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We live primarily in a digital space. The structure of the territory first appears to us by means of the mediation of digital devices, ones predominately owned by large multinational corporations. This situation implies a huge risk – that of remaining passive while private companies organize and develop these spaces for us. How might we avoid this risk? Is it possible, in the digital age, for us to be central to the production of the spaces in which we live? How might literature constitute a tool for the production of the spatial imaginary that enables us to reappropriate the places and territories managed by the information industry? This paper addesses these questions and attempts to show, on the basis of the theory of editorialization, how writing can be a way of producing the space in which we live.
Keywords: Espace numérique, architecture, autorité, écrivain, éditorialisation, Digital Space, architecture, authority, writer, editorialization
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During the first decade of digital publishing and the digitization of collections, many definitions marked the evolution of information systems and publishing designated as "digital libraries" or "cyberinfrastructures". Although precise measurement is difficult to establish due to the many methods for evaluating collections, a broad picture is given of the state of digitization activities in Quebec. This is followed by a review of the concepts of "libraries and digital heritage". Finally, current issues will be presented, as well as the responsibilities and challenges facing library communities and Quebec society in general with respect to the construction of a network of digital libraries in Quebec.
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Intangible heritage is re-enacted through its repeated performance on UNESCO's websites and YouTube. This re-enactment via media technologies takes shape through narratives, lists, and archives. The political concerns—notably, issues of authority—surrounding the formation of narratives, lists, and archives may nonetheless counter one another. Political underpinnings surface through the material technologies of these media forms as well as the context in which they are situated and circulate. Narratives, lists, and archives in divergent digital environments intertwine with heritage content to produce competing political values that such re-enactments can assume.
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The development of digital collections deeply examines the roles and practices of library professionals. In this article, we will address the question of those new collections from the standpoint of both the professionals, and the users. We propose an analysis focusing on questions of choice and selection, of organization and classification and lastly, on services rendered to users. This analysis will draw on three characteristics of digital collections as being unstable, near-boundless and their heterogeneity. These three dimensions compel librarians to reconsider their position and role regarding the intellectual and organizational development of collections. We will also address the reception of these collections from the user's perspective. In fact, today's users are often confronted to offers that resemble the structure found in libraries. The membership model leads to a lump-sum scheme payment for access, versus ownership, to a wide bundle of digital resources, in constant evolution. The very rapid development of this type of model for most cultural industries, leads individuals, thus library users, to develop an apprehensive and exploitative form of digital literacy of those collections. This goes through innovative interfaces of exploration and mediation in which we find some recurring procedures, such as endless stacks and algorithmic recommendation. We conclude this article with a brief presentation of ongoing projects facing these issues and the necessity to roll out an in-depth reflection on the position of libraries in this new ecosystem.
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Jarett Kobek's novel I Hate the Internet, published in 2016 in the United States and translated into French in 2018, offers us, through the narrator's political positions, a vision of an Internet that links the city of San Francisco through the media and economic devices of digital technologies. This link, as well as the consequences resulting from it in political and poetic terms, is what this article proposes to study.
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Boris Razon's novel Écoute (2018) has the smartphone for subject. Under the pretext of a police surveillance, it shows the flow of data emitted by a crowd of anonymous passers-by in Paris. The text is presented by its author as a fictional reprise of Georges Perec's Tentative d'épuisement d'un lieu parisien (1975). The differences between the two versions allow us to reflect on the issues raised by the fictional representation of the Internet and social digital networks.
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Introduction: Applicants to specialty programs lack guidance on knowing what exactly is desired by selection committees and program directors. Anesthesia is especially opaque, given its failure to provide transparency reports nationally. This study was developed to survey Canadian anesthesia program directors about the aspects of the application package desired in an anesthesia applicant. The primary objective is to identify the preferred attributes of anesthesia applications by those mandating the selection committees. Methods: Survey was developed via Google Surveys, and sent online over a period of two months in June and July 2020. All program directors were sent requests for filling in the survey. STATA was used for all statistical analyses. Two analyses, Mann-Whitney and ANOVA tests, were performed for comparison groups. A p < 0.05 was considered significant. Results: Fourteen of seventeen (83%) Canadian anesthesia program directors completed the survey. Having done an anesthesia elective, good performance in it, and excellence of preclinical academic performance were considered among the most important aspects of the application package with the highest ranking important and smallest standard deviation. Any form of red flag was also considered an important criterion, again with little variation among program directors. The reference letters selected by the applicants were also important, with a personal relationship and well written reference being identified as most important (p < 0.05). Conclusions: An applicant who has good academic performance, having anesthesia elective experience, personal, well-written reference letters, and general activity and interests that are not necessarily anesthesia-focused would be favoured by Canadian anesthesia programs.
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