
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.
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 thuspromoting “revisits” (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.