Search Results

As Virginia Woolf said, our world is in the midst of childbirth. Multifaceted change is underway in cultural institutions, libraries, museums and, generally, in all places where knowledge is created. Change is transforming our work habits, practices and relationships with our users. How do we evaluate and highlight our place in the knowledge society? How do we reconcile change with the important notions of truth, cultural and social solidarity as well as sharing, that forceful catalyst of human dignity?Harnessing the mass of data to make them reliable and truthful and taking ownership of new technologies in order to build a free and open tender are part of the challenge to be met by those whose primary mission is to build a knowledge base, that is accessible, sincere, and altruistic for all.The change we are currently experiencing is the result of four major events in human history: the transformation of the financial, economic and commercial map of the world; the unfolding of a digital era that has forever changed the relationship of human beings to knowledge; the demographic expansions in Asia and Africa that will soon disrupt the distribution of the world's population; and, finally, the colossal environmental issues that our society must immediately face.Beginning with the first developments in Québec society and followed by an internationally renowned artificial intelligence laboratory, history is created with the information used by the human mind to which it imparts a vital energy. Change must be undertaken by sharing information in all its forms and with all, which means putting an end to the scandal that is illiteracy in our learned and connected societies. This also requires accelerating the transition to a digital civilisation, by establishing a digital legal deposit, the scanning of heritage collections and the creation of avant-garde libraries that provide a space for the innovative and creative laboratories such as the future Saint-Sulpice library.We also have to think about the future of creation. In an era of robotics, algorithms, artificial intelligence, and big data, what does the future hold for the safeguard, the production and the sharing of knowledge?

While the purchase of a ticket marks the theatregoer's commitment to consuming the Broadway musical, the experience of the live performance is not the end of his consumption of the given musical, or of the Broadway brand. Post-performance, the spectator will communicate his memories of and emotional responses to the musical, along with the ideas it promoted, advertising the musical's brand for the producers, free of charge. This article traces the developments in musical theatre marketing from 1960 onwards to illustrate how and why spectators choose to consume musicals. With analysis of marketing campaigns, audience demographic studies conducted by Broadway producers and other archival material, this article privileges the musical theatre spectator's value as both consumer and commodity.

Keywords: cinéma autochtone, cinéma québécois, femmes réalisatrices, Sonia Bonspille Boileau, Nish Media, Rustic Oracle

This paper examines the resistance and revival of outmoded photographic technologies, in a new format we call “new analogue photography”. This type of image resignifies old analogue practices as stated by Ansel Adams (2019a, 2019b, 2018) in three key areas: 1. meaning, 2. methodology, and 3. aesthetics. It is the grain image adapted to the connected media ecosystem in post-photographic times. The contribution of millennials and gen Z to the growth of this type of photography is presented and discussed. At the conclusion, the decalogue of the new analogue photography is stated, summing up its practice and significance across ten topics.

Keywords: analogue photography, post-photography, hybridism, new media ecology

The author describes the overhaul of the $2.5 trillion health care system in United States which is the most dramatic revamp of health policy in four decades. Finally, after several votes, between November 2009 and March 2010, in U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, concluding an epic struggle between Democrats and Republicans, the new Law signed and promulgated by the President last March is extending coverage to an estimated 32 million uninsured Americans and bars insurance practices like refusing coverage to those with pre-existing medical conditions.

Montreal playwright Steve Galluccio states, “Italian immigrants, they weren’t gay.” The traditional values of Italians in Canada have often led to the marginalization of members of the LGBTQ+ community. For some, being queer and being of Italian origin is irreconcilable. Traditionally, the queer experience is not acknowledged in Italian immigrant homes. Today, there is still some reticence in the Italian-Canadian community, in both private and public spaces. Galluccio writes about his Italian origins and about being openly gay. Through his writing, he brings together two communities (LGBTQ+ and Italian Canadians) that often seem disconnected. This paper discusses Galluccio’s contribution to Italian-Canadian literature. It introduces his works, from the very popular Mambo Italiano to the most recent At the Beginning of Time, and looks at the connection between his literary contribution, Italian heritage, and queer identity.

In 2019, the Notre-Dame de Paris was devastated by a fire. The importance of the Notre-Dame as world heritage was underlined by the countless contributions, donations and solidarity all around the world that pledged to help to rebuild the cathedral. Among all contributions Ubisoft’s idea to offer its game Assassin's Creed: Unity for free to the public was arguably most celebrated as innovative and creative measure to secure heritage in case of its destruction. This case opens up new perspectives and roles of heritage management as also the development and distribution of video games in the twenty first century. The case of Ubisoft’s Notre-Dame is discussed in this paper under a comparative analysis to the game Never Alone and a critical inquiry towards the benefits, consequences and repercussions of the growing importance of synchronising heritage protection with video game production. Also, the perceptive aspect of connecting to heritage as player through a game and its spatial aspects will be explained under Chapman’s concept of narrative gardens.

Keywords: Notre-Dame, Ubisoft, Assassin’s Creed: Unity, Digital Heritage, Game Studies

We will explore the thesis that social media are used to achieve many of the same objectives of traditional wall-based graffiti and as such are forms of electronic graffiti that can reach a much larger audience than traditional graffiti scratched or painted on walls, buildings, monuments and other public surfaces. The parallel of graffiti and e-graffiti is that both provide a medium of communication and expression to those without access to the traditional mass me- dia channels of society controlled by the owners (private or governmental) of commercial me- dia outlets. We will focus in this study on the uses of social media that parallel wall-based graf- fiti such as personal aggrandizement, boasting of achievements, protesting, expressing woke culture, political propaganda and protest, hatred, love, and rebellion. We also identify similari- ties and differences between wall-based traditional graffiti and e-graffiti.

Keywords: graffiti, electronic graffiti, e-graffiti, social media, tagging, hate messaging, hate ra- dio, graffiti art