Documents found
-
151.
-
156.
-
157.
-
158.More information
Since the mid-1990s, the Internet has been perceived as a tool to support democracy. However, recently the media has paid more attention to its negative impact on public debate. The evolution of the collective imagination of the Internet requires that we go beyond the simple binary analysis (“advantages/limits”) of its sociopolitical issues and think about how it shapes the practices and forms of public debate according to its own standards. Seven aspects of online debate are systematically analysed in this article: the replacement of the traditional gatekeepers by the algorithms developed by search engines and social media, the disappearance of authority-based arguments that are driven by popularity indicators, the anchoring of political practices in daily discussions, the identity issues associated with information-sharing, the “push button” forms of citizen expression, the mechanisms of self-belief, and the privatisation of regulatory bodies. These changes have had an impact on media and information education that information systems professionals will have to consider in the future.
-
160.More information
This exploratory study focuses on the usage of Quebec scholarly journals in social sciences and humanities disseminated by the Érudit platform. Based on the analysis of 39,437,659 downloads from 2010 to 2015, the study aims to provide an overview of the usage of scholarly journal articles disseminated by Érudit according to the discipline and source of the downloads and to, subsequently, evaluate the effect of open access policies on downloads. The results demonstrate the importance of national journals for the social sciences and humanities, as well as the positive impact of open access on the diffusion of knowledge, both in Canada and abroad.
Keywords: bibliométrie, webométrie, données d'usage, téléchargements, sciences sociales et humaines, Québec, Érudit, bibliometrics, webometry, usage data, downloads, social sciences and humanities, Quebec, Érudit