Digital malaise and territorial vulnerability : "to dwell in the daily life" versus "to dwell in the digital life" in the coal-mining area of Franco-Belgian Hainaut ; «Malaise» numérique et vulnérabilité territoriale : «habiter quotidien» versus « habiter numérique » dans le bassin minier du Hainaut franco-belge

This thesis questions "the digital malaise", understood as "inequalities of thoughts and perceptions" concerning the use of digital technology and related lifestyles, at the scale of housing-neighborhood in vulnerable territories such as the mining basin of Franco-Belgian Hainaut. We hypothesize that the discomfort felt when confronted with digital technology depends on territorial, social and contextual vulnerability; we thus propose a reading of this vulnerability according to a three-entry approach: territory/users/digital. We start by questioning the digital reception in a territory that i... Mehr ...