Affordances et matérialité dans les publications fantômes sur Facebook

Abstract

Affordances of technolanguage forms (Paveau 2012) question the relation to the materiality of statements as they appear in digital environments. This is the case of what we call "ghost publications" on Facebook. Translucent statements that only exist for the user as long as they have not clicked on the "publish" button. This article will propose a definition of the ghost publications based on a diachronic typology from a micro-corpus constituted since their appearance on the site in 2015. This typology will allow us to consider the increase of the affordances and their strategic use by Facebook.

Keywords

• digital speech analysis
• Facebook
• technoligical language
• social network
• affordances.