25 research outputs found
Money for writing: Screenplay development and screenwriters earnings in French cinema
The funds allocated to developing screenplays currently constitute on average 2 to 3% of the overall budget of a film in France. Producers are more than ever dependent on presenting attractive draft screenplays to find their financial partners. As a result, screenwriters undoubtedly are active economic partners of production planning, but they do not seem to receive much professional recognition for this vital role. Moreover, their earnings often fail to reflect the amount of work produced and do not reward adequately the risks taken, including the possibility that production could stop after the screenplay is written. This article investigates the place of screenplay development within the economics of French cinema. Using recently published official reports and interviews, the author identifies different types of screenwriters â freestanding screenwriters, writing teams and screenwriters co-writing with the director â and addresses their working conditions. She surveys some of the contract modalities for the remuneration of professional screenwriters. Finally, she reviews the proposals made by different professional bodies to improve the remuneration of screenwriters and reform the financing of screenwriting
Ă vos marques, prĂȘts, partez ! Les dĂ©fis et les opportunitĂ©s du marchĂ© de lâemploi universitaire contemporain
Ă la suite de la tenue de lâatelier intitulĂ© « Quâarrive-t-il aprĂšs le doctorat ? DĂ©fis, pratiques et stratĂ©gies pour affronter lââaprĂšs-thĂšseâ » qui a Ă©tĂ© organisĂ© par la professeure Sule Tomkinson dans le cadre du 55e CongrĂšs de la SociĂ©tĂ© quĂ©bĂ©coise de science politique et 7e CongrĂšs international des associations francophones de science politique, cet article sâintĂ©resse aux dĂ©fis et aux possibilitĂ©s qui se prĂ©sentent pour un grand nombre de doctorants dĂ©sireux de dĂ©crocher un poste de professeur menant Ă la permanence et entreprendre une carriĂšre dans le monde universitaire. De maniĂšre plus spĂ©cifique, cet article propose une sĂ©rie de stratĂ©gies permettant aux candidats Ă un poste de professeur menant Ă la permanence de mieux se positionner dans le cadre de leurs Ă©tudes doctorales et de leur recherche dâemploi.Following the French-language workshop titled âQuâarrive-t-il aprĂšs le doctorat? DĂ©fis, pratiques et stratĂ©gies pour affronter lââaprĂšs-thĂšseââ organized during the 55e CongrĂšs de la SociĂ©tĂ© quĂ©bĂ©coise de science politique and the 7e CongrĂšs international des associations francophones de science politique by Professor Sule Tomkinson, this paper unpacks the challenges and opportunities for doctoral students wanting to secure a tenure-track professor job and begin a career in higher education. Specifically, it offers a series of tactics enabling students to position themselves strategically as they complete their doctoral studies and prepare to enter the academic job market
Tweet, Click, Vote: Twitter and the 2010 Ottawa Municipal Election
In Canada, Twitter still played a mostly peripheral role in political communication, mobilization, and organizing in 2010. This study provides a snapshot in time of how Twitter was redefining local political campaigns before social media become ubiquitous in electioneering. Focusing on the 2010 municipal elections in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (the nationâs capital), this study considers how and to what extent social networking platforms help shape the dynamics of local electioneering; it maps the ways in which Twitter was used by the Ottawa-Carleton district school board, the Ottawa catholic school board, the Eastern Ontario French-language public school board, and ward and mayoral candidates for voter outreach; it also identifies what were then novel ways in which voters creatively used Twitter to participate independently in the electoral process and to attempt to influence its outcome. Finally, it discusses how traditional news organizations experimented with social media in covering elections and engaging with audiences and voters
Les groupes minoritaires et/ou marginalisĂ©s Ă lâĂšre numĂ©rique. Introduction
Les dynamiques de communication et dâengagement politique Ă lâĂ©chelle internationale tĂ©moignent dâune sĂ©rie de transformations notamment liĂ©es au dĂ©veloppement des technologies numĂ©riques au cours de la derniĂšre dĂ©cennie. La montĂ©e en puissance du populisme comme forme dâexpression politique (Boulin et Levy, 2018 ; De Vreese et al., 2018 ; Salgado et Sravakakis, 2019) ainsi que la personnalisation, la diversification et la fragmentation des modes et des grammaires dâengagement politique (BrĂŒk..
Politique PQ 2.0 : qui sont les blogueurs politiques québécois ?
Lâarticle prĂ©sente les rĂ©sultats du premier sondage menĂ© auprĂšs de participants de la blogosphĂšre politique quĂ©bĂ©coise. Les donnĂ©es tirĂ©es de lâenquĂȘte permettent de tracer le profil sociopolitique des blogueurs politiques quĂ©bĂ©cois, dâidentifier leurs habitudes « bloguistiques », leurs visions de la dĂ©mocratie et les motivations qui les guident dans leur activitĂ© de rĂ©daction en ligne. Les conclusions indiquent que, dâun point de vue politique, les blogueurs quĂ©bĂ©cois se dĂ©marquent de lâensemble nord-amĂ©ricain mais Ă©galement de la sociĂ©tĂ© quĂ©bĂ©coise en gĂ©nĂ©ral. Ce double constat dâune blogosphĂšre politique quĂ©bĂ©coise « distincte » sâexplique en majeure partie par le statut minoritaire de la nation quĂ©bĂ©coise.Based on data collected through an online survey conducted in April 2008, this paper proposes the first detailed sociopolitical profile of political bloggers in Quebec. Specifically, the research provides a detailed assessment of Quebec bloggersâ motivations to blog, their political involvement in online content dispersion and social networks as well as their participation in offline formal and informal political and civic activities. This description helps to better understand the specificities of an emergent and ever-growing community of politically active citizens. Additionally, the research draws contrasts with previous studies of the U.S. political blogosphere and indicates that Quebecâs blogosphere represents a âdistinct societyâ in the North American context due to its minority status on the continent
#La Résistance franco-ontarienne : le rÎle des médias socionumériques
Cet article porte sur le rĂŽle des mĂ©dias socionumĂ©riques dans la lutte opposant la minoritĂ© franco-ontarienne, ainsi que ses alliĂ©s, et le gouvernement ontarien de Doug Ford en 2018. Nous avons analysĂ© quantitativement et qualitativement le contenu des pages Facebook et des fils Twitter des acteurs et institutions concernĂ©s. Nous avons aussi animĂ© seize entretiens avec des acteurs engagĂ©s dans ce conflit : des reprĂ©sentants des associations franco-ontariennes, des Ă©lus et des reprĂ©sentants de lâUniversitĂ© de lâOntario français. Nos analyses rĂ©vĂšlent que les mĂ©dias socionumĂ©riques ont jouĂ© un rĂŽle de premier plan sur plusieurs fronts. Entre autres, ils ont permis aux citoyens dâexercer rapidement de la pression sur les associations franco-ontariennes et sur les Ă©lus en favorisant la diffusion et le partage de messages significatifs pour sensibiliser et mobiliser la communautĂ©. Cet article sâinsĂšre dans un courant dâĂ©tudes au Canada et Ă lâinternational sâintĂ©ressant Ă lâusage des mĂ©dias socionumĂ©riques par les membres de communautĂ©s minoritaires et/ou marginalisĂ©es pour des fins de communication et dâengagement politique