La soumission et la domination culturelle dans les interfaces: analyse lexicale comparative de 100 sites web personnel français et québécois

ABSTRACT

The analysis of 100 French and Quebecker personal web sites has made it possible to evaluate how men, women, French people and Quebec inhabitants introduce themselves through the Web. Our results underline three important factors in the elaboration of their personal pages: gender and national identities, plus the balance of powers between the different social groups. The lexical analysis shows that these personal pages are characterized by two semantic fields: On the one hand, a theme class referring to a professional vocabulary and which is mainly generated by male and French users. On the other hand, a class expressing more sentimental values and which is much related to both the female and Quebec identities.

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
      H.5.3 Group and Organization Interfaces

Additional Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.1 MODELS AND PRINCIPLES
      H.1.2 User/Machine Systems
          Subjects: Human factors
  H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
      H.3.4 Systems and Software
          Subjects: Performance evaluation (efficiency and effectiveness)
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
      H.5.4 Hypertext/Hypermedia
          Subjects: User issues

General Terms:
Human Factors, Performance

Keywords:
culture, domination, home page, identity, interface