Understanding Publics: Theories, Practices, Transformations

Jacques Walter

ISBN 10: 2807618480 / ISBN 13: 9782807618480

Published by Peter Lang, Peter Lang, 2022

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - In the analysis of communicational practices - whether in the form ofaudience, audience, consumers, users, recipients, participants, spectators -there is an imprecision of terms and occurrences that leaves room forterminological and theoretical indecision. Hence the desire to clarify thecontours of the notion of public, while relying on empirical material, and toexamine its multiple transformations.Thanks to a collective interdisciplinary program, researchers in informationand communication sciences and in language sciences from the Center forResearch on Mediations of the University of Lorraine have studied theconditions of production and diffusion of information and knowledge, theattitudes and behaviors of the public, the mechanisms of intercomprehensionor 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 certainresults.This book gathers a selection of signifi cant studies around four sections:the concept of public space; the relationship to the digital; innovations inthe fi eld of health; the relationship to writing in the cultural sector.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Understanding Publics: Theories, Practices, Transformations
• Publisher: Peter Lang, Peter Lang
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 2807618480
• ISBN 13: 9782807618480
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 235W x 157H x 22D millimeters 235 millimeters width by 157 millimeters height by 22 millimeters depth
• Weight: 629 grams

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.