L'éducation aux médias "made in Québec" : un nouveau catéchisme ? Réflexions sur les concepts de légitimation et de délégitimation by France Aubin BIO Copyright ©1997 by France Aubin. All rights reserved. Resumen | Résumé The Simpsons ou la délinquance domestiquée by Mario Beaulac BIO Hugely successful in the risky genre of prime time animated series, The Simpsons nevertheless features a caustic vision of North American suburbia. Even if Bart Simpson acts as figurehead to the series, as his carefully groomed pre-pubescent anarchist persona shows, a content analysis reveals his subversive extremes to be carefully evened by the father's indecisiveness, the mother's determination and sister Lisa's moralism. The better part of the show's satiric thrust thus falls back on Itchy & Scratchy's nihilistic antics and on a vivid critique of media. Copyright ©1997 by Mario Beaulac. All rights reserved. Resumen | Résumé Le Japon et "la société de l'information" by Éric George BIO Japan is the only G7 country whose culture is non-occidental. Consequently, the study of the economic and social aspects in the development of information and communication technologies in Japan is of great interest. It lays bare a view of a better-planned deregulation strategy by public authorities, concerning telecommunications, than the one proposed in occidental policies. Japan seems to be following a trend common amongst its rich partners, while simultaneously perpetuating a policy which takes its roots in an ancient history. While the Japanese adhere to the deregulation principle for pragmatic reasons, its partners, especially the US, are ideologically bound to it. The other topic of this paper is the development of the Internet in the midst of a transmuting social soil. Considering the current, fragilized japanese solidarity, the effects of the Internet--combined with the aforementioned transmutation--could lead Japan to a less rigid, more decentralized society, in accordance with the precepts of the network paradigm. We speculate that the effects of information and communication technologies might be slighter on japanese society, since it has traditionally been endowed with extrememly efficient information networks. Copyright ©1997 by Éric George. All rights reserved. Resumen | Résumé Quand Big Brother fait du pouce sur l'inforoute by Martine Gingras BIO This paper explores the issue of privacy in the age of information networks -- from the risks of intrusion to protective avenues. Showing how informatization facilitates data gathering on citizens or transactions, and how that information may be stored, twined and exchanged, we emphasize the need to reevaluate the principles and methods of privacy protection. Guidelines, voluntary codes, international standards and national laws aren't enough to efficiently protect privacy on a worldwide network; it is necessary and imperative to complement those methods by taking advantage of technology itself -- by using encryption technologies, among others. Copyright ©1997 by Martine Gingras. All rights reserved. Resumen | Résumé De la difficulté d'étudier la communication by Guillaume Latzko-Toth BIO Copyright ©1997 by Guillaume Latzko-Toth. Tous droits réservés. Resumen | Résumé David Morley et la problématique de la réception by Florence Millerand BIO This article presents a brief overview of David Morley's contributions to media reception studies. Morley is a British researcher whose work is part of the current stream of Cultural Studies. His works emerge in the context of an increased introduction of new technologies within the household; as such, his research is part of the "family and technologies" subset within media reception studies. Four main aspects of his work are considered here: the introduction of the notion of "domestic context" in reception studies; the conceptualization of television as a domestic technology; the choice of the household as the unit of analysis and the notion of the "familial dynamic"; finally, the methodological orientation towards an ethnographical perspective. Copyright ©1997 by Florence Millerand. All rights reserved. Resumen | Résumé The Simpsons ou la délinquance domestiquée by Maryse Rivard BIO Within the context of the annual Internet Society (ISOC) gathering, Montreal hosted most of the international leading scientists in the field of computer-mediated communication. In many ways, the INET 96 conference presented similarities with those religious events which ponctuated our history. The use of the avalable space, the decorum surrounding the event as well as the way lectures were made reminded the particular atmosphere of a sacred mass. Skeptical regarding the resolutions taken during this meeting, our columnist describes the event in a quite unusual way. After a general overview of the different themes tackled during the conference, she focuses on two critical workshops : one was about the moral values of Internet, the other concerned the soaring of the Internet in schools. Then, she describes the situation resulting from the arrival of the Internet into K12 networks and concludes with a comparison between the shift toward computerization and the world evangelism. Warning: Before you undertake this chronicles reading, you should make sure that you are equiped with a good dictionary and get your mouse ready to eat a lot of bookmarks. Because you are about to encounter a large variety of special religious terms as well as precious URL adress for those interested in the effect of new technologies of information on education. Copyright ©1997 by Maryse Rivard. All rights reserved. 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