Understanding Publics: Theories, Practices, Transformations
Description
In the analysis of communicational practices - whether in the form of
audience, audience, consumers, users, recipients, participants, spectators -
there is an imprecision of terms and occurrences that leaves room for
terminological and theoretical indecision. Hence the desire to clarify the
contours of the notion of public, while relying on empirical material, and to
examine its multiple transformations.
Thanks to a collective interdisciplinary program, researchers in information
and communication sciences and in language sciences from the Center for
Research on Mediations of the University of Lorraine have studied the
conditions of production and diffusion of information and knowledge, the
attitudes and behaviors of the public, the mechanisms of intercomprehension
or of communicational blockages and the weight of technological factors in mediations. These issues are addressed using methods that combine sociological surveys, targeted ethnographic studies,
experiments, and corpus analyses. They are applied to a variety of fi elds,
extending work that has already been done, but also shaking up certain
results.
This book gathers a selection of signifi cant studies around four sections:
the concept of public space; the relationship to the digital; innovations in
the fi eld of health; the relationship to writing in the cultural sector.
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Béatrice Fleury est professeure des universités et membre du Centre de recherche sur les médiations de l'université de Lorraine.
Jacques Walter est professeur des universités émérite et membre du Centre de recherche sur les médiations de l'université de Lorraine.
Ils codirigent la revue Questions de communication.
Content
Introduction- Public(s): apparently self-evident but actually not Béatrice Fleury and Jacques Walter
Béatrice Fleury and Jacques Walter - Loïc Ballarini : What is the place of the public in the public sphere? - Céline Ségur : How has the study of television audiences in the field of information and communication sciences evolved conceptually? - Arnaud Mercier and Nathalie Pignard-Cheynel : Facebook: an information platform for young people and an audience vector for the media - Pierre Morelli : Beyond use: the public as a concept to study ICTs - Angeliki Monnier : Neither autonomous users, nor public? On the subject of an online socio-technical space - Stéphane Goria : The matter of public in the serious use of gaming in an educational context - Emmanuelle Simon and Brigitte Simonnot : Consideration of the on-line circulation of health information in Africa: the reciprocal contributions made by applying anthropological and communicational approaches - Luc Massou : Communication strategy of websites of African clinics and donor centres: who are their target publics?- Driss Ablali and Brigitte Wiederspiel : Digital mediation available to a suffering public - Carole Bisenius-Penin and Laurent Le Bon : Cultural mechanisms (dispositifs) and university writing workshop at the Metz Pompidou Centre. Mediation for and by the publics - Adeline Clerc-Florimond : Considering writer's residencies from the viewpoint of their publics .
