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With the actual media crisis caused by the digital revolution, local territories have felt the impact of business models shifts on the existence of newsrooms and the vitality of local news. The combined effects of the economic crisis and the advertising crisis on business models have been devastating in some regions. This article presents four areas of reflection on the evolution of regional and local media in Quebec. The economic, political, local development and imbalance issues between urban centers and regional and rural communities in relation to local media arise with the advent of the digital media boom and state intervention through public policies.
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This paper clarifies some of the longstanding difficulties in negotiating Do Not Resuscitate Orders by reframing the source of the dilemmas as not residing with either the patient or the physician but with their relationship. The recommendations are low cost and low-tech ways of making major improvements to the care and quality of life of the most ill patients in hospital. With impending physician-assisted death legislation there is an urgency to find more efficient and beneficial ways for clinicians and patients to address resuscitation issues at the bedside. Paradigmatic shifts in the nature of the patient-physician relationship will need to be encouraged by the larger community. These encouraged shifts address the concepts of passive/inferior patient – active/superior physician, patient ownership of and access to all their health care information, and treating the patient as a major participant in the delivery of health care. These recommended changes will not in themselves make any patient, physician or other healthcare provider more humane and open in the patient's final days. The goal, instead, is to have changes to the context of the discussion provide an encouraging environment for more open communication and a balanced relationship among participants with the patient being the most important.
Keywords: resuscitation, end of life care, physician-patient relationship, physician assisted death, medical records, palliative care, réanimation, soins de fin de vie, relation médecin-patient, mort assistée par un médecin, dossiers médicaux, soins palliatifs
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The US government lacks robust and accurate records of its military personnel. In this context, we argue that attending to veterans' recordkeeping practices matters to honouring their service to the nation. However, recordkeeping skills are not currently part of the official curriculum of active service members or veterans. Considering this situation, we ask, How do veterans in the US document their service? What are the uses of veterans' records and recordkeeping practices? Drawing from personal management of information (PMI) and rhetorical genre studies (RGS), we conducted focus groups with veterans and active service members. We found that these individuals attempted to preserve their personal records by creating love-me binders (LMBs) – a genre of records, shaped by the history of recordkeeping practices in the US Armed Forces, that supports military personnel in keeping track of their service. As a genre, love-me binders serve a rhetorical purpose: demonstrating that veterans and sometimes their relatives are eligible for benefits such as health care. Future work should consider opportunities to support veterans in creating and managing LMBs, investigate the creation and management of military records in context, and explore additional domains where records created in the workplace impact workers' personal lives.
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In the field of health, the Internet participates in the dissemination of expert knowledge and its appropriation by users, which leads to a reconfiguration of the relations with health care professionals. Results of a pan Canadian study show the creation, by means of the Internet and its interactive tools, of an alternative collective expertise regarding trans health. This expertise allows trans people to circumvent the systemic barriers to adequate health care access, fosters their empowerment in their medical choices, and reinforces their capacity to negotiate their relation with the medical system.
Keywords: personnes trans, santé, Internet, Canada, militance, trans people, health, Internet, Canada, activism
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Social media's democratic potential is now part of many political scientists' agendas even though research in this particular field is quite new. The first analysis of the use of Twitter in a Canadian political context only dates back to 2011. We contribute to recent literature by exploring the ways in which candidates used Twitter during the 2014 Quebec general elections. According to cyber optimists, the Twittersphere facilitates interactions with political leaders and increases access to information, as well as encourages political participation. On the contrary, cyber pessimists are more inclined to see digital spaces as new breeding grounds for political spin doctors. To examine these dichotomous perspectives, we conducted a content analysis of over 13,000 tweets published by candidates of the main parties. Our results demonstrate that candidates of the three main parties used Twitter mainly as a political marketing tool, namely Twitter bashing. Tweets published by candidates of Québec Solidaire (that are statistically significantly different) were mostly e-democratic.
Keywords: communication politique, médias sociaux, Québec – politique et gouvernement, communication in politics, social media, Québec – politics and government
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Keywords: Véganisme, antispécisme, cause animale, SPCA, éthique animale, Québec
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This paper explores the extent to which new media facilitate the acquisition by citizens of political information related to campaigns. It compares systematically their impacts versus those associated with traditional media. Using data from the project Making Electoral Democracy Work for two Canadian provincial elections (in Ontario 2011 and Quebec 2012), it is shown that Canadians consume traditional media more than new media and that traditional media have a significantly more positive impact than new media on the level of political information. The conclusion invites cyberoptimists to prudence regarding the democratization of information.
Keywords: information politique, élections, nouveaux médias, médias traditionnels, Canada, political information, elections, new media, traditional media, Canada
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Progressively, the social world has been equipped with new communication tools that have spread largely throughout society and have become usual tools within many families. This paper raises the issue of the work on family links by the means of digital uses during the time of transportation of children from their family residence to child welfare service. Additionally, the paper addresses the issue of the ethical stakes in relation with digital correspondence and their regulation by professionals.
Keywords: protection de l'enfance, travail des liens, TIC, contrôle social, autonomie, pratiques professionnelles, enjeux éthiques, child welfare service, working links, ICT, social control, autonomy, professional practice, ethical issues
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Research framework: Although the family is typically the place where socialization and learning begin, and where values, practices and cultures are handed down, the ways in which eco-citizenship is taught within the family remain underexplored in current research.Objectives: This introductory article, along with the other articles in this special issue, explores various aspects of the relationship between family and eco-citizenship.Methodology: This article is based on a partial review of the humanities and social sciences literature on the subject.Results: The introductory article and the texts that make up the special issue shed light on the ways in which family dynamics are changing, on children's and young people's involvement in environmental action, and on the role of institutions in the development of eco-citizenship.Conclusion: The social processes by which eco-citizenship is constructed, and the transformations that take place within families in response to eco-citizen actions, underline the need for practices and lifestyle changes that involve a diverse array of actors, including young people, their families, institutional bodies and policymakers. The scientific community needs to pay more attention to this issue, as literature on the subject is still scarce.Contribution: In addition to providing some insights into the relationship between the family and eco-citizenship, this article suggests avenues for research in cultural and international contexts, issues of social and environmental justice, and the roles played by media and digital technology in fostering eco-citizenship.
Keywords: famille, écocitoyenneté, enfant, jeune, pratique écologique, habitude de vie, mobilisation, valeurs, système éducatif, institution, family, eco-citizenship, child, youth, ecological practice, lifestyle habits, mobilization, values, educational system, institution, familia, eco-ciudadanía, niño, joven, práctica ecológica, estilo de vida, movilización, valores, sistema educativo, institución
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Research framework: Although the family is typically the place where socialization and learning begin, and where values, practices and cultures are handed down, the ways in which eco-citizenship is taught within the family remain underexplored in current research.Objectives: This introductory article, along with the other articles in this special issue, explores various aspects of the relationship between family and eco-citizenship.Methodology: This article is based on a partial review of the humanities and social sciences literature on the subject.Results: The introductory article and the texts that make up the special issue shed light on the ways in which family dynamics are changing, on children's and young people's involvement in environmental action, and on the role of institutions in the development of eco-citizenship.Conclusion: The social processes by which eco-citizenship is constructed, and the transformations that take place within families in response to eco-citizen actions, underline the need for practices and lifestyle changes that involve a diverse array of actors, including young people, their families, institutional bodies and policymakers. The scientific community needs to pay more attention to this issue, as literature on the subject is still scarce.Contribution: In addition to providing some insights into the relationship between the family and eco-citizenship, this article suggests avenues for research in cultural and international contexts, issues of social and environmental justice, and the roles played by media and digital technology in fostering eco-citizenship.
Keywords: famille, écocitoyenneté, enfant, jeune, pratique écologique, habitude de vie, mobilisation, valeurs, système éducatif, institution, family, eco-citizenship, child, youth, ecological practice, lifestyle habits, mobilization, values, educational system, institution, familia, eco-ciudadanía, niño, joven, práctica ecológica, estilo de vida, movilización, valores, sistema educativo, institución