Exploring adolescents’ critical thinking aptitudes when reading about science in the news

This research studies the critical thinking skills of six teenagers in their final years of high school. It looks at the way those students use a set of cognitive skills in order to analyze scientific and pseudoscientific information available in online news articles. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with six students chosen according to their results in a questionnaire about interest in science topics. Results show a large gap between participants’ use of critical thinking skills. Most of these skills were mainly used for text comprehension, evoking general knowledge, numeracy, arguments assessment and production, and life skills (open-mindedness and metacognition). The participants were often confused when they were asked to justify their stances, and when they had to compare arguments’ value. This exploratory study could lead to a better understanding of teenagers’ strengths and weaknesses in news media literacy, and the part that schools could play in helping students develop them

Les journalistes, des super citoyens qui s’abstiennent ?

Comment adapter l’éthique journalistique aux réseaux sociaux ? Comment respecter son devoir de réserve sur les réseaux sociaux ? Faut-il respecter ce devoir de réserve même sur les réseaux sociaux ? Quelle transparence les journalistes doivent afficher sur les réseaux sociaux ? Cet article suggère des pistes de réflexion.How can journalistic ethics be adapted to social networks ? How does one fulfil the duty to exercise discretion on social networks ? Does this duty even have to be fulfilled on social networks ? How transparent must journalists be on social networks ? This article suggests a few avenues for reflection

Maintaining the Boundaries: The Interpretative Repertoires Journalists Use to Differentiate Themselves from the Public Relations Industry

Journalists make use of a number of interpretative repertoires to describe their relationship to the PR industry. Among these : they tap into the institutional discourses of both their own field and that of their PR counterparts ; they dip in and out of the deontological code of the journalistic profession ; they exploit a repertoire that we refer to here as «realist» discourse. That journalists can touch upon a range of repertoires within a single sentence points to the complexities that lie at the heart of this relationship. It also speaks to the way that journalists manage to distinguish themselves from PR professionals while at the same time, collaborating with them. These are among the findings to emerge from interviews conducted with twenty journalists working the daily beat in Montreal

Les pratiques et les discours des relationnistes média au Québec : dans les marges de la transparence, la rigueur, la diligence et l’équité

Interviews with media relations officers in Quebec reveal the extent to which they must constantly reconcile their profession’s core values (transparency, rigour, due diligence and fairness) with institutional and organizational demands. Across the board, the aim of media relations officers is to provide journalists with information that is timely and accurate. However, they find themselves juggling tight deadlines, questions of access and the expectation that they are there to serve their clients’ best interests. Compromises must be made and professional standards sometimes slip. The risk, here, is that PR’s core values end up being paid mere lip service : ceasing to be actual rules of conduct and becoming, more, a conduit for pro-public relations advocacy

L’écriture sonore

La tâche de raconter une histoire vraie, prenante, interpellante à la radio ou dans un balado, dont l’auditoire émerge transformé, touché, instruit, exige de creuser plusieurs sillons sonores à la fois. Le présent article s’intéresse au matériau brut de l’écriture sonore et aux visées de l’écriture sonore. L’article définit d’abord l’écriture sonore de façon sommaire pour ensuite scruter les expériences de chercheurs et créateurs sonores pour amplifier la définition d’écriture sonore et exposer ses caractéristiques. Après avoir examiné la façon dont le corps est mobilisé dans l’écriture sonore suivra alors une discussion sur la puissance de l’écriture sonore.Using the radio or a podcast to tell a story that is captivating and true and that transforms, touches, and educates the listener involves working with multiple levels of sound at the same time. This article looks at the objectives of audio writing and the raw materials involved. A brief definition of audio writing is followed by an in-depth look at the work of audio researchers and creators with a view to expanding the definition and shedding light on the characteristics of audio writing. After exploring how the body moves in audio writing, the article discusses the power of the medium.La tarea de narrar una historia verdadera, apasionante, cautivadora en la radio o en un podcast, cuyo auditorio surge transformado, conmovido, instruido, exige profundizar varios fragmentos sonoros a la vez. El artículo se focaliza en el material bruto de la escritura sonora y en sus objetivos. En primer lugar, el artículo define la escritura sonora de manera somera para después escudriñar las experiencias de los investigadores y creadores sonoros con el fin de ampliar la definición de escritura sonora y explicar sus características. Después de haber analizado la manera en que el cuerpo es movilizado en la escritura sonora, seguirá un intercambio sobre el potencial de la escritura sonora

Convergence : comment le travail des journalistes gravite autour des professionnels de la communication

Interviews conducted with 20 journalists suggest that journalists feel they have limited room for maneuver in their day-to-day dealings with the Public Relations (PR) profession. A discourse analysis reveals three levels of interaction between journalists and PR professionals where journalistic autonomy is compromised. In the first, mechanisms put in place by PR professionals create a situation where journalists are forced to depend upon them when putting together a news story. In the second, ethical obligations and production demands imposed by the journalistic profession itself encourages a reliance on PR professionals. In the third, journalists and PR professionals find themselves working as a team. In all three of these spaces, the choices facing journalists are limited. What this description of their day-to-day exchanges brings to light are the actual workings of convergence between the two professions. Moreover, it offers an explanation as to why PR content features so prominently in today’s news stories

Les dynamiques entre journalistes et relationnistes : texte introductif

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Donner priorité aux données : adopter l’induction au cours d’une recherche sur les relations publiques et le journalisme

Cet article expose le parcours d’une équipe dont le projet de recherche s’est développé d’une manière inattendue. Amorcé dans une épistémologie positiviste et dans un paradigme hypothéticodéductif, le projet a dû être redéployé. Le design de recherche et les méthodes de collecte de données suscitaient plus de questions qu’ils n’apportaient de réponses. Posant un regard critique sur le processus, nous réalisons que les décisions jalonnant la démarche s’inscrivent dans une démarche inductive. L’article décrit l’évolution intuitive d’une recherche où les préconceptions de ce qu’est une excellente méthodologie sont chamboulées pour finalement reconnaître la valeur et le rôle des données en tant que guides pour l’exploration d’objets de recherche