User:Sterenn Poursuilh/Marsouin Scientific Interest Group

Marsouin is a social science research network focused on digital practices and created in 2002 by the Regional Council of Brittany (France). It gathers scholars from the 4 universities of Brittany and 3 breton higher education institutions. Also, the network associates 3 research laboratories from the Loire region. In total, 19 laboratories from Western France involving about 200 scholars specialized in social sciences and working on digital pratices are part of Marsouin. Overviews of digital practices in Brittany, co-edited by the Regional Council of Brittany, are regularly published by the network.

Marsouin is hosted by IMT Atlantique (formerly known as Télécom Bretagne). Research teams from the following institutions are involved :


 * Universities:
 * University of Western Brittany
 * Southern Brittany University
 * University of Rennes
 * Rennes 2 University


 * Higher education institutions:
 * École nationale de la statistique et de l'analyse de l'information
 * Rennes politicial science school
 * IMT Atlantique

Research teams (in French)

 * Aménagement des Usages des Ressources et des Espaces marins et littoraux (UMR AMURE)
 * Arènes (ex-CRAPE - UMR 6051)
 * Arts : pratiques et poétiques (APP - EA 3208)
 * Centre François Viète d'épistémologie et d'histoire des sciences et des techniques (UR 1161)
 * Centre de recherche en économie et management (CREM - UMR 6211)
 * Centre de recherche en économie et statistique (CREST)
 * Centre de Recherche en Education de Nantes (CREN)
 * Centre de recherche sur l’éducation, l'apprentissage et la didactique (CREAD - EA 3875)
 * Centre de recherches en psychologie, cognition et communication (LP3C - EA 1285)
 * Espaces et sociétés (ESO-Rennes - UMR 6590)
 * Groupe de Recherche ANgevin en Économie et Management (GRANEM)
 * Institut de géoarchitecture (EA 2219)
 * Laboratoire d’Économie et de Gestion de l’Ouest (LEGO - EA 2652)
 * Laboratoire d'Informatique en image et systèmes d'information (LIRIS ex-CIAPHS - UMR 5205)
 * Institut de l'ouest : droit et Europe (IODE - UMR 6262)
 * Laboratoire d’Économie et de Management de Nantes-Atlantique (LEMNA)
 * Laboratoire d'études et de recherche en sociologie (LABERS - EA 3149)
 * Logique des usages, sciences sociales et sciences de l'information (LUSSI)
 * Pôle de REcherche Francophonies, Interculturel, Communication, Sociolinguistique (PREFICS)

Research topics
Marsouin explores the digital practices as per the following topics:


 * Digital technology and identities
 * Digital technology, collaborative economy and business models
 * Digital technology, education and learning
 * Digital technology, work organisation and corporations
 * Digital technology, media, cultural practices, law and ethics
 * Digital technology, territoires and public policy
 * Digital technology, health and e-inclusion

Marsouin conducted two surveys (2011 and 2015) on French-speaking Wikipedia. The first survey focused on contibutors while the second one focused on readers. In 2023, a team of researchers from public education institutions (IMT Atlantique, University of Western Brittany, University of Rouen Normandy, Avignon University) has been conducting in 2023 a survey focused on Wikipedia readers and contributors' pratices.