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During the first wave of COVID‑19, the uncertainty about a prospect vaccine combined with the constant media bombardment have fueled the fear of strict periods of confinement measures, creating a fertile ground for fake news and misleading social media debates. This paper studies how the public attention to certain pandemic-related topics and the social media activity of health and policymaker influencers impact the energy sector. Our findings suggest that during periods of growing attention to the term “Coronavirus”, social media activity of policymaker influencers exhibits a negative relationship with the energy sector. However, given the positive and scientific connotation, when the public attention to the term “Vaccine” increases, we observe a positive impact of international health organizations.
Keywords: ICT, Social media, COVID‑19, Public attention, Energy industry, technologies de l'information et de la communication (TIC), Réseaux sociaux, COVID‑19, Attention du public, Industrie de l'énergie, Tecnologías de la información y las comunicaciones (TIC), Redes sociales, COVID‑19, Atención pública, Industria de la energía
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Lexemes such as minstrel and blackface appear to have no direct translation into French, as one usually has to borrow the English words to name them. Our paper deals with the reasons why French speakers have to resort to such a strategy, and compares the linguistic options offered to them to ensure their comprehension within various media. The first part is devoted to a panorama of lexicographic definitions (from monolingual and bilingual dictionaries to electronic corpuses and online translation engines) and of general linguistic uses (in scientific papers and press articles). Then, the reflexion turns towards their historic Afro-American background, to sketch the general context they appeared in and have evolved from, drawing on the concept of language-culture. Further on, a comparative case study is conducted with the diverse translations of a filmic example, leading to a sociolinguistic reflection on the issues involved when translating racialized terms from American English to French, relying on translation studies, linguistics and lexicology.
Keywords: blackface, minstrel, anglais américain, français, traduction, blackface, minstrel, American English, French, translation, blackface, minstrel, inglés americano, francés, traducción
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The deployment of fiber optics is a prerequisite for meeting the challenges of the 21st century digital economy. Though 80% of the French population has been promised access to fiber optics in their home by 2022, we still know little about the local and regional disparities this could entail. In this article, using heterogeneous datasets, we attempt to develop a method for estimating people's need for very high-speed connections, in order to compare them with the presence or absence of fiber optics in their territory. Among our main findings, we show that there are major territorial disparities in access and needs, and that certain communes, particularly those on the outskirts of towns and cities, representing almost 3 million inhabitants, could be particularly vulnerable to the absence of fiber optics, given their needs.
Keywords: FTTH, fibre optique, très haut débit, fracture numérique, télétravail, science régionale, FTTH, fiber optics, broadband, digital divide, telework, regional science
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Communities of practice are presented as a stimulating organizational form because they provide an answer to the formal organizational limits. This article mobilises the concept of CoP in the context of coping with customer misconduct in services, recognized today as a major issue in service management. The literature on coping offers insight on employees' practices for dealing with difficult customers, but it overlooks the critical process of these practices' development. Through an ethnographic study of a social agency, we suggest a CoP perspective to reveal how frontline employees interact in their community to develop coping practices related to customer misconduct.
Keywords: Communities of Practice, Coping practice, Customer Misconduct, Frontline employees, Service, Communautés de pratique, Pratiques d'adaptation, Déviance des Clients, Agents au contact, Service, Comunidades de Práctica, Práctica de afrontamiento, Mala conducta del Cliente, Empleados de primera línea, Servicio
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Research framework: Young adults were the age group most affected by feelings of loneliness during the pandemic. To date, this phenomenon has mainly been approached by standardized mental health indicators: we argue that a sociological perspective can shed different light on these experiences.Objectives: Using a life-course approach, this article aims to understand the different meanings associated with experiences of loneliness during the pandemic, and to identify the social conditions that led to their occurrence. We highlight the main sources of loneliness among young people, the multiple emotions associated with it, and the different strategies for coping with it.Methodology: Our study is based on a comparative analysis of 48 life stories conducted in 2020 and 2021 with individuals aged 18 to 30, from various social backgrounds, in Montreal (16), Gaspé (16) and Toronto (16). Results: All the stories are initially marked by the existence of a “shock of loneliness”, but they are strongly polarized into three main experiences: loneliness as an “abyss”, as a “struggle” or as a “resource”.Conclusions: We cannot reduce the pandemic loneliness of young people to the suffering of isolation: in our study, young adults were affected by different types of loneliness - relational, but also existential and political - that are significant for their generation. We also show how precariousness tends to create a process of “cumulative loneliness”, and highlight the paradoxical role of social media on these different types of loneliness. Contribution: This article offers a better understanding of the social and generational factors behind the sharp rise in youth loneliness during the pandemic. It provides a better understanding of the dynamics of social inequalities in these experiences.
Keywords: pandémie, jeune adulte, jeunesse, parcours de vie, santé mentale, attachement, émotion, lien, soutien social, intégration sociale, pandemic, young adult, youth, life course, mental health, attachment, emotion, social bond, social support, social integration, pandemia, joven, juventud, trayectoria de vida, salud mental, apego, emoción, vinculación, apoyo social, integración social
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This article presents empirical data drawn from a doctoral research which aims to investigate the mechanisms intrinsic to the social-ecological transition, including relationship to Nature. We bring focus to the “yoga” component of an ecosocial sport and nature-based intervention program to analyze how this embodied ecospiritual practice shapes significant experiences in Nature. Inspired by principles of intervention-research, the program was developed collaboratively with various social actors (from youth eco-activists to community partners). Turning to the theoretical frames of resonance and carnal sociology, results show that yoga can create conditions that help foster experiences of resonance. As such, yoga appears to impact dispositionality through an embodied experience of the Self and of Nature, temporality, affectivity, and encounters with the unavailable. These conditions create space-time to connect differently with the world and create alternative individual and collective narratives.
Keywords: rapport à la nature, écospiritualité, yoga, résonance, pratique corporelle, recherche qualitative, relationship to nature, ecospirituality, yoga, resonance, embodied practices, qualitative research
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Until recently, sport was little affected by non-linear television services, due in part to the substantial level of market power maintained by media organizations that hold traditional sport television. However, this is about to change mainly under the impetus of DAZN, an international digital platform solely dedicated to sports. This paper focuses on this platform based on an approach that builds both on political economy of communication, in order to analyze corporate strategies, and on sociosemiotics, so as to analyze the platform itself, which concretizes these strategies. Through reproduction and innovation, DAZN marks a new step in the relationship between sports organizations and medias.
Keywords: Sports et médias, Économie politique de la communication, Sociosémiotique, Plateformes numériques, Portails médiatiques sportifs, Sports and media, Political economy of communication, Sociosemiotics, Digital platforms, Media sport portals
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This is a study of Atemnot (Souffle court) (2016), a collection of poems in two languages by Marina Skalova, a trilingual author born in 1988 in Moscow. Although the author writes mainly in French, her plurilingualism is part of her work, which offers fertile material for those interested in the issues raised by bilingual writing and self-translation. This study takes the relationship between Atemnot (Souffle court) poems in German and French as its starting and approaches the poems in the two languages as “reciprocal thresholds.” This study highlights the way in which Atemnot (Souffle court) probes this issue and resonates with two of the author's more recent works, Exploration du flux and Silences d'exils.
Keywords: autotraduction, écriture bilingue, traduction de la poésie, migration, Marina Skalova, self translation, bilingual writing, poetry translation, migration, Marina Skalova, autotraducción, escritura bilingüe, traducción de poesía, migración, Marina Skalova
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's classic, The Little Prince, is known not only because it has been translated into many languages, but also because, within them, it has been adapted to various geographical varieties, more or less minority and with more or less written literary tradition. Although both Spanish and Catalan have canonical translations of this work, the Andalusian Er Prinzipito was published in 2017 and the Majorcan Es petit príncep did it in 2019. Even though they appeared only two years apart, both versions provoked opposite reactions in the written and digital press, dealing, in some cases, with the same media. The Andalusian case generated a great media swarm, while the Majorcan case was much more discreet. In addition, the discourses that emerged in the media tended to caricature and disqualify the Andalusian case. This article studies two parallel corpora of journalistic texts, both from the paper and digital press: one on the Andalusian case and the other on the Majorcan case. The analysis of media discourses will allow to elucidate the linguistic ideologies and the political implications that underlie them.
Keywords: idéologies linguistiques, analyse critique du discours, catalan, espagnol, language ideologies, critical discourse analysis, Catalan, Spanish, ideologías lingüísticas, análisis crítico del discurso, catalán, español