SIC in France: History and Definition

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[...] He lists 3 main ones. - Structural uses: concern the situations in which television is not watched for itself but to accompany other activities (household chores) - Relational uses: Concern the conversations that certain television programs give rise to, whether with families, friends or colleagues. - Cognitive uses: refer to all situations where the media exercise a learning function (of social norms etc.) D. Pasquier has notably shown how adolescent girls took the series Hélène and the boys as a support for their romantic relationships. [...]

[...] The SIC have been recognized late in France and it is not a subject taught before university. 1. Technical and social dimensions The SIC have developed in parallel with the growth of ICT (information and communication technologies). While, communication technologies have always existed, they are the subject of reflection from the second half of the 19th century.e century with the appearance of mass media such as the press, the telegraph. Period of great changes with urbanization or the industrial revolution. [...]

[...] the media is the intermediary between the message producer and its receiver. television, telephone, computer). 3. Objects, Approaches, Methods The objects in SIC can be very diverse. In SIC, we can study all cultural productions, whether they are popular television series) or more legitimate theater piece), internet RS, fan-fictions, BigData, political party communication, advertising). These are very varied objects but they all have in common a communicational interest, because we are always in a communication process. They may seem trivial, very ordinary because they are objects that are part of our daily life. [...]

[...] The birth of SIC in France Given that the media have long been considered an illegitimate object of study, it was only in the 1960s that the field of study of SIC began to structure itself in France around certain important figures, notably R. Barthes (father founder of semiotics in France), J. Meyriat and R. Escarpit, who come respectively from the sciences of documentation and literary studies. It was in 1975 that SIC were recognized as a scientific discipline by the State in France. [...]

[...] We are interested in the way individuals interpret the media. This social dimension pushes us to put aside technological determinism from now on. Determinism technologique: idea according to which technologies would be capable of creating things that are either positive or negative. 2 versions of the technological determinism: - current technophile/utopian: considers that technology liberates us and is necessarily synonymous with progress. - current technophobe/critic: views technology in a very negative way, the media manipulate people, destroy social bonds or make them violent. However, in a 1980 study, J. [...]