Trois sociologues dans un fauteuil

Abstract

Social scientists did not wait for the outbreak of the pandemic, at the beginning of 2020, to conduct research in virtual environments. By making many physical sites inaccessible. The coronavirus crisis has led many researchers to integrate digital tools into their fieldwork protocols, willy-nilly. Based on three ongoing doctoral projects, conducted in professional and domestic environments and mobilizing various qualitative methods, this article shows how digital shift recomposes and reframes, in the Goffmanian sense of the term, both the fields and relationships of inquiry as well as the content and nature of the collected materials.

Keywords

• fieldwork methods
• interviews
• netnography
• interaction frames
• digital methods
• remote research