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Libraries have existed for millennia, but today many question their necessity. In an ever more digital and connected world, do we still need places of books in our towns, colleges, or schools? If libraries aren't about books, what are they about? In Expect More: Demanding Better Libraries For Today's Complex World, Lankes walks you through what to expect out of your library. Lankes argues that, to thrive, communities need libraries that go beyond bricks and mortar, and beyond books and literature. We need to expect more out of our libraries. They should be places of learning and advocates for our communities in terms of privacy, intellectual property, and economic development. Expect More is a rallying call to communities to raise the bar, and their expectations, for great libraries.

Keywords: bibliothèques, bibliothéconomie, communauté, apprentissage, innovation, création de connaissances, libraries, librarianship, community, learning, innovation, knowledge creation

This article focuses on Organization United for Respect at Walmart, one of the major labour organizing campaigns that has been mounted in the United States over the past decade. In 7 years, OUR Walmart (OWM) achieved a series of victories over the giant retailer, which for 50 years remained inflexible in the face of all forms of employee demands (referred to as “Associates”). From its emergence as an association funded by one of the major North American trade union organizations in 2011, until its continuation independently of union funding after 2014, by means of what mechanisms and practices did OWM expand, sustain, and manage to obtain from the multinational a series of minimum wage increases for more than one million employees? The article highlights the variety of concrete practices involved in organizing employees within a multinational service company through a study of the OWM association. In particular, it underscores the evolution of the association's increasingly successful and innovative use of digital technologies between 2013 and 2018. The effort to organize Walmart's employees thus went from being a field campaign orchestrated by a large trade union in its early days to becoming an independent campaign with a much smaller staff and fewer financial resources.OWM thus brought about a shift in technology and in organizational networking through digital innovations and active employee participation. This shift provided an opportunity to make racial and gender inequalities visible while promoting the co-construction of large-scale professional solidarity in companies and sectors that had previously been considered out of reach and which today, though considered essential, are particularly exposed to workplace health and safety hazards.

Keywords: inégalités, numérique, bas salaire, travailleurs inorganisés, campagne d'organisation, États-Unis, inequalities, digital technology, low-wage workers, labour organizing, United States

Online disinformation is not on the decline. The term infocalypse was actually coined by Schick (2020) to describe the seriousness of disinformation in the form of malicious deepfakes, which obscure what was previously considered authentic. This reflective article explores the complexity of the deepfake phenomenon to emphasize the urgent need for research that directly addresses educators and decision-makers. Under the lens of citizenship education, we argue that teachers, parents and educational actors must support students in developing critical thinking, agency in the digital environment and the ability to recognize deepfakes so that they can protect themselves and counteract this phenomenon. To answer the question "Why educate young people on malicious deepfakes?” we started by exploring this phenomenon and its dangers in the context of disinformation. First, this article exposes how deepfakes destabilize the perceptual foundations of human knowledge and discusses their threat to our societies. Secondly, it presents avenues considered and draws attention to the urgency of alerting young people to these dangers and involving them in counteracting this form of disinformation. Lastly, the article offers avenues for research in digital citizenship.

The academic world is paying particular attention to the economic and social issues associated with female entrepreneurship. This is the case in Africa, where the figure of the woman is a pillar of development, and where we have seen the creation of mampreneurs networks in recent years. The objective of this article is to bring to light the modalities of business network support for mampreneurs, as well as their contributions, in the African context. It is based on a case study of a network of 75 mampreneurs established in Côte d'Ivoire. Our results show that the network favors psychological, professional and family support, whose animation modalities are affective, cognitive and conative. We also identified moral, identity, transgenerational and therapeutic benefits.

Keywords: entrepreneuriat féminin, mampreneurs, réseau, accompagnement, Afrique, female entrepreneurship, mampreneurs, network, entrepreneurial support, Africa, espíritu empresarial femenino, mampreneurs, red, empresarial apoyo, África

This paper is the result of eight years of work on the concept of editorialization that was done in the context of the international seminar “Écritures numériques et éditorialisation”, which I have been co-organizing with Nicolas Sauret since 2008. I propose a definition of editorialization as the set of dynamics that produce and structure digital space. These dynamics can be understood as the interactions of individual and collective actions within a particular digital environment. Starting from this definition I try to describe how authority works in digital space.

Keywords: éditorialisation, espace numérique, auctorialité, organisation des contenus, édition numérique, editorialization, digital space, authority, content curation, digital editions

This paper is the result of eight years of work on the concept of editorialization that was done in the context of the international seminar “Écritures numériques et éditorialisation”, which I have been co-organizing with Nicolas Sauret since 2008. I propose a definition of editorialization as the set of dynamics that produce and structure digital space. These dynamics can be understood as the interactions of individual and collective actions within a particular digital environment. Starting from this definition I try to describe how authority works in digital space.

Keywords: éditorialisation, espace numérique, auctorialité, organisation des contenus, édition numérique, editorialization, digital space, authority, content curation, digital editions

The Congrès mondial acadien (CMA, or World Acadian Congress) is a major discursive site for contemporary Acadie. While the event generates its share of political and polemical discourse, I propose here to examine the official digital promotional campaign (produced by the organizing committee and shared online) for the seventh edition of the CMA, to be held in August 2024 in southwestern Nova Scotia. An analysis of the messages and graphics published online shows that its discourse involves a series of ingredients inviting visitors to experience one of the most fashionable forms of tourism. Furthermore, by offering potential customers an authentic, exclusive, and memorable experience, the discourse deployed here goes beyond capitalizing on these current values; it works to defuse a recurring debate surrounding the CMA: who is it for? What does it aim to achieve? What does it offer Acadians? And, above all, who are these Acadians?

Keywords: Analyse du discours, Congrès mondial acadien, discours numérique, discours promotionnel, tourisme expérientiel

Openness is a fundamental value underlying significant changes in society and is a prerequisite to changes institutions of higher education need to make in order to remain relevant to the society in which they exist. There are a number of ways institutions can be more open, including programs of open sharing of educational materials. Individual faculty can also choose to be more open without waiting for institutional programs. Increasing degrees of openness in society coupled with innovations in business strategy like dynamic specialization are enabling radical experiments in higher education and exerting increasing competitive pressure on conventional higher education institutions. No single response to the changes in the supersystem of higher education can successfully address every institution’s situation. However, every institution must begin addressing openness as a core organizational value if it desires to both remain relevant to its learners and to contribute to the positive advancement of the field of higher education.

Keywords: open education, online learning, distance learning, higher education

The aim of this article is to shed some light on patterns of and major motives for the adoption of different types of disruptive learning innovations by Unisa academics. To realise the aim of the study, the following questions were addressed: What are the reasons for adopting disruptive learning innovations? What is the level of interaction with disruptive innovations? What training do Unisa academics require on disruptive innovations? A qualitative approach was adopted by conducting focus group interviews with 76 Unisa academics. The data was analysed using open and axial coding, where dominant themes from the discussions were identified and discussed in detail. The findings show that the interaction of Unisa lecturers with different technologies varied from technology to technology. The study also found that disruptive innovations play a pivotal role in opening avenues and collapsing the transactional distance in an ODL institution. Some lecturers lack skill in using some technology, which is a cause for concern. Therefore, lecturers need to be trained in using technology and develop a good understanding of it to improve teaching and learning.

Keywords: disruptive innovations, distance education, open distance learning, Web 2.0, new media, electronic learning, distributed learning