Florence WEBER

Teacher-researcher
University professor
Professeur des Universités, chercheur au Centre Maurice Halbwachs
Social Sciences
Ethnographie, sociologie, anthropologie de la parenté, histoire des sciences, économie informelle et politiques sociales, santé mentale, environnement
ENS-PSL
Department of Social Sciences
, updated on
10 January 2022
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Florence Weber
3ème étage, bureau R3-32
48, boulevard Jourdan 75014 Paris
01 44 321516

Having practiced and theorized ethnographic fieldwork, and studied its history, I am working on the plurality, in a same historical period, of social settings fitted with different norms of conduct, described either as rules of politeness or as interaction rituals, and on the role of literacy and numeracy as both cognitive tools and ritual division of social settings.

Field of research

I am firstinterested in digital humanitiesfirst as an observer of interaction rituals and digital ways of thinking. As a teacher of collective fieldwork I discoveredhow digital toolsallowedsaving and sharingfieldworkpieces, and thuspromotingrevisits” (whathaschanged, either observer’s eyes or studiedsociety?), facilitatingmultidisciplinaryresearch and respectingethnographicdeontology. I have thusfollowed more thanprecededthe use of digital tools by ethnographers and I am discoveringthe importance of theirgeolocation and visualizationpower.