Digitalization of Society and Socio-political Issues 2

Digitalization is a long socio-historic process in which all areas of society s activities are reconfigured.

In the first volume of Digitalization of Society and Socio-political Issues, there is an examination of the transformations linked to the development of digital platforms and social media which affect cultural and communicational industries. The book also analyzes the formation of Big Data, their algorithmic processing and the societal changes which result from them (social monitoring and control in particular). Through diverse critical reflections, it equally presents different ways that digital participates in relations of power and domination, and contributes to eventual emancipatory practices.

Following on, the second volume examines the transformations that are linked to digital practices that affect the production, circulation and consumption of information, as well as new forms that are taken by social mobilizations. It treats several important issues in the digital era that are more likely to become the subject of public debates, among which one can include the renewed relationship between research and digital. Through diverse critical reflections, it equally presents different ways that digital participates in relations of power and domination, and contributes to eventual emancipatory practices.

Auteur
Eric George is Full Professor at the School of Media Studies (Faculty of Communication) at the Universite du Quebec a Montreal (UQAM), Canada, and Director of the Center for Interuniversity Research on Communication, Information and Society (CRICIS), Canada.

Contenu

Acknowledgments xi
Éric GEORGE

Introduction xiii
Éric GEORGE

Part 1. The Digital and Information 1

**Chapter 1. New News Formats on/by Digital Social Networks 3
**Valérie CROISSANT and Annelise TOUBOUL

1.1. Framework for the exploratory analysis 4

1.2. Media temporalities 6

1.2.1. Signifying time 6

1.2.2. The media agenda 7

1.3. Media territories 10

1.3.1. Broadcasting tactics on Konbini 10

1.3.2. Tactics and dependencies for Brut and Le Monde 11

1.4. Conclusion 12

1.5. References 13

**Chapter 2. New Information Practices and Audiences in the Digital Age 15
**Pascal RICAUD

2.1. Understanding the reality of media change in a context of digital transition 15

2.2. A new media contract 17

2.2.1. Redefining the problematic figure of an audience 18

2.2.2. What is the real place and involvement of the audience? 20

2.3. The new intermediate figures of information (the partition of participation) 21

2.4. Conclusion 23

2.5. References 23

**Chapter 3. The Effects of Innovation on the Careers of Journalists 27
**Fábio Henrique PEREIRA

3.1. Theoretical framework 27

3.1.1. Profession and segments 27

3.1.2. A transnational identity for online journalists? 28

3.2. Methodology 30

3.3. Results 31

3.3.1. Ideological injunctions to innovation 31

3.3.2. Innovation discourses found in careers 34

3.3.3. An international circulation of discourses on innovation? 37

3.4. Conclusion 37

3.5. References 38

**Chapter 4. Virtual Reality and Alternative Facts: The Subjective Realities of Digital Communities 41
**Louis-Philippe RONDEAU

4.1. Social media and alternative facts 41

4.2. VR: a surrogate reality 42

4.3. Convergence of social and virtual realities 45

4.4. Virtual reality as a vector of empathy 46

4.5. Conclusion 47

4.6. References 48

**Chapter 5. Professional Structuring of Political Content Creators on YouTube 51
**Alexis CLOT

5.1. Being political on the Internet 53

5.1.1. Algorithms and buzz 53

5.1.2. Moderation and openness 53

5.1.3. To take on or not to take on politics 55

5.2. New grammars and old practices 56

5.2.1. Doing politics differently (Interview 7, 2018) 56

5.2.2. Journalists and videographers: rival partners? 57

5.3. Conclusion 59

5.4. References 59

**Chapter 6. When Vlogging Educates in Politics: The French Case of Osons Causer 61
**Christelle COMBE

6.1. Theoretical anchoring 62

6.1.1. Computer-mediated multimodal communication and digital discourse analysis 62

6.1.2. Multimodal interactive platforms and participatory culture 63

6.2. Purpose of the research and methodological approach 64

6.2.1. The vlog Osons Causer 64

6.2.2. The methodological approach 64

6.3. Analyses 65

6.3.1. Digital writing and building an ethos 65

6.3.2. Educating for politics: digital rhetoric and elements of didacticity 67

6.3.3. Relationality of native digital discourse 70

6.4. Conclusion 75

6.5. References 76

Part 2. Digital and Mobilizations 79

**Chapter 7. El dia de la mùsica: The Digital Organization of the 2017 Catalan Referendum 81
**Philippe-Antoine LUPIEN

7.1. Context: the organization of Catalan civil society 82

7.2. The alternative organization of the Catalan referendum 85

7.2.1. Broadcast: IPFS protocol to bypass censorship 86

7.2.2. Mobilization and tactical communication: Telegram Messenger, official ANC channel 88 7.2.3. Voting: the c...