, *Parthenay: A ‘Digital City’*, Lausanne, Peter Lang, ‘Public Action’ series, 2024, 408 pp.

• By Louis Jolivalt

Floriane ZASLAVSKY, Breaking Down the Barriers to the Public Sphere: How the Dalit Movement is Taking Over Digital Spaces, Paris, Les Presses des Mines, 2023, 225 pp.

• By César Castellvi

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Networks No. 252 – "Videos for learning – Tribute to Dominique Pasquier" – Issue coordinated by Dominique Pasquier

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Over the past fifteen years or so, video tutorials have experienced spectacular growth, both in terms of content creators, who are producing more and more of them, and users, who are consuming them intensively. These videos, most often produced by "amateurs" and now available on several platforms (YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, etc.), provide access to a wide variety of knowledge and skills, ranging from cooking to science and personal care. This issue, "Videos for Learning," seeks to 1) understand the diversity of these forms of learning through a survey that shows the widespread use of videos for learning (80% of the population consumes them), with significant differences according to gender and age and a wide range of learning areas; 2) to show how these online videos fit into a learning environment that mobilizes other resources such as courses, peer exchanges, and paper guides, and which increasingly favors images over the written word; 3) Finally, to show how these videos shape a particular type of interaction between designers and their audiences, with a specific framing of the encounter thus organized and formats ranging from traditional knowledge transfer to learning by imitation in the manner of frayage (learning by imitation). These questions are explored in articles that focus on different learning contexts: music in adulthood, board game rules, leisure activities among young people, DIY, and professional training for doctors.

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SUMMARY OF THE DOSSIER "VIDEOS FOR LEARNING"

• Learning, entertaining, and solving problems with videos on knowledge and skills By Valérie Beaudouin, Olivier Beraud Martin, Éric Dagiral, Quentin Gilliotte, and Christophe Prieur
• And let everyone start playing? By Emmanuelle Guittet
• Connected exploration of leisure activities in childhood and adolescence – Noémie Roques
• Video in the service of leisure – Vincent Berry and Vinciane Zabban
• Video tutorials as an encounter with a "commentating machine" – Christian Licoppe and Oskar Lindwall
• Online self-training – Patrice Flichy

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TRIBUTE TO DOMINIQUE PASQUIER

• Rereading Dominique – Patrice Flichy
• Which side are we looking at? – Claire Balleys
• "We give him 5/5" – Irène Bastard, Florence Eloy, Sébastien François, Marine Jouan, Quentin Gilliotte, Emmanuelle Guittet, Tomas Legon, Muriel Mille, and Laurianne Trably
• A look back at the funny stars survey. Television presenters – Sabine Chalvon-Demersay
• A sociology of popular media culture that is neither miserabilist nor populist – Éric Macé
• Dominique, Hélène, and the boys – Dominique Cardon
• A European sociologist – Josiane Jouët
• In the "culture and media" family, the smiling, passionate, and quirky big sister… – Thomas Paris and Pierre-Jean Benghozi
• Traveling the world in good company – Jean Cattan for the National Digital Council
• Dominique Pasquier, or how I stopped despising popular culture – Hélène Bourdeloie
• Dominique Pasquier: social science at the heart of life – Anne Cordier

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is calling for articles for its special issues:

Platform parties, party platforms. Artisans, promoters, activists, and mechanisms of online politics.

Dossier coordinated by Fabienne Greffet (IRENEE, University of Lorraine)

Réseaux Call for intentions

The media and digital fabrication of sexualities

Dossier coordinated by Béatrice Damian-Gaillard (University of Rennes 1, Arènes) and Florian Vörös (University of Lille, Geriico)

Réseaux Call for intentions

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