Projects and Digital Experience: The Construction of a New Relationship with the Territory
Résumé
This chapter questions, from a communicative approach, the relationship with the practiced and symbolic territory seen from the prism of the notion of “project”, a figure of territorialized action particularly invested in and relayed at different academic and professional levels. It explains the project as a device and the reasons to consider it as a communicative artifact. The chapter focuses on how this artifact raises the question of territory, in the digital environment in particular. It identifies to what extent the digital experience consolidates or breaks these relationships, especially among students at the beginning of their college education. Students' relationship with their territory can no longer be thought of outside the uses they make of their digital environment. These uses, which are very widely described and commented on, for both commercial and research purposes, are characterized first and foremost by a generalized connection.