Table Of ContentMediation
Concepts to Conceive 21st Century Society Set
coordinated by
Valérie Larroche and Olivier Dupont
Volume 1
Mediation
A Concept for Information and
Communication Sciences
Jacqueline Deschamps
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Contents
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii
Part 1. Epistemological Foundations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Introduction to Part 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Chapter 1. Exploring the Concept . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.1. A conceptual approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
1.2. The origins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
1.3. Professional mediation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
1.4. Mediation and peace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Chapter 2. The Constituent Elements of Mediation . . . . . . . 17
2.1. The third party . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
2.1.1. From the word to the concept . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
2.1.2. Models and functions of the third party . . . . . . . . 19
2.1.3. The power and authority of a third party . . . . . . . 22
2.1.4. The symbolic third party . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
2.2. Relation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
2.2.1. A concept present in numerous fields . . . . . . . . . . 27
2.2.2. Relation as a process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
2.2.3. Interactivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
2.2.4. The socioeconomics of relation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
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2.3. The subject . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
2.3.1. The subject in philosophy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
2.3.2. The subject in psychoanalysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
2.3.3. The subject in mediation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Chapter 3. The Organization of Mediations . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
3.1. Mediation and institution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
3.1.1. The spirit of institution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
3.1.2. A historical approach to institutions . . . . . . . . . . 46
3.1.3. The human and the institutional spheres . . . . . . 49
3.1.4. Parliamentary mediation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
3.2. Dispositive and mediation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
3.2.1. Dispositives in mediation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
3.2.2. The social dispositive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
3.2.3. Technological dispositives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
3.2.4. Legitimizing a dispositive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Chapter 4. Time and Mediation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
4.1. The time of mediations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
4.1.1. Synchronous and asynchronous mediations . . . . . 59
4.1.2. Diachronic mediation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
4.2. Timeless mediation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Part 2. Mobilizing the Concept of Mediation in
Information and Communication Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Introduction to Part 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Chapter 5. Communicational Mediations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
5.1. Transmitting and accessing knowledge . . . . . . . . . . 75
5.2. Scientific communication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
5.3. Digital mediations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
5.3.1. Information accessibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
5.3.2. The digital mediation of our heritage . . . . . . . . . 85
5.3.3. The digital mediation of libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
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Chapter 6. Informational Mediations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
6.1. Information professionals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
6.2. Documentary mediation in academia . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
6.3. Competitive intelligence and mediation . . . . . . . . . . 95
6.4. Strategic foresight and mediation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Chapter 7. Cultural Mediations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
7.1. Mediation and cultural institutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
7.2. Promoting our heritage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
7.3. Artistic mediation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Chapter 8. Organizational Mediations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
8.1. Organizational theories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
8.2. Organizations and communication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
8.3. Other perspectives in organizational communication . . 118
Chapter 9. Societal Mediations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
9.1. Political mediation and the public space . . . . . . . . . . 122
9.2. Public communication and citizenship . . . . . . . . . . . 127
9.3. Ecological mediation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Index of Cited Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Index of Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
