[ecrea] EUTIC 2012 - stakes and uses of information and communication technologies

VIIIth International Conference
EUTIC 2012
STAKES AND USES OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES
European and interdisciplinary network on stakes and uses of information 
and communication
technologies
Publics and media practices
University of Lorraine (Metz), October 17th, 18th and 19th, 2012
EUTIC's partner universities and institutes
Centre de recherche sur les médiations (CREM), Université de Lorraine (Fr)
MICA-GRESIC, Université de Bordeaux (Fr)
CSO, Université Libre de Bruxelles (Be)
CITI, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Pt)
NT-LAB, Université d'Athènes (Gr)
Waterford Institute of Technology (Irl)
Call for Papers
After Brussels, the European and interdisciplinary network for stakes 
and uses of ICT (EUTIC)
invites you to its next conference that will take place at the 
University of Lorraine-Metz, on
October 17th, 18th and 19th, 2012.
From the first conference in Bordeaux ("Social and cultural aspects", 
September 22-24 2005) to
the latest one in Brussels ("Transformations of organisations, changing 
issues", November 23-25
2011), the founders of the international research network EUTIC and the 
organizers have
decided to highlight the interdisciplinary nature of the studies on what 
is at stake in
communication and information technologies.
For the eighth edition of the conference, the organizers of the Research 
Center on Mediations
(CREM) wish to connect various approaches that have already been 
addressed in previous
conferences (the informational, communicational, didactic, linguistic, 
sociological and cultural
approaches) by renewing the approach of media practices of new 
technologies through the
notion of "public".
New technologies used to " make public "
The ICT gather various practices in a space that is at the same time 
homogeneous and
heterogeneous and make co-existing spaces that are usually separated: 
the private sphere, the
working space, and the public sphere. It is therefore useful to observe 
how these practices
overlap in order to understand how these three spaces intertwine. The 
tendency to
"publicisation" - meaning an action which brings knowledge to a majority 
of people -
understood as reinforcing individualized practices which creates a 
tension that asks for analysis.
Likewise, transformation of media practices triggered by this tendency 
of "making public" are
worth being questioned in order to understand what is at stake - whether 
it concerns an
amateurish practice or a professional one. On the smartphones for 
instance, the culture of Push
illustrates the need to make public and at the same time participates in 
logics of instantaneity and
alert. Similarly, practices of online "re-documentarisation", through 
socialboomarking websites or
folksonomies for example, question how information access systems work 
and the duality of
informational mediations.
ICT and public segmentation
Questioning media practices can also be achieved through the 
consideration of the notion of
"public" taken as a segmented set of people likely to be touched by a 
particular media (from
people in general to people in particular, to a target audience). It is 
interesting to observe how
users are constructed projected images of new technology in each media 
discourses (from
informational discourse to didactic discourse). ICT can therefore be 
considered as new means of
tracking down the public, to define it better, to map or model its 
behavior in order to understand
its aspirations, and then to implement automated processes of offer's 
personalization. These
questions of definitions and representations of the public lead to the 
analysis of what is at stake
in the conception of renewed forms of information and communication 
technologies.
Editorial stakes
The creative industries of gaming - which try to extend their target 
audience thanks to new forms
of games (serious games, expressive games…) - are particularly involved 
in this aim. The
segmentation of practices of "a" public or an audience can also be 
observed on the information
sites which rethink their editorial offer, for instance, in order to try 
catching public's attention
during a whole day by offering various ways of access to the information 
in a spirit of synergy
between different platforms (newspaper in the morning, mobile during 
home to work
commuting contexts, web at the workplace…).
Editorial stakes can also concern the question linked to models of web 
publication (editorial
offer, scientific publication…) or, in the case of scientific journals, 
the use of norms (metadatas,
vocabulary…) in the process of digital documentary production 
(encyclopaedia, journals,
pedagogic documents…). Issues concerning document adaptation, environment's
personalization, etc. can also be addressed here.
Didactic and educational stakes in the digital technology era
The question of public characterization is a true educational and 
didactic stake in the era of digital
technologies. In fact, one of the major objectives of schools as public 
spaces is to trigger a social
construction where the pupil must not only be a member but also an 
actor. This social
construction is based on interaction of several linguistic and cultural 
worlds: that of the child, the
school or the teacher. How does school welcome this public of 
"children/pupils" within its
project, which is to allow the access to a certain form of intellectual 
and cultural development, at
a time when pupil has more and more access to knowledge outside school? 
How does school
manage to keep a traditional literacy in front of a literacy that it is 
just starting to investigate and
still doesn't know much about (ICT and internet in particular)?
The emergence of new publics?
Finally, these examples raise corollary questions: do ICT create new 
publics? Do we observe
radically different behaviors compared to previous practices? Are the 
possible differences more
visible among young people? Is the notion of "digital native" a relevant 
criterion in order to
qualify publics or communities? How is it possible to organize the 
attendant measures of publics?
For instance, how to improve the follow-up of students in order to 
personalize educational offer
in a better way?
Being part of a public using ICT
A third possibility would consist in taking the audience's point of view 
in order to observe
changes and contamination in practices of internet' users from one media 
to another. The
example of transformations in journalism in the digital era shows how 
interesting it is to observe
them through the influence of social networks. An article is not only 
read, commented on,
"twitted" but is also shared among internet users. Web journalism, from 
audience's point of view,
relies then on an appropriation process, a potential enrichment, a 
circulation or even spreading of
information by the public itself. The public can be understood as a 
(co-)actor of devices involving
ICT mediation. What kind of knowledge can be gained from participatory 
devices? Does the
notion of "consum-actor" make sense?
These propositions of ICT studies about notion of " public " are not 
exhaustive. The papers can
consider other ways to question the links between public, media 
practices and ICT. As for
previous editions of EUTIC conference, the objective is to have a 
cross-disciplinary approach
(information and communication sciences, sociology, semiotics, 
anthropology, political
sciences…) about various sectors (online publication, web journalism, 
digital games, distance
learning, public awareness campaigns with social and health character, 
cultural mediation through
the big museums or cultural events, heritage communication, political 
communication, etc.) and
topics (websites, online newspapers, online communication campaign, 
online advertising, digital
games, mobile internet, social networks, online collaborative tools, 
learning platforms, search
engines, etc.).
The proposals can investigate or use the notion of public or be 
completely detached from it in
favour of other approaches that are judged more relevant (for instance: 
uses/users; acting/actors,
…) and take part in the study of one of the following socio-digital 
fields (non-exhaustive list):
- Online information access: media websites, institutional websites, 
portals and search
engines.
- Online publication: sharing websites (photo, music, videos, documents, 
bookmarks…),
digital archiving, mutation of editorial logics, streaming websites, 
open access for
scientific publication, blogs and social networks.
- Online collaboration: forums, collaborative tools (encyclopedia, 
groupware), digital
working environment, watch tools.
- Didactic mediation: distance or hybrid teaching/learning, 
computer-aided teaching /
learning.
- Cultural industries production: online games, mobile apps.
- Territorial reconfiguration: questioning the concept of border, stakes 
and limits of
geographical, historical, political and sociological redistribution with 
ICT.
Contributions
The papers must be written in French or in English and must include the 
following elements:
On the first page:
- Paper title
- Identification of the author(s) (detailing who is going to present the 
paper if there are more than
one author): institution, function, mail address, complete postal 
address, phone number
On the second page:
- Paper title
- 5 keywords
- A long summary (5 000 to 6 000 characters, bibliography not included) 
which presents the topic
of the contribution, the theoretical framework, the methodology, the 
corpus (or the analyzed
data) and the main acquired or expected results.
Proposals are to be sent before March 4th, 2012 by email to the 
following address:
(eutic2012 /at/ gmail.com)
Please mention in the object of the email: " proposition de 
communication EUTIC 2012 "
Notifications to authors will be given on April 5th, 2012. The 
scientific committee can ask some
adjustments to the accepted papers. Full texts (25 000 to 30 000 
characters, spaces included) will
have to be sent for publication by June 10th, 2012 at the latest, 
according to the modalities that
will be outlined on the conference website.
A priority treatment procedure is possible for colleagues who need to 
ask a grant from the AUF
(or another institution) in order to get funding for their travels and 
housing or who need to ask
for a Visa. Please indicate in the email containing the summary that you 
need a quick answer.
Additional information
Conference location
Université de Lorraine
Ile du Saulcy
METZ, France
Publication of conference proceedings
All accepted papers will be published on a CD-ROM (with ISBN) of the 
conference proceedings.
Moreover, a selection of best papers will be published in the proceeding 
serie of the French
journal Questions de communication, after peer-review by its editorial 
committee.
Nb: publication in the CD-ROM proceedings and in Questions de 
communication journal depends on
authors' registration and participation (at least one of the authors) to 
the conference. Registration
must be made one month before opening date of the conference at the latest.

Managing committee of EUTIC network
VIEIRA Lise, University of Bordeaux - EUTIC network's coordinator (Fr)
BALTAZART Didier, University of Reims (Fr)
CORREIA Carlos, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (P)
GOUSCOS Dimitris, University of Athens (Gr)
LISHOU Claude, University Cheick Anta Diop (Sn)
MEIMARIS Michel, University of Athens (Gr)
O' DOWD SMITH Christine, Waterford Institute of Technology (Irl)
PATESSON René, Université Libre de Bruxelles (Be)
PINEDE Nathalie, University of Bordeaux (Fr)
STEINBERG Pascale, Université Libre de Bruxelles (Be)
TOMÉ Irène, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (P)
Partner universities and institutes
CITI, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (P)
CREM, University of Lorraine (Fr)
CSO, Université Libre de Bruxelles (Be)
MICA-GRESIC, University of Bordeaux (Fr)
NT- LAB, University of Athens (Gr)
Waterford Institute of Technology (Irl)
Scientific committee EUTIC 2012
AKAM Noble, University of Bordeaux (Fr)
ARDOUREL Yves, University of Bordeaux (Fr)
BALTAZART Didier, University of Reims (Fr)
BOULANGER Hélène, University of Lorraine (Fr)
BERNHARD Rieder, University of Amsterdam (NL)
CORREIA Carlos, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (P)
DOYLE Liam, Waterford Institute of Technology (Irl)
DEQUESNE Joëlle, Université Libre de Bruxelles (Be)
FICHNOVA Katarina, University in Nitra (Sk)
GENVO Sébastien, University of Lorraine (Fr)
GIACCARDI Chiara, Università cattolica del sacro cuore di Milano (It)
GOUSCOS Dimitris, University of Athens (Gr)
HEINDERYCKX François, Université Libre de Bruxelles (Be)
JACQUEMIN Bernard, University of Haute Alsace (Fr)
LAZAR Mirela, University of Bucarest (Ro)
KELLNER Catherine, Université of Lorraine (Fr)
KIYINDOU Alain, Université Bordeaux 3 (Fr)
LISHOU Claude, Université Cheikh Anta Diop Dakar (Sn)
MARTIAL Odile, École polytechnique de Montréal (Cn)
MASSOU Luc, University of Lorraine (Fr)
MATTEUCCI Maria Cristina, University of Bologna (I)
MAX Charles, University of Luxembourg (Lux)
MEIMARIS Michel, University of Athens (Gr)
MERCIER Arnaud, University of Lorraine (Fr)
MORELLI Pierre, University of Lorraine (Fr)
MOTTET Martine, Université Laval (Ca)
NDOYE Abdou Karim, Université Cheikh Anta Diop Dakar (Sn)
O' DOWD SMITH Christine, Waterford Institute of Technology (Irl)
PATESSON René, Université Libre de Bruxelles (Be)
PIGNARD-CHEYNEL Nathalie, Université Stendhal Grenoble 3 (Fr)
PINEDE Nathalie, University of Bordeaux (Fr)
ROUISSI Soufiane, University of Bordeaux (Fr)
RONDELLI Fabienne, University of Lorraine (Fr)
SVARBOVA Eva, University in Nitra (Sk)
SIMON Justine, University of Lorraine (Fr)
SIMONNOT Brigitte, University of Lorraine (Fr)
STEINBERG Pascale, Université Libre de Bruxelles (Be)
TOMASETTO Carlo, University of Psychologie de Bologne (I)
TOMÉ Irène, CITI, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (P)
TOULLEC Bénédicte, University of Lorraine (Fr)
VATTER Christoph, University of Sarre (De)
VIEIRA Lise, University of Bordeaux (Fr)
VERSTRAETEN Michel, Université Libre de Bruxelles (Be)
VON PAPE Thilo, University of Stuttgart (De)
WALTER Jacques, University of Lorraine (Fr)
WILKIN Luc, Université Libre de Bruxelles (Be)
Organizing committee
BALTAZART Didier, University of Reims (Fr)
CHAMPENOIS Benjamin, University of Lorraine (Fr),
DOLLANDER Thibaut, University of Lorraine (Fr)
HUMBERT Pierre, University of Lorraine (Fr)
KELLNER Catherine, University of Lorraine (Fr)
MERCIER Arnaud, University of Lorraine (Fr)
MORELLI Pierre, University of Lorraine (Fr)
PIGNARD-CHEYNEL Nathalie, Université Stendhal Grenoble 3 (Fr)
RONDELLI Fabienne, University of Lorraine (Fr)
SIMON Justine, University of Lorraine (Fr)
TOULLEC Bénédicte, University of Lorraine (Fr)
VIEIRA Lise, University of Bordeaux (Fr)
Calendar
January 2012 Call for papers
4th March 2012 Deadline for reception of the abstracts
5th April 2012 Notification to the authors
10th June 2012 Deadline for reception of full papers
13th July 2012 Notification to the authors and required corrections
7th September 2012 Deadline for payment of subscription fees for the 
conference
and for conference dinner
5th October 2012 Deadline for reception of final papers
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