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This contribution focuses on Cultural Pervasive Games defined as technology-enhanced Pervasive Games designed to meet cultural objectives. Through the analysis of the scientific literature, we have identified some key characteristics of these games: expansive boundaries, ambiguity, pareidolia and coincidences. Relying on these concepts, and through the analysis of a selection of cultural pervasive games, we have developed a descriptive and taxonomic typology. We consider the impact of our approach as an intermediary step to develop an explicative typology that could be used as a tool to support the design of Cultural Pervasive Games.

In this paper, we report on our analysis about methodologies for Knowledge Organization System design, especially for faceted classification development. In keeping with the user-oriented paradigm, we study users' activities awareness in these methodological processes. In doing so, we present the existing methodologies and correlated theoretical considerations of users' activities which we connect with two activity theories (Distributed Cognition and Historico-Cultural Activity Theory).

The article presents the findings of a study on the use of a social web platform in a specific professional community. The main purpose was to analyze the characteristics of the hashtags chosen by expert Internet users on the digital social network Twitter. This study is based on a corpus of tweets from users belonging to the community of school librarian teachers. By comparing the use of hashtags in both professional and personal Twitter accounts, it was possible to look into the semantic and pragmatic functions of these tools used for indexing. Particular attention was paid to professional habits for thematic classification and their variations in online messages.

Analysing “sensitive communication” through immanentism is a well-spread method but defining the conditions of access to “sensitive communication” and the potentials of digital media are two intricate objectives. However, these two objectives are essential in order to study the web communication strategies specific to “sensitive objects”. In this article, we analyse the enunciative strategies developed by the imaginary world of wine through a semiotic, marketing and communication approach. We also explain in what way the internet, as a medium and thanks to the action potentials it offers, contributes to the construction of a communication space that promotes the notion of “sensitive communication”. The analysis of the web design of wine brands (Cotnari and Mulfatlar) will allow us to study these strategies through three different angles : interdiegetic (focused on the sphere of reference of wine), infradiegetic (the narration specific to the “sensitive object”) and intradiegetic (focused on virtual and immersive devices).

Build Building upon research in the intersection between sociology of death, sociology of the individual and Information and Communication Sciences, this article studies the way socio-digital platforms, with their different specifications, contribute to re-introducing death into the social‪ sphere and to creating new mourning rituals. Outlining a typology of how memorial websites are used, it shows that post ‪mortem digital data uses depend on the platforms' possibilities, constraints and technical formats. S‪ocio-digital memorial platforms, which spawn a specific form of expression, are therefore reconfiguring the communication with the dead – and particularly digital post mortem identity –, and relation to mourning.‪

The Noob web series is a hybrid object which stands at the intersection of multiple issues directly concerning communication sciences, such as digital, participatory nature, uses of the Internet and of the digital social networks, amateurism through cultural industries, etc. This paper intends to examine this object considering those specificities, on the one hand by adopting a pragmatic posture, on the other hand by offering an original theoretical combination, itself standing at the intersection of tools specific to communication sciences, such as C.S Peirce's sign theory and Roger Odin's semio-pragmatic model. The case study considered enables to expose semiotic content of a semio-pragmatically modeled production of meaning, here the private reading trend applied to comment activity within a fan community.

‪Academic plagiarism raises questions about the codes of conduct of researchers and more generally ethical issues in higher education and research. On such a sensitive subject, forms of action against its manifestations are moving very slowly. Plagiarism do not just question the moral principles of individuals who engage in such practices but also the changes in academic organization, the responsibilities in scientific publishing and in making science, and the role of the author in a “documentary order” jostled by online publishing.‪

This article deals with tensions between Information and Communication Sciences and criticism: what sort of relations communication (as an epistemological region) maintains with criticism? Then, relatively to the early researches of Armand Mattelart, the paper considers the materialistic perspective as constituting the principium of a “critical communication research agenda”: what sort of analysis opens the critical materialism? Finally, the analysis goes back to the question of praxis and the practical profits required by that materialistic approach. Thus, it considers what is induced when the research seeks to take up the critical challenge required by the social practice.

‪Translation constitutes a critical link for the communicational construction of civic engagement within transnational social movements. In an attempt to account for this role, I will focus on Babels, the international network of volunteer translators and interpreters, which considers translation and interpreting (as well as linguistic and cultural diversity) to be inherent to the process of world-wide social transformation processes sparked by the alter-globalisation movement. The analysis will be structured around the dialectic between freedom and constraints which, within this transnational social movement, takes the shape of four sub-dialectics: representation/participation, revolution/deliberation, event/process, verticality/horizontality. ‪

Democratic transitions are characterised by a state of crisis. During such periods media are expected to fulfil major functions. These functions and media contribution to the transition process have been analysed by academic studies little-known in France. This paper constitutes a critical review of these studies, it underlines their recurrent ethnocentric and teleological bias. Considering specifics characteristics of the evolution from an autocratic regime towards a state of law, it aims to provide basis to design a specific analytic framework and a methodology for media studies applied to transitional contexts.

This article focuses on the self-exposure practices on social network sites. For a decade, much research discussed, directly or indirectly, the phenomenon of digital visibility. That's what it's essential, for the less relevant, to initiate this heuristic approach and to review the results that have been made on the subject. The expansion of information and communication technologies changed traditional forms of social interaction, inducing ‪a reassessment of ‪digital self-exposure and a development of regulatory practices of ‪this informational dispersion. Therefore, we propose to reconsider the various works that have improved the understanding of this research subject.‪

The public outreach programmes offered by cultural institutions are increasingly based on a targeted understanding of their end users. Museums are shifting their focus towards the more inclusive idea of a multiplicity of audiences, which all need to be included. Simultaneously, museums recognize the rise of individualised visitor practices. In this context of segmentation and individualisation, this article aims to explore the way in which the seemingly overlooked notion of a general public continues to inform both the work of museum professionals and the experience of museum visitors. This discussion is based on a case study of the ‘introductory guided tour' at the Louvre Museum. The data reflects both the unique traits and the consistent patterns in the interrelated practices of the museum staff and the visitors involved in this guided tour. By looking at three distinct but intertwined frames (the institution, the museum professionals, and the visitors), the article argues that the experience of the “introductory guided tour”, its actualisations of the notion of a general public, and its appropriations by the visitors, remain relatively stable despite the rapidly evolving museum context.