Social networks as popular learning and emancipating spaces : the Gilets Jaunes, a case of social movement in France

In this work, we try to discern how social networks could become a learning structure, between peers and self-taught individuals, to access the public sphere, and act politically, in the case of a social movement which was popular and particularly heterogenous. We, especially, rely on Nancy Fraser's theory of alternative discursive spaces and of counterpublics to analyse our subject, and examine the social movement of the Gilets Jaunes which took place in France, between 2018 and 2019, as it seems relevant and heuristic on this matter.