Wong Nga Lai. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 96-104). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Chapter Chapter One --- An Introduction / Chapter 1.1 --- Foreword: Fermat's Last Theorem --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- Introduction --- p.3 / Chapter Chapter Two --- Literature Review / Chapter 2.1 --- News Diffusion Theory --- p.7 / Chapter - --- Personal Importance / Chapter - --- Emotional Response and Parasocial Interaction / Chapter 2.2 --- Comparing The First Sources of News Diffusion --- p.14 / Chapter - --- Perceived Salience / Chapter - --- Credibility / Chapter - --- Other Perception Differences / Chapter - --- News Diffusion and the Use of the Internet / Chapter 2.3 --- Possible Internet Uses in News Diffusion --- p.21 / Chapter - --- The Internet As a Personal Medium / Chapter - --- The Internet As an Information Source / Chapter - --- Summary / Chapter Chapter Three --- Methodology / Chapter 3.1 --- Pre-survey Preparations --- p.33 / Chapter 3.2 --- Operationalization and Measurement of Variables --- p.36 / Chapter Chapter Four --- Results and Discussion / Chapter 4.1 --- Rate of Diffusion --- p.42 / Chapter - --- September 11: A stunning high diffusion rate / Chapter - --- Leung-Fu Engagement: A romance known to 90% of a population / Chapter 4.2 --- Results and Discussion --- p.48 / Chapter H1:- --- September 11: Television was the predominated source / Chapter - --- Leung-Fu Engagement: Newspaper was the predominant source / Chapter H2:- --- September 11: High personal importance evoked interpersonal communication / Chapter - --- Leung-Fu Engagement: Personal importance determined extent of diffusion / Chapter - --- Active early knowers were key players in diffusion / Chapter H3a:- --- September 11: Upset people were more active in telling others / Chapter H3b:- --- Leung-Fu Engagement: No indication of para-social interaction / Chapter H4:- --- September 11: Initial sources differentin perceived credibility / Chapter - --- Leung-Fu Engagement: Different media different in perceived salience / Chapter H5& H6: --- The news diffusion function of the Internet / Chapter 4.3 --- Summary of Results --- p.75 / Chapter Chapter Five --- Conclusion / Chapter 5.1 --- Discussion of Findings --- p.80 / Chapter 5.2 --- Discussion of the Use of the Internet in News --- p.86 / Diffusion / Chapter - --- The Internet as an additional information source / Chapter - --- The Internet as a mediated personal channel / Chapter - --- The Internet as an initial source / Chapter - --- Enhancement of Internet Communication by 3G technologies / Chapter 5.3 --- Final Words --- p.92 / Reference --- p.96 / "Appendix 1 Questionnaire for ""September11""" / "Appendix 2 Questionnaire for ""Leung-Fu Engagement"""

Ma Lai Yee. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 105-109). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Acknowledgements --- p.i / Abstract (English version) --- p.ii / Abstract (Chinese version) --- p.iii / Chapter Chapter 1 --- Introduction / Political use of the Internet: Utopian or distopian? --- p.1 / Virtual communities and social movements --- p.4 / Chapter Chapter 2 --- Political and Technological Landscape in Hong Kong / Chapter I) --- Political Background / The Handover of Hong Kong to China in1997 --- p.7 / The Tradition of Pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong --- p.8 / The 1 July Rally in2003 --- p.9 / Chapter II) --- Technological Background / Internet Penetration in Hong Kong --- p.11 / Chapter Chapter 3 --- Review of Literature / Chapter I) --- "Internet, Uses and Gratifications and political effects" / The Uses and Gratifications Approach: Theoretical assumptions --- p.14 / Uses and Gratifications and the Internet --- p.15 / Gratifications and Political media use --- p.17 / "Internet usage, Gratifications and Political effects" --- p.19 / Chapter II) --- "Social movement, collective identity and the Internet" / Social Movements in contemporary social context --- p.23 / Collective Identity in Social Movements --- p.26 / Identity Formation in Computer-mediated Communication --- p.28 / The Internet as a Social Movement Medium --- p.30 / Chapter Chapter 4 --- Cyberactivism in Hong Kong / 1 July Protest and Cyber Activism in Hong Kong --- p.36 / The Case: Yumkung.com --- p.38 / Chapter Chapter 5 --- Methodology / Research Design and Sampling --- p.44 / Survey Sample Profile --- p.45 / Content Analysis --- p.46 / Textual Analysis --- p.47 / Measurements of variables --- p.48 / Analytical Procedures --- p.50 / Chapter Chapter 6 --- Results and Interpretations / Gratifications of Yumkung.com from Survey --- p.52 / Gratifications of Yumkung. com from Content Analysis --- p.54 / Collective Identity from textual Analysis --- p.60 / Correlational Analysis of Collective Identity --- p.71 / Predictors of Collective Identity --- p.74 / Correlational Analysis of past political participations --- p.77 / Predictors of past political participations --- p.80 / Correlational Analysis of intentions for future political participations --- p.82 / Predictors of intentions for political participations --- p.85 / Chapter Chapter 7 --- Discussions and Conclusions / Uses and Gratifications and its Theoretical Contribution --- p.88 / Collective Identity Formation in Yumkung.com --- p.92 / Political Participations among Participants in Yumkung.com --- p.94 / Theoretical and Practical Implications --- p.99 / Chapter Chapter 8 --- Limitations and Suggestions for Future Research --- p.102 / References --- p.105 / Appendix 1 Questionnaire --- p.110 / Appendix 2 Coding Guide of Content Analysis --- p.115 / "Appendix 3 Invitation letter to Mr. Paul Lin, Yumkung.com's Webmaster" --- p.117

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2018-08-08T11:31:32Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Sonia Maria da Silva Balão.pdf: 990062 bytes, checksum: d661de8299c0d3453ea314d82c5dbbd6 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-08T11:31:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Sonia Maria da Silva Balão.pdf: 990062 bytes, checksum: d661de8299c0d3453ea314d82c5dbbd6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-06-20 / Nowadays, a great number of young people present themselves in clinic with complaints of a lonely and isolated personal life, with an affective-social withdrawal and impoverishment, sadness, hopelessness, anguish, internal guilt, helplessness, lack of will to live, cranky, self agressive and self-multilation behaviors. These factors, beyond worrying, point to pathology and to complex emotional difficulties. Another common feature of these young patients is to dedicate a lot of time to the virtual world instead of real life. On the social network, they have a group of lots of friends and dedicate a lot of their time with unknown people. This clear dissociation between the cloistered real life and the active virtual life demands questioning the social network role and think its excessive use as a way of psychological defense. Therefore, through the case study of a 16 years old young woman (when she begins the analysis), this research project proposes to understand this dissociation and its possible relation of the phenomenon to some psychopathology, specially depression, covering the contradictory way of the young people to have a depressive, apathetic and isolated existence in real life and manifest themselves vitally, interactively and intensely in social networks. The theorical basis of this investigation is the Winnicott’s Theory of Personal Maturity and the focus was on the articulation between the clinical case and the theory through the theoretical-methodological research and the research-listening. Reports from the patience, written by the psychologist during her three first years of psychological treatment and WhatsApp and Facebook messages given by the patience were all the valid corpus for this investigation. By avoiding contact with the loneliness that her illness aroused, the patient presented herself to treatment incapacitated to be alone and think about herself. Because of the lack of limits, she made use of the virtual world and isolated herself from shared reality. With psychic action from the analytic process, she started to stay connected to the cyber world while she needs, returning to the real world whenever she feels strengthened. Therefore, based on the analysis of the results of this clinical case, the use of communication in social networks by young depressive people is based on a paradox: the defense of the maniac type by the performance of the false self, to avoid depressive psychopathology, and, at the same time, the attempt to be cured by the new possibilities when the patient can experience the false self in consigning thru it the emersion of the true self / Atualmente, muitos jovens apresentam-se em consultório com queixas de uma vida pessoal solitária e isolada, com retraimento e empobrecimento afetivo-social, tristeza, desesperança, angústia, culpabilidade interna, desamparo, falta de vontade de viver e comportamentos irritadiços, autoagressivos e de automutilação, fatores esses que, além de preocupantes, apontam para uma possível patologia e para dificuldades emocionais complexas. Outra característica comum a esses jovens pacientes é dedicarem muito tempo ao mundo virtual em detrimento do real. Nas redes sociais, têm um grande grupo de amigos virtuais e dedicam muito tempo à interação com desconhecidos. Essa clara dissociação entre a vida real enclausurada e a vida virtual ativa impõe questionar o papel das redes sociais como uma forma de defesa psicológica. Frente a isso, a partir do estudo do caso clínico de uma jovem que, no início da análise, tinha 16 anos, esta pesquisa propõe compreender essa dissociação e a possível relação do fenômeno com alguma psicopatologia, em especial a depressão, abrangendo o modo contraditório dos jovens de ter um existir depressivo, apático e isolado na vida real e de se manifestarem de maneira vitalizada, interativa e intensa nas redes sociais. O fundamento teórico deste estudo é a Teoria do Amadurecimento Pessoal de Winnicott e o enfoque principal foi a articulação do caso clínico com a teoria por meio da pesquisa teórico-metodológica (pesquisa-investigação) e da pesquisa-escuta. Relatos da paciente anotados pela psicóloga em seus três primeiros anos de tratamento e mensagens de WhatsApp e de Facebook fornecidas pela paciente constituíram o corpus de base da pesquisa. Ao evitar contato com a solidão que seu adoecimento despertava, a paciente apresentou-se para tratamento incapaz de se manter sozinha e refletir sobre si mesma e, por não encontrar limites, fez uso patológico do mundo virtual, afastando-se da realidade compartilhada. Com a evolução psíquica a partir do processo analítico, ela passou a se conectar ao mundo cibernético dentro de sua necessidade, retornando ao mundo real sempre que se sentia fortalecida. Desse modo, a partir da análise desse caso clínico, chegou-se ao resultado de que o uso da comunicação nas redes sociais pelos jovens depressivos baseia-se num paradoxo: a defesa maníaca pela atuação do falso self, a fim de evitar o sofrimento da psicopatologia depressiva, e, ao mesmo tempo, a tentativa de cura por meio de novas experiências que o paciente pode vivenciar quando o falso self cede e consente a emersão do self verdadeiro

本論文通過十二個月的田野研究，探討城市化進程中，鄉鎮、城鎮與城市等三個處於不同城市發展階段的地方，信息化進程中的性別政治有何異同。本研究的核心問題是：城鎮化與信息化的交互作用如何進行？在城鎮化與信息化同時推進的當下中國，個體，尤其是個體的性別化身體，如何與以電腦、互聯網爲代表的數字科技之間産生脫嵌與再嵌入的"雙向形塑關係？ / 本研究運用科技馴養、個體化和性別-科技共創理論，分析城鎮家庭中電腦和互聯網的社會化生活。本研究發現中國社會現代性建構中，城鎮用戶通過在家庭內部採用電腦和互聯網，逐步形成一種數字化家庭關係，其中互聯網本地化特徵明顯。此外，本研究還發現，性別化的網絡互連的個體化是當下中國社會中的城鎮化、信息化發展過程中的主要特徵。本研究採用綫上與綫下相結合的多點民族誌的混合方法，探討在中國城鎮化過程中研究性別與互聯網的共創關係。 / Based on ethnographic data collected in 12 months of field work, this thesis studies the gender politics in the process of digitization and urbanization by comparing the phenomenon in a village, a town, and a city. The three main research questions of this study are: How are the interactions between urbanization and digitalization? How do digitization and gender relations mutually construct each other in the process of urbanization? / Using theories of technology domestication, individualization theory and the mutual construction of gender and technology, I analyze the use of computers and internet in the social life of rural and town families. This research found out that in the process of modernization, as rural and town families adopted the use of computers and internet; they gradually transformed themselves into, digitalized families. Furthermore, the individualization of gendered networks stood out as the key characteristic of urbanization and digitalization of post socialist China. This research pioneered the combination of multi-sited ethnography and virtual ethnography in exploring the interplay between gender and the internet in Chinese urbanization. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / 任珏. / Thesis (Ph.D.) Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2014. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 201-228). / Abstracts also in Chinese. / Ren Jue.

University of Macau / Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities / Department of Communication

This dissertation explores Mobile Media Technologies (MMT’s) namely, cellphones, laptops and MP3 players, and their prevalence in public space as well as how they are being used within the space. Much of my research analyses the impact of MMT’s on social behaviour and the extent to which they can be seen as the harbingers of a new “postmodern” form of social organisation. My research is predominantly an observational study which is conducted within the postmodern space of the shopping mall. Through my research I discuss the multiple spaces within the shopping mall environment and I explore how humans behave, interact and construct their identities within this space; these ideas are evaluated in terms of the “modern” and the “postmodern” paradigms. “Postmodernity” and “modernity” are not mutually exclusive and as a result there are ambivalences in terms of how individuals relate to how MMT’s are being used in public space. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2008.

This study explores the complex relationship between radical right rhetoric and the genre of apocalyptic rhetoric. The radical right consists of the White Nationalist and Patriot movements, two common "hate group" movements in the United States. The Klanwatch (1998d) explains that the number of hate groups in the United States grew by 20 percent in 1997. They attribute much of this growth to the movement's use of the Internet. Although these hate groups are highly diverse, Christian Identity is a common theology to which many members of the radical right adhere.This study analyzes two artifacts representational of Christian Identity rhetoric. These artifacts were found on the Web site of the Northwest Kinsmen, a radical right group from the Pacific Northwest. Christian Identity is a "pseudo-Christian" theology that claims that white Christians are the true Israelites and that Jews are actually "children of Satan." Christian Identity followers believe that there will be a racial war (i.e., racial apocalypse) in which white Christians will triumph over the forces of evil (Abanes, 1996).This study utilizes the rhetorical method of generic criticism to determine that the Christian Identity rhetoric present on the Northwest Kinsmen's Web site is apocalyptic rhetoric. Generic theory, the theoretical foundation of this study, argues that rhetorical genres have common situational, substantive, and stylistic features and a common "organizing principle" that unifies the genre. Therefore, this study compares the key features of apocalyptic rhetoric to the Northwest Kinsmen artifacts. Through this study, a greater understanding of the social reality, beliefs, attitudes, and values of the radical right, Christian Identity rhetors is obtained.This study discovers that the Christian Identity rhetoric found on the Northwest Kinsmen's Web site is apocalyptic rhetoric. This study illustrates that these Christian Identity rhetors believe that they are living in a chaotic world of inexplicable problems. Through apocalyptic rhetoric, the rhetors help explain the "crises" facing the audience and therefore restore order in their lives. Specifically, this study shows how these apocalyptic rhetors utilize conspiracy theories to restore order. Additionally, it illustrates how the rhetorical strategies associated with apocalyptic rhetoric (i.e., typology, transfer, and style and language) are used to enhance the credibility of the rhetor and the legitimacy of even the most racist assertions. Finally, this study provides insight into the use of the Internet by radical right groups. / Department of Speech Communication

O adolescente é considerado um dos principais agentes de transformação social, um manancial de expectativas do futuro, atualizando a família e os que estão em seu entorno sobre o que se passa na sociedade. Atualmente, passa por experiências de extrema velocidade: acesso a uma quantidade de informações quase inesgotáveis e contatos imediatos, sem delimitação de fronteiras físicas, através da Internet. Esse recurso não só revolucionou as diferentes tecnologias, mas também mudou a configuração social em que vivemos, a forma como percebemos o mundo, como nos inserimos nele, e, principalmente, a nossa forma de ser. Em face dessas mudanças, que acontecem em tempo real, o computador conectado à Internet tornou-se para muitos um companheiro fiel de todas as horas, sobretudo para o adolescente, que parece usá-lo como recurso indispensável aos seus contatos com o outro, com o mundo. A contemporaneidade tem marcas que são comuns a todos os sujeitos. No entanto, a experiência do adolescente em seu processo de transição em um mundo de extrema velocidade tem sido marcada pela indefinição de projetos futuros, fugacidade, volatilidade, consumismo, entre outras questões que têm dificultado todo seu processo de amadurecimento. A insegurança, característica desse momento, é ainda realçada pelo desamparo, pela falta de referências, pela falta de continência e pela impossibilidade de criação de projetos para a vida adulta. Projeto de vida aqui tem um sentido mais abrangente, não diz respeito apenas a uma dimensão profissional, mas à inclusão do sujeito no universo de relações sociais e afetivas, com vistas à implementação de perspectiva para uma vida adulta. Tudo isso nos levou a indagar as possíveis repercussões do uso da Internet na criação dos projetos de vida dos adolescentes. Para tanto, buscou-se refletir especificamente sobre as seguintes questões: Quais os sentidos do uso da Internet para os adolescentes? Os adolescentes pesquisados se preocupam em criar projetos de vida? É possível relacionar o uso da Internet à elaboração de seus projetos de vida? Para dar conta dessa empreitada, foi realizado um estudo teórico baseado na referência winnicottiana, sobretudo nas noções de transicionalidade, ilusão, espaço potencial e experiência cultural. Participaram da pesquisa dez adolescentes do sexo feminino, com idade entre 16 e 17 anos, sendo todas estudantes da rede pública estadual da região metropolitana do Recife-PE, cursando entre o primeiro e o terceiro ano do ensino médio. Os dados coletados foram analisados priorizando-se a autopercepção das participantes e os resultados obtidos demonstraram que a Internet é um ambiente que pode ser usado criativamente, de acordo com as demandas do sujeito. Além disso, promove uma passagem do virtual ao real, na medida em que as adolescentes navegam em um mundo sem fronteiras, onde podem brincar, criar, ensaiar para o futuro e ver como acontece na vida real / The teenager is considered one of the main agents of social transformation, a wealth of expectations of the future, updating the family and those around them about what is happening in society. Currently, the youth goes through extremely speedy experiences: access to an almost inexhaustible amount of information and immediate contact, without demarcation of physical boundaries through the Internet. This feature not only revolutionized the different technologies, but also changed the social configuration in which we live, how we perceive the world how we are embedded in it, and, above all, our way of being. Given these changes, which occur in real time, the computer connected to the Internet has become for many a faithful companion of all hours, especially for teenagers who seem to use it as an indispensable resource for their contacts with others, with the world. The contemporary world has marks that are common to all subjects. However, the experience of adolescents in their transition into a world of extreme speed has been marked by uncertainty of future projects, fugacity, volatility, consumerism, among other issues that have hindered their entire process of maturity. Insecurity, characteristic of this time is further enhanced by helplessness, lack of references, lack of continence and the impossibility of creating projects for adult life. Life project here has a broader meaning, it concerns not only a professional dimension, but the inclusion of the subject in the universe of social and affective relationships with a view to implementing a vision for adult life. All this led us to investigate the possible effects of Internet use in the creation of projects of life of adolescents. To this end, we sought to reflect specifically on the following questions: What are the meanings of Internet use for teens? Are the teens surveyed concerned with creating life projects? It is possible to relate the use of the Internet to the development of their life projects? To realize this endeavor, we performed a theoretical study based on Winnicotts reference, especially the notions of transitionality, illusion, space potential and cultural experience. The participants were ten female adolescents, aged between 16 and 17 years, all students in public schools in the metropolitan area of Recife-PE, studying between the first and third year of high school. The collected data were analyzed with special emphasis on the participants self perception and the results showed that the Internet is an environment that can be used creatively, according to the demands of the subject. It also promotes a passage from virtual to real, to the extent that adolescents navigate in a world without borders, where they can play, create, rehearse for the future and see how it happens in real life

Orientador: Paulo Lício de Geus / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Computação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-19T00:13:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 FigueiraFilho_FernandoMarques_D.pdf: 2794727 bytes, checksum: a731af5c0a52a8d8ee1e3dcb39119b01 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011 / Resumo: A Internet parece estar realizando o sonho de muitos visionários ao angariar parcela crescente do conhecimento humano e tornar seu acesso mais fácil. Entretanto, o modelo de interação para busca e exploração desse conhecimento é ainda similar àquele utilizado, por exemplo, por bibliotecários para consultar acervos de livros e publicações. Usuários entram com uma consulta constituída por palavras-chave e recebem como resposta uma lista de resultados que contém os termos utilizados na consulta. A exploração do conhecimento disponível através desse modelo apresenta dois problemas. Primeiro, os sistemas de busca são implementados sob o pressuposto que o conjunto de palavras-chave capaz de filtrar documentos relevantes é familiar ao usuário. No entanto, a heterogeneidade dos usuários da Internet frente ao imenso volume de informação disponível implica em diferentes níveis de familiaridade dos usuários com o conhecimento disponível. Segundo, a interpretação dos resultados retornados pelo sistema, de acordo com esse modelo, é delegada ao indivíduo, de modo que o usuário torna-se responsável por analisar e sintetizar o conteúdo filtrado para cumprir com os seus objetos de busca. Isto torna-se um problema em atividades de busca de longo prazo, que visam explorar o conhecimento para fins de aprendizado, revisão bibliográfica, dentre outras. A presente tese baseia-se em arcabouços teóricos das ciências sociais e em estudos empíricos para caracterizar e propor soluções para esses problemas. Os resultados mostram que a exploração do conhecimento na Internet depende de um conjunto de artefatos externos aos sistemas de busca atuais. Também mostram que a interação dos usuários com esses artefatos e com agentes humanos é parte integrante das atividades cognitivas desempenhadas para exploração do conteúdo disponível na Internet. Diferentes níveis de familiaridade demandam alternativas ao modelo de interação consulta-resposta e sugerem a integração de tecnologias da web social no desenvolvimento de sistemas de informação que visam suportar tarefas de busca exploratórias / Abstract: The Internet seems to be accomplishing the dream of visionaries by collecting part of the growing human knowledge and making its access easier. However, the interaction model for search and exploration of this knowledge is still similar to the one used, for example, by librarians to query over collections of books and publications. Users formulate queries that are constituted by keywords and receive a list of results in return, which contains the terms used in the entered query. The exploration of the available knowledge through this model presents two main problems. First, search systems are implemented under the assumption that the set of keywords to filter relevant documents is familiar to the user. But the heterogeneity of Internet users when faced to the huge amount of available information implies in different levels of familiarity of these same users regarding the available knowledge. Second, the interpretation of results returned by the system, according to this model, is delegated to the individual, and the user becomes responsible for analyzing and synthesizing the filtered content in order to meet his/her search goals. This becomes a problem in the case of long term search activities, that aims at exploring knowledge for purposes of learning, bibliography review and so on. This thesis is based on theoretical frameworks of the social sciences and on empirical studies to characterize and come up with solutions to those problems. The findings show that knowledge exploration on the Internet depends on a set of artifacts that are external to the search systems currently available. They also show that the user interaction with these artifacts and also with human agents is a fundamental part of the cognitive activities performed for knowledge exploration on the Internet. Different levels of familiarity demand alternatives to the query-response model and suggest the integration with social web technologies to develop information systems that support exploratory search tasks / Doutorado / Ciência da Computação / Doutor em Ciência da Computação

Cette dissertation doctorale entend contribuer au renouveau des sciences de l’information et de la communication (SIC) et plus particulièrement de la construction du « public » dans un contexte caractérisé par une remise en question des savoirs théoriques et méthodologiques associée à l’émergence d’internet. <p>Cette problématique est développée en trois temps. Dans un premier temps, nous effectuons une synthèse des constructions du public dans la recherche sur les médias classiques. Les multiples « publics » repérés dans la littérature scientifique en information et communication (infocom) sont organisés à deux niveaux. D’une part, nous distinguons les constructions du public comme « acteur collectif » et comme « acteur assistant ». D’autre part, à un niveau plus fin d’analyse, les concepts de public comme « groupe » et comme « collectivité » permettent de distinguer deux types de public comme « acteur collectif » tandis que les concepts de public comme « récepteur » et comme « coproducteur » renvoient à deux catégories différentes de public comme « acteur assistant ».<p>Dans un deuxième temps, nous examinons plusieurs ajustements des constructions du public apportés (ou à apporter) par la recherche en infocom à propos d’internet. En ce qui concerne la construction du public comme « groupe », celle-ci recouvre désormais une grande variété de groupes dont les processus de communication interne deviennent un objet d’étude à part entière. De plus, la construction comme « public exposé » (une catégorie de public comme « récepteur ») s’articule à la problématique de l’accès aux informations. Enfin, la construction du public comme « coproducteur » voit son champ d’application considérablement élargi.<p>Dans un troisième et dernier temps, nous réalisons une méta-analyse de la construction du public d’internet. Le corpus est composé de 186 articles issus de six revues scientifiques en infocom. Les variables examinées sont :l’origine culturelle des auteurs, l’orientation éditoriale des revues, les thématiques de recherche, les constructions du public, les constructions d’internet et les méthodes de recherche. Les résultats révèlent notamment que les ajustements nécessaires des constructions du public sont peu représentés dans le corpus. Si la construction comme « groupe » est plus fréquente que la construction comme « collectivité », la première est toutefois concentrée dans deux revues et semble peu diversifiée. De plus, le public comme « coproducteur » est rarement étudié alors qu’internet facilite la participation à la production des messages et favorise l’appropriation des contenus. <p>Par ailleurs, la construction du public d’internet est culturellement marquée :les chercheurs européens le construisent plutôt comme « acteur collectif » tandis que les chercheurs américains privilégient la construction comme « acteur assistant ». De plus, les constructions du public ne sont pas associées aux mêmes constructions d’internet :le public comme « acteur collectif » est associé à une construction d’internet comme « medium » tandis que le public comme « acteur assistant » est associé à une construction d’internet comme « support », « média » ou « contenu ». Enfin, les constructions du public d’internet donnent lieu à des méthodes de recherche distinctes, le public comme « acteur collectif » étant articulé aux méthodes qualitatives et le public comme « acteur assistant » aux méthodes quantitatives. /<p>This doctoral thesis aims to contribute to the revival of the information and communication sciences (ICS) whose theoretical and methodological tools are being called into question by the emergence of information and communication technologies. This study focuses on the construction of the “audience” in the age of internet and develops this issue through three chapters.<p>The first chapter synthesizes the constructions of the audience in the research on traditional media. The numerous “audiences” identified in scientific literature from ICS are organized at two levels. On the one hand, we distinguish the audience as “collective actor” from the audience as “attending actor”. On the other hand, and more precisely, the “group” and the “collectivity” are considered two different kinds of audience as “collective actor” while the construction of the audience as “attending actor” is broken up into two constructions: the “receiver” and the “co-producer”.<p>The second chapter discusses (some of) the alterations to the constructions of the audience that ICS have made (or should make) because of the properties of the internet. With regard to the audience as “group”, it covers henceforth a wide range of groups whose internal communication processes become an object of study. Moreover, the construction of the audience as “exposed audience” (a category of audience as “receiver”) is linked up with the issue of information access and the construction of audience as “co-producer” sees its sphere of validity considerably enlarged. <p>The third and last chapter develops a meta-analysis of the construction of the internet audience. The corpus is composed of 186 articles published in six scientific journals from ICS. The variables examined are: the cultural origin of the authors, the editorial influence of the journals, the research subjects, the constructions of the audience, the constructions of internet and the research methods. Among other results, it appears that the “new” constructions of the audience are not much studied in the corpus. The construction as “group” is more frequently encountered than the construction as “collectivity” but is restricted to two journals and is little diversified. Moreover, the audience as “co-producer” is rarely constructed whereas internet facilitates the participation in message production and the appropriation of contents. Furthermore, the construction of the internet audience is a culturally defined process: European researchers rather construct the internet audience as “collective actor” while American researchers tend towards a construction of the internet audience as “attending actor”. Those constructions are associated with different constructions of internet: the audience as “collective actor” is linked up with the construction of internet as “medium” while the audience as “attending actor” is associated with the constructions of internet as “device”, “channel” or “content”. Finally, the constructions of the internet audience are methodologically different: the audience as “collective actor” is studied through qualitative methods while the audience as “attending actor” tends towards quantitative methods.<p> / Doctorat en philosophie et lettres, Orientation information / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished