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    Conference, symposium - Information

    Media and identities

    Actors or instruments of the construction of a sense of community, ethnic and national belonging?

    The International Conference offers to facilitate a discussion about the role of media in the construction of political identities. Media have always played the role of actors, sometimes of instruments, in the process of shaping community, ethnic and national identities as well as in shaping "imagined communities" usually induced by political actors in particular historical developments. Media discourse on the community, the ethnic group or the nation is never autonomous. It can be considered a collective production pertaining to one or another network of actors. In order to understand this process, it is important to place the content of the media in  its production context. What is the role of the journalists and the media in the creation, renewal and maintenance of community, ethnic or national identities?

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  • Namur

    Call for papers - Epistemology and methodology

    Quand l’image (dé)mobilise

    Iconographie et mouvements sociaux aux XIXe et XXe siècles

    Explorés depuis une vingtaine d’années par les sociologues et les politologues, les rapports entre images et mouvements sociaux s’avèrent peu étudiés par les historiens du contemporain. Or, au tournant des XIXe et XXe siècles, le processus de massification culturelle a donné lieu à l’avènement d’une société dite « médiatique ». Il semble dès lors pertinent d’étudier, sur la longue durée, les rapports qui se sont noués entre des documents iconographiques qui ont transité entre sphères privée et publique et des mouvements de contestation qui ont progressivement gagné en visibilité sociale.

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