Exploring possible future worlds with the practice of design fiction
Speculation as a means of critical distancing from the media

Une conférence de Géraldine Wuyckens (UC Louvain)

7 décembre 2022

Media Education Reloaded: From Mediagenic to Media Praxis

My starting point is a rather pessimistic viewpoint on Media Education: since the main goals of this discipline are now integrated into the very logic of the media themselves, what else can be expected from Media Education? In other words: since values such as “emancipation”, “transparency”, “participation” are now what define the core of legitimate discourse on media and in media, which critical perspectives could we still provide as media scholars, without being suspect of undermining the noble project endorsed by this discourse, in the very name of Media Education? Of course one could have a more optimistic, but maybe lazier, interpretation, which considers that the job of Media Education is actually done, and well done, by the media themselves, and that there is then nothing more to worry about. Let’s try to be neither pessimistic neither lazy.

Lire la suite »

Médias et Médiatisation : Analyser les médias imprimés, audiovisuels et numériques

L’ouvrage coordonné par Benoît Lafon apporte une série de synthèses théoriques susceptibles de soutenir une éducation aux médias orientée vers les (processus de) médiatisations plutôt que vers l’information au sens strict (qui est une médiatisation parmi d’autres) et son évaluation. Il invite à une saisie non normative des productions médiatiques et permet de traiter comme un même ensemble les textes circulant au sein des médias d’information, des réseaux sociaux ou des publicités dans l’espace public.

Lire la suite »