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Mining social web data is a challenging task and finding user interest for personalized and non-personalized recommendation systems is another important task. Knowledge sharing among web users has become crucial in determining usage of web data and personalizing content in various social websites as per the user’s wish. This paper aims to design a framework for extracting knowledge from web sources for the end users to take a right decision at a crucial juncture. The web data is collected from various web sources and structured appropriately and stored as an ontology based data repository. The proposed framework implements an online recommender application for the learners online who pursue their graduation in an open and distance learning environment. This framework possesses three phases: data repository, knowledge engine, and online recommendation system. The data repository possesses common data which is attained by the process of acquiring data from various web sources. The knowledge engine collects the semantic data from the ontology based data repository and maps it to the user through the query processor component. Establishment of an online recommendation system is used to make recommendations to the user for a decision making process. This research work is implemented with the help of an experimental case study which deals with an online recommendation system for the career guidance of a learner. The online recommendation application is implemented with the help of R-tool, NLP parser and clustering algorithm.This research study will help users to attain semantic knowledge from heterogeneous web sources and to make decisions.

Keywords: Knowledge Management, Knowledge extraction, Web mining, Decision making system, R tool, Natural language processing, query mapping, K-means Clustering, Knowledge engine, Social web source, online recommender interface.

Being a teacher in digital age goes well beyond the classroom and is part of a reality that is becoming increasingly complex at the post-secondary level (college and university), particularly with the multiplication of online training opportunities. Post-secondary teachers are primarily content specialists (Bolduc, 2010) and educational training is not mandatory for them. While the need for educational training is partially met by a supply of credited and non-credited training by higher education institutions, we are now seeing a decentralization and fragmentation of the offer. In line with the Digital Action Plan and the Digital Competency Framework, this text will explain the links between professional development expectancies and the potential of digital technology.

Keywords: Développement professionnel, compétence numérique, collégial, universitaire, Professional development, digital literacy, higher education

This article talks about a new cultural and intellectual phenomenon witnessed lately in the Arab world. We call it here “new humanist Arab movement” in view of its resemblance with what happened in Europe during the Renaissance and what happened in the Islamic world during the Golden Age. We believe this movement can be divided into 3 branches: Secular, reformist and anti-religious.

Keywords: Arab progressive movement, contemporary Arab progressives, cultural revolution in the Arab world, secularization in the Arab world, religious reform in the Arab world, progresismo árabe, humanismo árabe contemporáneo, revolución intelectual en el mundo árabe, irreligión árabe, reforma de la religión en el mundo árabe

This article examines the origin and reception of Les Nombrils, a series created by Québécois authors Marc Delaf and Maryse Dubuc in the teen magazine Safarir in 2004, before being exported the following year to Spirou, a Belgian magazine widely distributed in France. During the exportation process, conscious choices were made to attract a new and younger audience: the series' Québécois elements (notably vocabulary) disappeared and its nastiness was softened. Through a detailed analysis of the eight albums released, interviews with drawing assistants and a review of the authors' exchanges with their fans, notably via the Facebook page they administer, this article aims to highlight strategies used to erase the series' Québécois elements in order to adapt it for a French‑speaking European audience. Over the course of the publication, while Les Nombrils achieved remarkable public success, Québécois characteristics reappeared sporadically in sets or in cultural references, but remained discreet around the question of language. Now more visibly American, the series' nature is no longer perceived to be Québécois as such.

Keywords: Bande dessinée, franco-belge, Québec, circulation, Comics, franco-belgian, Quebec, Circulation

Le partage des expériences de santé dans les espaces d’échange en ligne est une pratique bien documentée dans la littérature. En 2018, nous avons réalisé une observation exploratoire de groupes Facebook sur l’anxiété, qui a révélé l’importance des pratiques de mise en récit de soi dans ces espaces. La mise en récit participe du processus de reconstruction symbolique de soi et du monde après l’expérience de maladie, les récits constituant une forme de médiation du soi. Cependant, les récits déployés en ligne présentent souvent des formats particuliers car ils se construisent dans des contextes communicationnels dans lesquels les interactions jouent un rôle majeur. L’approche des « Small Stories » propose un outil pour analyser le micro-processus de construction des histoires à travers la dynamique de …

Discussions about the issues of heritage and ownership of culture have become especially heated in the current political climate in Ukraine. In the process of re-writing the Soviet historical narrative and re-claiming their national and cultural identity, it is very important for Ukrainians to mark their geographical and cultural borders. Heritagization plays an extremely important role in this process. In this paper, I use the example of Petrykivka painting as a case study to illustrate the current tendencies and problems with claiming heritage. Deploying the tools of critical heritage studies, I want to explore two themes: 1) how the process of heritagization has been a political act, used both by the Soviets and in independent Ukraine, but with different agendas; and 2) the long-standing effects of such heritagization and involvement of international cultural organizations in it.

In this article, we are interested in the contemporary practice of the strip in Quebec through the approaches of three currently active comic artists: Daniel Shelton, Pascal Girard, and Boum. Their production over the last thirty years serves as a corpus of research. We have identified three strip practices: formalist, occasional, and digital to argue that this narrative form is beginning to establish itself sustainably in the landscape of Quebecois comics, both through the work of comic artists, as well as through that of other cultural actors (editors, teachers), but mainly through the evolution of the three main media of dissemination of the strip: the newspaper, the album, and the screen.

According to Paul Ricœur, “Time becomes human to the extent that it is articulated through a narrative mode, and narrative attains its full meaning when it becomes a condition of temporal existence” (Ricoeur, 1984). From this perspective, narrative is our principal tool for situating ourselves in time—and for experiencing time within ourselves. The digital, on the other hand, may be characterized as “a tool for the phenomenal deconstruction of temporality” (Bachimont 2010). This is reflected in its two main tendencies: that of real time calculation, conveying the impression of immediacy, and that of universality of access, conveying the impression of availability. What happens then when we exploit the particularities of digital technology to tell a story? What kind of temporal experiences are constructed by new forms of digital narrative, and how are they constructed? Reciprocally, what new narrative forms, or even new concepts of narrative do these new temporal experiences provided by digital technology offer to us? Through the examples of three types of digital stories, including an interactive narrative for the smartphone based on notifications, a web narrative based on a real time data flow, and the widely used social media feature of stories, this article presents the diverging potentialities of the relationship between the digital, temporality, and narrative.

Keywords: Jeu vidéo, Récit, Écriture numérique, Temporalité, Notification, Réseaux sociaux, Fiction, Narration, Paul Ricœur, Video game, Narrative, Digital writing, Temporality, Notification, Social networks, Fiction, Narration, Paul Ricœur