{"product_id":"understanding-publics-theories-practices-transformations-9782807618480","title":"Understanding Publics: Theories, Practices,","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the analysis of communicational practices  whether in the form of\u003cbr\u003eaudience, audience, consumers, users, recipients, participants, spectators \u003cbr\u003ethere is an imprecision of terms and occurrences that leaves room for\u003cbr\u003eterminological and theoretical indecision. Hence the desire to clarify the\u003cbr\u003econtours of the notion of public, while relying on empirical material, and to\u003cbr\u003eexamine its multiple transformations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThanks to a collective interdisciplinary program, researchers in information\u003cbr\u003eand communication sciences and in language sciences from the Center for\u003cbr\u003eResearch on Mediations of the University of Lorraine have studied the\u003cbr\u003econditions of production and diffusion of information and knowledge, the\u003cbr\u003eattitudes and behaviors of the public, the mechanisms of intercomprehension\u003cbr\u003eor of communicational blockages and the weight of technological factors in mediations. These issues are addressed using methods that combine sociological surveys, targeted ethnographic studies,\u003cbr\u003eexperiments, and corpus analyses. They are applied to a variety of fi elds,\u003cbr\u003eextending work that has already been done, but also shaking up certain\u003cbr\u003eresults.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book gathers a selection of signifi cant studies around four sections:\u003cbr\u003ethe concept of public space; the relationship to the digital; innovations in\u003cbr\u003ethe fi eld of health; the relationship to writing in the cultural sector.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PIE - Peter Lang","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51043533422935,"sku":"9782807618480","price":36.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9782807618480.jpg?v=1750958591","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/understanding-publics-theories-practices-transformations-9782807618480","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}