Création d’espaces relationnels dans le web documentaire

Abstract

Context Web documentaries are relatively new media and documentary entities and, though some articles have been written about them and typologies of the genre have been developed, no one has yet underlined or discussed their capacities for creating relational spaces, namely spaces that facilitate individual and group relationships, and social and individual links. Analysis This article examines, from a relational perspective, a selection of webdocumentaries produced primarily by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), in a desire to identify the address modalities and interactive devices specific to this media object, that foster conversation, sharing, a sense of identification, collaboration and the discovery of others. Conclusions and implications Webdocumentaries, through their spaces of expression, communication and collaboration, support a feeling of listening and of being heard. They act as a public place that encourages the meeting of others and asynchronous socialization.