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This study examines how digital parties differ from traditional parties in their external political communication on Facebook during the French 2022 presidential election. Using a supervised machine learning method, we analyzed posts (N = 17,060) published on the Facebook pages (N = 544) of French parties during the campaign. Our findings show that digital parties use Facebook intensively to mobilize their activist base, confirming their reliance on online participation. However, contrary to expectations, they do not structure their communication more around their party leader than traditional parties, nor do they systematically generate higher engagement levels. Instead, they grant greater autonomy to their members' Facebook pages, particularly at the regional level, where activists adapt national campaign strategies to the local context. Finally, while digital parties use Facebook to amplify their candidate's media coverage, they rely less on diverse content formats such as videos and images, challenging previous assumptions about digital campaigning strategies.

L’article interroge la manière dont les dynamiques de transition renouvellent les concepts de ressource et de gouvernance. La réflexion s’appuie sur un travail mené sur le territoire de l’Aubrac. Les cadres théoriques de la multi-level perspective et de la relocalisation alimentaire sont mobilisés. Dans le cadre d’un projet financé par l’ADEME, 50 entretiens ont été réalisés auprès d’acteurs de terrain. Les résultats montrent un élargissement du « panier de biens » à de nouveaux produits et la montée en puissance des acteurs publics. En confirmant la pertinence des concepts inhérents au développement territorial, la réflexion se veut une contribution à la géographie des transitions. Issu de niches nées dans les années 1960, le régime sociotechnique actuel est à son tour confronté à de nouvelles niches, ceci dans un paysage peu favorable aux stratégies de spécification de ressources.

Third-party reproduction has reshaped how we perceive family connections. The use of donor gametes has supported the emergence of new family forms and created new roles for those who help others conceive without becoming parents themselves. Donor conception has also evolved, most notably with the gradual dismantling of donor anonymity. While anonymity has been removed in an increasing number of jurisdictions (such as the United Kingdom and Quebec), DNA testing and social media allow donor-conceived people to find their donors even where anonymity is still in place. Although research is emerging on these situations, especially from the perspective of donor-conceived people, little is still known about the experiences of egg and sperm donors. How do they experience being contacted by someone born from one of their donations? How do donors perceive their connection to them? This paper presents findings from a qualitative study involving 15 men and 12 women who donated sperm or eggs in the United States, Australia, and Canada between the 1970s and 2010s. Most donated anonymously, yet all have been contacted by donor offspring. Drawing on kinship studies, this presentation explores how donors perceive their connections with donor offspring, focusing on the terms of reference they use. These connections are difficult to define, as they are based on a physical connection through procreation, but are not supported by time or care during childhood, and donor-conceived people already have parents.