Hycar

The project aims to study the communication and visibility practices of humanities and social sciences researchers in the new digital scientific ecosystem.

The Hypotheses.org researchers’ notebooks allow a first entry on the non-academic writings which proliferating on the web. First of all, we will try to understand how researchers appropriate these tools and how they use them. The objective is to make a first typology of notebooks and of those who keep them. Can we identify different publication strategies? According to which criteria? Do the frequency, the size of the posts, the tone or the vocabulary used make it possible to identify and differentiate typical behaviors? What relationship to research practice, to publication and to the scientific legitimacy of different types of researcher’s writings do the research notebooks express? What place is there for communication, conversation, valorization, popularization and reflexivity in the practices of sharing and publishing online?

Secondly, it seems interesting to see how these notebooks relate to other forms of digital presence (open archives, social networks, newspaper blogs). Can we distinguish between the logics of sharing and the logics of communication? What (new) articulations between knowledge construction and knowledge sharing (under construction)? What commitments and what models of communication are mobilized by researchers?