De la communication interpersonnelle aux communautés épistémiques le développement des TIC et l'enracinement du paradigme de la distribution

The development of individualism and the current orientations in the design of information and communication technologies combine to promote a reflexive anchoring of a model of action based on its distribution. The subject delegates parts of the more and more numerous decisions he has to make to his/her artefactual environment. In the field of interpersonal communication, this leads to the development of a mode of relational management based on « connected presence ». In the field of epistemic communities such as Open Source, the immediate reactivity of individuals is more used than their careful deliberation. Then, one wonders about the moral status and the possibility of analyzing independently a collective and a public space of hyper-connected individuals, organized, equipped and adapted more for an immediate reaction to situations than for thinking them thoroughly over.