Information and mediation practices and resources (Prim)

Prim develops research on mediations in the fields of Information and Commu­nication, with a special interest for actors, processes, technologies and productions.

A first research topic is devoted to the «Prac­tices and professional identities of Information and Communication actors» and includes works on media (radio, TV), journalism (with a particular focus on fact-checking practices) and the production of professional information (libraries, museums, health actors).

A second research topic focuses on «Digital mediations & mediatization». It carries out works on diverse digital me­diations (websites, applications, platforms, social media) and mediatization processes (related to culture, heritage, food or religion as social phenomena).

These orientations foster the development of studies dealing with recent transformations such as the rise of industrial digital macro-devices (editorial features of Google’s search engine, roles of content creators and audiences on Youtube’s video platform), the push towar­ds innovation in the field of architectural and furniture heritage, the digital turn for radio stations or the online circulation of “fake news”…

Grounded in the field of Information and Communica­tion sciences, current research approaches within Prim involve socio-professional and socio-economic dimen­sions; cultural, sociological and gender-oriented pers­pectives; document-based and semiotic analyses. The team claims this conjunction of crossover methods as a specific aspect of its research. Such features reflect a strong interest for both «contents» and users/actors, as they develop their own “theories” within various produc­tive apparatuses and frameworks, without neglecting the political and social dimensions of contemporary media­tions.

Research topics:

• Practices and professional identities of information and communication actors (responsable Pascal Ricaud)
• Digital mediations & mediatization (responsable Gustavo Gomez-Mejia)