Understanding Publics: Theories, Practices, Transformations

In the analysis of communicational practices — whether in the form of audience, audience, consumers, users, recipients, participants, spectators — there is an imprecision of terms and occurrences that leaves room for terminological and theoretical indecision. Hence the desire to clarify the contours of the notion of public, while relying on empirical material, and to examine its multiple transformations. Thanks to a collective interdisciplinary program, researchers in information and communicati