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François Blais' novel Document 1 is full of scenes featuring digital technologies, which have become omnipresent in our daily lives. The virtual universe is represented in the novel as a direct access to the reader's world. This article questions the interactions between fiction and reality in the novel by focusing on the different effects produced by the Web's presence in the narrative.
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Although about forty governments control their online environments, few have done so more skilfully than China. This concern has become especially pronounced in recent years due to a rapid diffusion and development of cloud computing, which is described as the ultimate spying machine. In this paper, I propose a framework for identifying clear contexts and the attendant mechanisms associated with authoritarian regimes' Internet control measures. I build on the concept of an institutional field formed around Internet control in authoritarian regimes. Viewing cyber-control as an institutional field enables me to examine the evolution of regulative, normative and cognitive institutions. I advance a model that explains how an institutional field evolves.
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This paper looks at whether environmental crime can be presented in a way that neutralizes its criminal aspects, as is frequently done with white-collar crime. There is a large body of literature that analyses the excuses, justifications, or trivializing language used by natural or legal persons involved in economic criminality. White-collar crimes, however, are generally non-violent. Can environmental crimes, which often involve violence, also be the subject of such neutralizing discourse? To investigate this we analyzed statements and communications from representatives of Trafigura, a Dutch multinational commodity trading company that was implicated in the dumping of toxic waste in Abidjan (Côte d'Ivoire), an act that killed more than ten 69 people and injured thousands. We conclude that those involved in environmental crimes use the neutralizing techniques invoked in discussions of white-collar crimes. Environmental crimes tend to be interpreted by offenders as economic, rather than violent, crimes, making it easier for offenders to adopt the methods of neutralization used for white-collar crimes when discussing the social, economic, and political context in which environmental harms occur.
Keywords: Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, Trafigura, crimes environnementaux, techniques de neutralisation, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, Trafigura, environmental crimes, techniques of neutralization, Abidján, Costa de Marfil, Trafigura, delitos medioambientales, técnicas de neutralización
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The WPHP Monthly Mercury is the podcast for the Women’s Print History Project (WPHP), a bibliographical database that seeks to provide a comprehensive account of women’s involvement in print in a long Romantic period. The podcast provides us with an opportunity to develop in-depth analyses of our data. The December 2020 episode, “1816 and 2020: The Years Without Summers,” explores women’s writing in the WPHP inspired by 1816, known as the Year Without a Summer, when abnormally cold weather, exacerbated by the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars, led to crop failures and typhus and cholera epidemics. Often remembered as the cold and fog-laden year in which an 18-year-old Mary Shelley came up with the idea for Frankenstein, 1816 was a year of catastrophe more generally. In this episode, hosts Kate Moffatt and Kandice Sharren explore how the bibliographical metadata contained in the WPHP can uncover a wider range of voices writing about catastrophe. Our findings, which include political writing, travel memoirs, and poetry, reveal the lived experiences of women in a tumultuous time. We conclude by meditating on the nature of literary production during catastrophe, and how our own experiences during the upheavals of 2020 influenced our approach to the books that we uncovered.
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This contribution studies the complexity of the uses of Facebook, WhatsApp and Google Drive within the framework of university pedagogical devices for success support and their evolution under the influence of the COVID-19 health crisis. More precisely, we explore the complexity and the evolution of these three tools within the framework of a junior enterprise based on pedagogical engineering, oriented to students' success, and confronted with a health crisis involving a national lockdown and a transformation of education, ranging from hybrid teaching to online classes.
Keywords: Complexité, usages formels/informels, dispositifs d'aide à la réussite universitaire, junior-entreprise, Facebook – WhatsApp – Google Drive, hybridation, COVID-19, Complexity, formal/informal uses, teaching aids and support systems, junior enterprise, Facebook - WhapsApp - Google Drive, hybridization, online class, COVID-19
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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