" I'd rather play than look at statues ": The Experiences of Children with Art Works and Interactive Devices at an Art Exhibition

Young children have been largely neglected in research dedicated to the art museum experience. The art exhibition "Tête à tête" ("Face-to-Face"), designed for 5-12 year olds, became an opportunity to bring an exploratory contribution to three research issues: the relationship that the young child has with works of art and interactive devices, the role the adult plays in this relationship and the benefits derived from the visit. Building on observation and interviews, the article shows that children's attention is clearly drawn more towards interactive devices than art works, yet at the same time, the hypothesis that interactive devices are directly detrimental to children's reception of art works could not be confirmed. The results also emphasize the limited role that adults play in guiding the children towards the art. In the end, both adults and children appear to be satisfied overall with the playful and interactive dimension of their experience. Following this, art museums should questions themselves on how to specifically help families to better guide the young child's perspective towards the art works themselves, and also rely on the adult to encourage, in the child, a more active approach to the art work.Art exhibitions; child; family; museum experience; interactive devices; learning; interpretation; interpretation aids

Affreux, sales et méchants ! Une analyse exploratoire de la critique cinématographique du monde des affaires

Quelles représentations les films véhiculent-ils du "monde des affaires" dont ils sont, en tant que produits industriels, eux-mêmes issus ? Quelle est la nature et quels sont les enjeux d'une représentation qui apparaît singulièrement critique ? A travers l'analyse comparative de 43 oeuvres significatives de l'histoire du septième art, ce chapitre propose d'explorer les formes filmiques de cette représentation ainsi que les différents registres de critique qui la sous-tendent. L'analyse permet de mettre à jour cinq " points de fixation " structurant la représentation filmique des entreprises et des marchés (la violence, l'invisible, la pesanteur, le culte du chiffre et l'immédiat). Le chapitre explore plusieurs hypothèses susceptibles de rendre compte du " biais anti-business " dominant ces films, et s'interroge, pour conclure, sur la portée réelle d'un tel discours critique : les cinéastes proposent-ils une véritable " mise en crise " du modèle managérial dominant ?Film, représentation, critique, monde des affaires, entreprise, marché

Une approche CCT de l'expérience muséale chez les jeunes adultes: le modèle de Falk

L'objectif de cet article est de proposer un éclairage théorique neuf sur une problématique déjà ancienne : quelles sont les dynamiques de l'expérience muséale ? Nous proposons de porter un nouveau regard sur la question en mobilisant deux cadres théoriques innovants : la CCT et la théorie des motivations identitaires. Ces cadres théoriques nous conduisent à proposer un modèle de type rôles-ressources illustré par des portraits de jeunes adultes franciliens relatant leurs expériences muséales. L'intérêt majeur de ce modèle est sa focalisation sur les motivations identitaires du visiteur, qui permettent de saisir finement son projet de visite ainsi que les ressources muséales mobilisées pour le mener à bien.expérience muséale; motivations identitaires; rôles; ressources; CCT

Influence de la critique et du marketing sur la performance commerciale du film en salle et rôle modérateur de l’identité artistique. Le cas du film français en France.

L’analyse de l’impact du marketing et de la critique sur la performance commerciale de 278 films de nationalité française sortis en 2003 et 2004 nous permet globalement de confirmer les conclusions de la littérature dans le contexte spécifique du marché français. Notre étude souligne que les investissements commerciaux lors du lancement du film constituent le meilleur prédicteur du succès du film en salle, à court et long terme, et confirme également l’effet d’influence et de prédiction du succès propre à la critique médiatique. L’analyse souligne enfin le rôle de l’identité de marché du film (commerciale ou artistique) en tant que modérateur des relations entre le marketing ou la critique et la performance commerciale.In this paper, we investigate the impact of marketing expenditures and critical reviews on the commercial success of 278 new French films released in 2003 and 2004. Our results generally confirm previous research: in France, marketing and critical reviews are the two best predictors of a film’s success. Our analysis also shows that the film’s market identity (mainstream or artistic) moderates the relationships between marketing or critical reviews and commercial success.Film; Identité artistique; Box office; Artistic identity; Movie;

An Art-Based, Collective and Dialogic Ethnographic method -Unveiling corporate restructuring practices

Restructuring practices belong to today's organizational life. Even if the phenomenon is not new it significantly evolved over time, both in terms of motives and in terms of expressions, from major events to permanent practices, from crisis to competitiveness restructurings, from reactive to more proactive decisions, from highly visible to more silent decisions. Much debated in popular medias, restructuring issues have been also inspiring scholars from various fields (sociology, economics, management, law...) for now three decades. But at the same time, academic literature, especially in management, has hardly contributed in understanding the deep complexity and the multiple hidden dimensions of restructuring situations. We suggest ethnographic studies could open the " black box " of restructuring issues, thus complementing the inevitably over-simplified models testing the explanatory relationships between a set of variables or constructs. Traditional ethnographic method is scarcely chosen by scholars analyzing restructuring issues, mainly for reasons related to practical access to fieldwork: restructuring is a hot issue, and it remains difficult to access information and informants in a restructuring organization. In order to overcome these issues, we developed a specific research method what we call an Art-Based, Collective and Dialogic Ethnographic method (1.), both in its deliberate choices (1.1.) and its emergent dimensions (1.2.). Then we describe the outputs of the method (2.), in terms of creating new knowledge about restructuring issues (2.1.), but also in terms of fostering new ways of teaching, thinking or practicing restructurings (2.2.). In the final section, we discuss the basic principles of the method as well as its outcomes, especially in terms of creating "vicarious experiential knowledge" (3.). This method is based on three main features. First, we suggest investigate restructuring issues through artworks. Second, as restructurings are multi-actor situations and multi-dimensional phenomena, research on restructurings could benefit from a heterogeneous and multi-disciplinary group of actors as a community of inquirers confronting their points of view and reflecting together about the complexity and the heterogeneity of restructuring phenomena in a dialogical process of investigation. Third, combining in the same research design a heterogeneous group of actors and a series of artworks about restructurings can lead to innovative research methods: collective comments about artworks and indirect analysis of restructuring, reflexive analysis of actors' involvement, comments and discussions used as data, what we propose here as a new form of organizational ethnographic research

Search for dark matter produced in association with bottom or top quarks in √s = 13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

A search for weakly interacting massive particle dark matter produced in association with bottom or top quarks is presented. Final states containing third-generation quarks and miss- ing transverse momentum are considered. The analysis uses 36.1 fb−1 of proton–proton collision data recorded by the ATLAS experiment at √s = 13 TeV in 2015 and 2016. No significant excess of events above the estimated backgrounds is observed. The results are in- terpreted in the framework of simplified models of spin-0 dark-matter mediators. For colour- neutral spin-0 mediators produced in association with top quarks and decaying into a pair of dark-matter particles, mediator masses below 50 GeV are excluded assuming a dark-matter candidate mass of 1 GeV and unitary couplings. For scalar and pseudoscalar mediators produced in association with bottom quarks, the search sets limits on the production cross- section of 300 times the predicted rate for mediators with masses between 10 and 50 GeV and assuming a dark-matter mass of 1 GeV and unitary coupling. Constraints on colour- charged scalar simplified models are also presented. Assuming a dark-matter particle mass of 35 GeV, mediator particles with mass below 1.1 TeV are excluded for couplings yielding a dark-matter relic density consistent with measurements