Understanding Publics: Theories, Practices, Transformations

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.

• Introduction— Public(s): apparently self-evident but actually not Béatrice Fleury and Jacques WalterBéatrice 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 .