Le Terrain socio-musical populaire au Québec : « Et dire qu’on ne comprend pas toujours les paroles… »

Depuis environ cinq ans, le duo Kashtin connaît un succès remarquable au Québec tout en chantant presqu'exclusivement dans leur langue maternelle. Le phénomène Kashtin constitue un terrain privilégié pour observer les modalités et les enjeux du développement contemporain de la musique populaire au Québec, dont il révèle la complexité comme la mouvance. La popularité de Kashtin et les particularités de son insertion dans le champ québécois sont-ils l'indice de nouveaux canons musicaux et cultures en émergence ? Cette question est à l'origine du présent article dont la visée consiste à présenter quelques outils conceptuels permettant une analyse critique des discours et des lieux de pouvoir changeants au sein desquels s'opère, à la croisée d'articulations globales et locales de l'activité musicale, une redéfinition de la musique populaire au Québec et, dès lors de la musique québécoise.In the last five years, the Kashtin duo bas enjoyed remarkable success in Québec performing almost exclusively in their mother tongue.TheKashtin phenomenon affords a prime vantage point for surveying the progress of contemporary developments in popular music in Québec, whose complexity and impetus are thus revealed. Are Kashtin's popularity and special place in the Québec context an indication ofnew musical canons and emerging cultures? Posing this question at the outset, this article proceeds to delme some conceptual tools for the critical analysis of changing modes of discourse and changes in the power establishments, within which a redefinition of popular music, and of music in general, is taking shape in Québec

Case 6 : Reducing Poverty in Canada: Public Policies & Population Health

The case is aimed at providing students with an overview of the burden of poverty in Canada and the effects of poverty on the health of Canadians. It exposes students to the various definitions of poverty, as well as its measures, including the Gini index, which is an internationally recognized measure of income distribution used to assess overall inequity. While it is challenging to define poverty and identify its multifactorial root causes, the link between poverty and ill-health is stronger. The case exposes students to existing federal, provincial and territorial policies and plans aimed at reducing poverty and supporting low income families. It asks the student to focus on the development and implementation of an innovative poverty reduction plan in British Columbia, one of the Canadian provinces without a provincial poverty reduction strategy

Let's Talk About It! Subjective and Objective Disclosures to Social Robots

This study aims to test the viability of using social robots for eliciting rich disclosures from humans to identify their needs and emotional states. Self-disclosure has been studied in the psychological literature in many ways, addressing both peoples' subjective perceptions of their disclosures, as well as objective disclosures evaluating these via direct observation and analysis of verbal and written output. Here we are interested in how people disclose (non-sensitive) personal information to robots, in an aim to further understand the differences between one's subjective perceptions of disclosure compared to evidence of disclosure from the shared content. An experimental design is suggested for evaluating disclosure to social robots compared to humans and conversational agents. Initial results suggest that while people perceive they disclose more to humans than to humanoid social robots or conversational agents, no actual observed differences in the content of the disclosure emerges between the three agents

Recovery from disability after stroke as a target for a behavioural intervention: Results of a randomised controlled trial

Purpose: Disability following stroke is highly prevalent and is predicted by psychological variables such as control cognitions and emotions, in addition to clinical variables. This study evaluated the effectiveness of a workbook-based intervention, designed to change cognitions about control, in improving outcomes for patients and their carers. Method: At discharge, stroke patients were randomly allocated (with their carers) to a 5-week intervention (n = 103) or control (normal care: n = 100). The main outcome (at 6 months) was recovery from disability using a performance measure, with distress and satisfaction as additional outcomes. Results: The intervention group showed significantly better disability recovery, allowing for initial levels of disability, than those in the control group, F(1,201) = 5.61, p = 0.019. Groups did not differ in distress or satisfaction with care for patients or carers. The only psychological process variable improved by the intervention was Confidence in Recovery but this did not mediate the effects on recovery. Conclusions: A large proportion of intervention participants did not complete the workbook tasks. This was perhaps associated with the fairly low level of personal contact with workbook providers. The modest success of this intervention suggests that it may be possible to develop effective behavioural interventions to enhance recovery from disability in stroke patients

Building Long-Term Human–Robot Relationships: Examining Disclosure, Perception and Well-Being Across Time

While interactions with social robots are novel and exciting for many people, one concern is the extent to which people’s behavioural and emotional engagement might be sustained across time, since during initial interactions with a robot, its novelty is especially salient. This challenge is particularly noteworthy when considering interactions designed to support people’s well-being, with limited evidence (or empirical exploration) of social robots’ capacity to support people’s emotional health over time. Accordingly, our aim here was to examine how long-term repeated interactions with a social robot affect people’s self-disclosure behaviour toward the robot, their perceptions of the robot, and how such sustained interactions influence factors related to well-being. We conducted a mediated long-term online experiment with participants conversing with thesocial robot Pepper 10 times over 5 weeks. We found that people self-disclose increasingly more to a social robot over time, and report the robot to be more social and competent over time. Participants’ moods also improved after talking to the robot, and across sessions, they found the robot’s responses increasingly comforting as well as reported feeling less lonely. Finally, our results emphasize that when the discussion frame was supposedly more emotional (in this case, framing questions in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic), participants reported feeling lonelier and more stressed. These results set the stage forsituating social robots as conversational partners and provide crucial evidence for their potential inclusion in interventions supporting people’s emotional health through encouraging self-disclosure

Social robots for health psychology: a new frontier for improving human health and well-being

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