Summary: This article develops a model of action that outlines a 'pragmatic' approach to conventions, while establishing links with universalist or cultural approaches. It clarifies the scope of the sociological pragmatics concerned with analysing the different procedures by which people establish a link between their personal experience, traces of the past revealed in the environment, and their horizons of expectation. It advances the hypothesis that several systems of thought and behaviour combine during the course of action, and then explores the architecture of these systems by examining their articulation in time and their distribution in space.
{"title":"The conventional foundations of action. Elements of a sociological pragmatics","authors":"Nicolas Dodier, David Motlow","doi":"10.3406/RESO.1995.3294","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3406/RESO.1995.3294","url":null,"abstract":"Summary: This article develops a model of action that outlines a 'pragmatic' approach to conventions, while establishing links with universalist or cultural approaches. It clarifies the scope of the sociological pragmatics concerned with analysing the different procedures by which people establish a link between their personal experience, traces of the past revealed in the environment, and their horizons of expectation. It advances the hypothesis that several systems of thought and behaviour combine during the course of action, and then explores the architecture of these systems by examining their articulation in time and their distribution in space.","PeriodicalId":213999,"journal":{"name":"Réseaux. The French journal of communication","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132580832","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Summary: This article calls for a change in the communicational paradigm in social analysis, and in the analysis of social communication itself. It seeks to make clear the difference that such a paradigm introduces into the approach to social events. Taking the view that the predominant conception of communication, that is, representationalist and cognitivist, is in thrall to the myth of the given and of the self-determined, the author urges that it be replaced by an intersubjectivist and pragmaticist model. The article thus opens a debate with those who espouse a cognitive theory of communication.
{"title":"From an Epistemological Model of Communication to a Praxeological Approach","authors":"L. Quéré, David Motlow","doi":"10.3406/RESO.1995.3292","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3406/RESO.1995.3292","url":null,"abstract":"Summary: This article calls for a change in the communicational paradigm in social analysis, and in the analysis of social communication itself. It seeks to make clear the difference that such a paradigm introduces into the approach to social events. Taking the view that the predominant conception of communication, that is, representationalist and cognitivist, is in thrall to the myth of the given and of the self-determined, the author urges that it be replaced by an intersubjectivist and pragmaticist model. The article thus opens a debate with those who espouse a cognitive theory of communication.","PeriodicalId":213999,"journal":{"name":"Réseaux. The French journal of communication","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130773786","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Summary: French national television channels in the 1980s felt they had to put out political programmes in mid-evening for reasons of prestige and because politicians wanted their opinions aired in time to catch the first editions of the daily papers. Unfortunately, most viewers were not interested in the cliched studio format, which led programme makers to inject a note of showbusiness into their offerings. The authors show how one pioneering programme. Questions a domicile, tried to cater to a target audience by interviewing politicians in their homes, and explain why it failed.
{"title":"Transmitting Reception. How political television programmes anticipate audience reaction","authors":"Brigitte Le Grignou, Érik Neveu, David Motlow","doi":"10.3406/RESO.1996.3309","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3406/RESO.1996.3309","url":null,"abstract":"Summary: French national television channels in the 1980s felt they had to put out political programmes in mid-evening for reasons of prestige and because politicians wanted their opinions aired in time to catch the first editions of the daily papers. Unfortunately, most viewers were not interested in the cliched studio format, which led programme makers to inject a note of showbusiness into their offerings. The authors show how one pioneering programme. Questions a domicile, tried to cater to a target audience by interviewing politicians in their homes, and explain why it failed.","PeriodicalId":213999,"journal":{"name":"Réseaux. The French journal of communication","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126816610","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Summary: State intervention in the Belgian telecommunication sector was the product of political, economic, social and geopolitical factors. During the three successive technological waves in this sector in the nineteenth century (the development of optical telegraphs* electric telegraphs and the telephone), the State's role evolved from mere 'policing', to economic participation and finally to a monopoly and the provision of a 'public service'. At the time this necessitated the use of 'cross subsidies' to ensure geographical development of the network and to reduce tariffs. The 'public service' was at first intended mainly for commerce and industry.
{"title":"The role of the State in the Belgian telecommunications sector in the nineteenth century","authors":"P. Verhoest, J. Vercruysse","doi":"10.3406/RESO.1994.3262","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3406/RESO.1994.3262","url":null,"abstract":"Summary: State intervention in the Belgian telecommunication sector was the product of political, economic, social and geopolitical factors. During the three successive technological waves in this sector in the nineteenth century (the development of optical telegraphs* electric telegraphs and the telephone), the State's role evolved from mere 'policing', to economic participation and finally to a monopoly and the provision of a 'public service'. At the time this necessitated the use of 'cross subsidies' to ensure geographical development of the network and to reduce tariffs. The 'public service' was at first intended mainly for commerce and industry.","PeriodicalId":213999,"journal":{"name":"Réseaux. The French journal of communication","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117032633","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Summary :This article presents the results, for France, of a European survey on children's and teenagers' ways of communicating. The authors analyse the relationship between social inequalities and the use of screens, with a particular focus on disparities, in the media sphere, in terms of age and gender. They explore the new dynamics of sociability induced by the new media, and highlight the versatility of media use and the synergies that are woven between digital screens and printed matter.
{"title":"Youth and Screen Culture: National survey of 6-17 year olds","authors":"Josiane Jouët, Dominique Pasquier, L. Libbrecht","doi":"10.3406/RESO.1999.3348","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3406/RESO.1999.3348","url":null,"abstract":"Summary :This article presents the results, for France, of a European survey on children's and teenagers' ways of communicating. The authors analyse the relationship between social inequalities and the use of screens, with a particular focus on disparities, in the media sphere, in terms of age and gender. They explore the new dynamics of sociability induced by the new media, and highlight the versatility of media use and the synergies that are woven between digital screens and printed matter.","PeriodicalId":213999,"journal":{"name":"Réseaux. The French journal of communication","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126889687","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Summary: Communication has been taken over by the language of science and cybernetics, which have reduced it to the role of information-processing and put it firmly on the path of integral modelling. The developments in systemic pragmatics and the blossoming of the cognitive sciences appear to confirm the discrediting of the hermeneutical and ethical standpoints to which philosophers had been attached. It is, nevertheless, by reference to Kantianism that intersubjectivity is now imposing an approach to meaning through the efforts of Apel, Habermas and Grice. With the limits of conceptual ambitions exposed, conversation and, more generally, literature seem to promise a non-reductional elucidation of communicational exchanges.
{"title":"Communication Without Concepts","authors":"Jean-Michel Besnier, P. Ridel","doi":"10.3406/RESO.1993.3255","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3406/RESO.1993.3255","url":null,"abstract":"Summary: Communication has been taken over by the language of science and cybernetics, which have reduced it to the role of information-processing and put it firmly on the path of integral modelling. The developments in systemic pragmatics and the blossoming of the cognitive sciences appear to confirm the discrediting of the hermeneutical and ethical standpoints to which philosophers had been attached. It is, nevertheless, by reference to Kantianism that intersubjectivity is now imposing an approach to meaning through the efforts of Apel, Habermas and Grice. With the limits of conceptual ambitions exposed, conversation and, more generally, literature seem to promise a non-reductional elucidation of communicational exchanges.","PeriodicalId":213999,"journal":{"name":"Réseaux. The French journal of communication","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131190481","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Perspectives for a Sociology of the Telephone","authors":"P. Flichy","doi":"10.3406/RESO.1997.3326","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3406/RESO.1997.3326","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":213999,"journal":{"name":"Réseaux. The French journal of communication","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129052056","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Summary: When, in 1988, Nature finally published results by Jacques Benveniste seeming to show that water could 'remember' the properties of substances in ultra-high dilutions, it detonated an 'epistemiological bombshell' that highlighted the way scientists now use the mass media to publicize their work. They have become entrepreneurs who, in order to interest others in a discovery that may be unacceptable to the established scientific journals, must mobilize and orchestrate a number of different communication resources to build their own information networks. This analysis of the affair may prompt a more thorough exploration of the many paths that lead to the construction of scientific facts.
{"title":"The affair of the memory of water. Towards a sociology of scientific communication","authors":"Alain Kaufmann, P. Ridel","doi":"10.3406/RESO.1994.3277","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3406/RESO.1994.3277","url":null,"abstract":"Summary: When, in 1988, Nature finally published results by Jacques Benveniste seeming to show that water could 'remember' the properties of substances in ultra-high dilutions, it detonated an 'epistemiological bombshell' that highlighted the way scientists now use the mass media to publicize their work. They have become entrepreneurs who, in order to interest others in a discovery that may be unacceptable to the established scientific journals, must mobilize and orchestrate a number of different communication resources to build their own information networks. This analysis of the affair may prompt a more thorough exploration of the many paths that lead to the construction of scientific facts.","PeriodicalId":213999,"journal":{"name":"Réseaux. The French journal of communication","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128569119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Summary: As part of the discourse engendered by our culture, there is no reason for media discourse to receive special treatment - despite journalists' claims concerning the peculiar nature of their work. An anthropological viewpoint shows us that in the construction of their discourse, journalists are constrained in the same way as makers of myths: it is an attempt to define reality by means of narrative structures which, in order to give meaning to the unexpected, resort to culturally deep-rooted symbols. The analysis of the media event - the former king's visit at Easter - which mobilized the Romanian press in 1992, shows the power of the symbols which the media exploit while maintaining the illusion of simply recounting concrete events.
{"title":"Victim or Victor? Mythologisation by the Local Press of King Mihaï's visit to Romania","authors":"M. Coman, L. Libbrecht","doi":"10.3406/RESO.1997.3323","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3406/RESO.1997.3323","url":null,"abstract":"Summary: As part of the discourse engendered by our culture, there is no reason for media discourse to receive special treatment - despite journalists' claims concerning the peculiar nature of their work. An anthropological viewpoint shows us that in the construction of their discourse, journalists are constrained in the same way as makers of myths: it is an attempt to define reality by means of narrative structures which, in order to give meaning to the unexpected, resort to culturally deep-rooted symbols. The analysis of the media event - the former king's visit at Easter - which mobilized the Romanian press in 1992, shows the power of the symbols which the media exploit while maintaining the illusion of simply recounting concrete events.","PeriodicalId":213999,"journal":{"name":"Réseaux. The French journal of communication","volume":"112 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123046173","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Summary: This article, based on observations from interviews, focuses on viewer/television relationships in the making, rather than on existing ones or on televiewers as such. These relationships represent the different forms of negotiation with television as a cultural offering. Taking as his departure point television's lack of legitimacy, expressed by most viewers in the form of a denial, the author defines four styles of relationship. These are represented as combinations of the poles of two opposite axes - those of social negotiation and of emotional investment. He concludes with a
{"title":"Accounting for viewing styles: viewers' negotiation with TV as a cultural offering.","authors":"D. Boullier, L. Libbrecht","doi":"10.3406/RESO.1993.3251","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3406/RESO.1993.3251","url":null,"abstract":"Summary: This article, based on observations from interviews, focuses on viewer/television relationships in the making, rather than on existing ones or on televiewers as such. These relationships represent the different forms of negotiation with television as a cultural offering. Taking as his departure point television's lack of legitimacy, expressed by most viewers in the form of a denial, the author defines four styles of relationship. These are represented as combinations of the poles of two opposite axes - those of social negotiation and of emotional investment. He concludes with a","PeriodicalId":213999,"journal":{"name":"Réseaux. The French journal of communication","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114141277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}