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This article examines the forms and levels of social media investment among composers of contemporary music. The speeches of the six young composers presented and analyzed here open a small window on the ways in which the entrepreneurial spirit influences their professional practices. Sensitized by peers as well as by certain school experiences to the objective need (because imposed by the conditions of compositional work) to “communicate” and to manage their own image as an artist, they invest in a variety of social media by arranging for their specific characteristics—personal websites, SoundCloud, YouTube or Facebook accounts, personal blogs, etc.—in order to gain visibility. While their uses and dosages of online writing may vary in function of aesthetic considerations as well as their artistic ages, they reveal some tensions generated by injunctions to self-employment, since the logic of symbolic profit opposes disinterestedness linked to the figure of the romantic artist.
Keywords: communication, composition, esprit entrepreneurial, médias sociaux, musique contemporaine, communication, composition, contemporary music, entrepreneurial spirit, social media
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Malagasy diaspora in France has many associations, but it's an exploded structure because of the lack of legitimacy. In this way, state actors take part in the organization of a tribune in order to push forward Malagasy diaspora. In October 2017, they organized the Forum de la diaspora malgache, which took place in Antananarivo with state actors, political actors, socio-economic actors and diaspora members. Organizers took social networks in order to promote the event. Nevertheless, people react differently. Major intercultural and international communication issues are minimized and Malagasy diaspora seems to have various meanings. In fact, there is a proletarian diaspora, an elitist diaspora but also a socio-economic diaspora.
Keywords: diasporas, réseaux socionumériques, communication interculturelle, communication internationale, transnational, diasporas, social networks, intercultural communication, international communication, transnational
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This exploratory study investigates how a typically disadvantaged user group of older, female learners from rural, low-tech settings used and perceived a Facebook group as a research supervision and distance learning tool over time. The within-stage mixed-model research was carried out in a module of a part-time, advanced midwifery education course in rural South Africa. To address the research questions, three quantitative and qualitative surveys were repeated, pre, post, and three months post evaluation. The findings indicate that using the social media space lowered learners' threshold to accessing educational resources. The increased ease of communication was afforded in particular by using mobile phones to access the space. The analysis also suggests that the social networking site became a more integral part of students' learning environments. The learners' use of the site to discuss further course and work-related issues increased during the intervention and also remained significantly higher in the three-month, post evaluation survey, indicating the routinisation and habitualisation of this learning space. The practical implications and constraints of using social networking spaces to enhance disadvantaged groups of learners' access to educational resources are discussed.
Keywords: social media, social network site, Facebook, education, supervision, research supervision, mobile learning, m-learning, coaching, mentoring, low-income country
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Keywords: Sur la route avec Bashō
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This instructional engineering research aims to promote affordance, in environmental conditions, of educational technology exemplified by the Facebook (FB) network in situ. Through quantitative and qualitative data, we observe differences between groups of students that account for variability of sociocultural affordances (allocentric, egocentric, deontic, collective). The prescribed teaching scenario influences the potential for perceived action as part of a situational dynamic and an acculturation process that depends, in part, on the students' antecedent relationship to the tool. More generally, we observe that FB's sociocultural affability involves the use of additional communication tools (SMS, email, Google Drive, WhatsApp) that wasn't predefined by the prescribed teaching scenario. Therefore, any designer of an educational scenario with FB must position it as a link in a larger technical and sociocultural ecosystem according to two criteria: they must formalize the meaning of the communication tool (FB) in relation to the tasks to be performed; and they must consider that this meaning will be the focus of the acculturation process by allowing students to make wider use of other situational tools in their network communications.
Keywords: Affordance socioculturelle, communication en ligne, Facebook, ingénierie pédagogique, Educational scenario, engineering, Facebook, online communication, sociocultural affordance
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We often think of surveillance as ubiquitous, secretive, top-down, corporate, and governmental—and in many ways, it is. Through three vignettes, this essay prods at the ways in which our everyday tools, technologies, and gestures extend surveillance's reach into our intimate lives and relationships. Each vignette is a story constructed from facts gleaned in news stories, social media, or personal conversations. As such, these vignettes are neither empirical nor entirely speculative. In an effort to consider surveillance as an ongoing and daily activity, they invite readers into more intimate contexts than those that are usually the object of rigorous scholarly analysis. In their intimacy, these stories serve to remind us of the ways in which communication devices are always, in some capacity, tracking and trailing our desires.
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This collective work features ten case studies contributing to the research on the transformations of information practices in digital context, especially around the diffusion and discussion of news content on Twitter and Facebook. All chapters highlight the variety of practices through which users engage with content on these platforms. They also bring forth a number of methodological considerations and challenges to think upon for social scientists working on digital technologies.