Communication, Culture & Languages

The Media and Responsible Engagement group is interested in the ways in which media (understood in the broad sense of connection or relationship) produce engagement, i.e. the mobilization and orientation of social actors in a more or less sustainable way. It pays particular attention to the media systems that enable or, on the contrary, prevent stakeholders from addressing the question of the ethical or responsible character of their engagement. Members of the group thus explore phenomena as diverse as disinformation, journalistic ethics, conspiracy theories, (non-)violent communication, dark advertising, and implicit marketing.

The Design & Fiction group is interested in what fiction does: to a brand, to information, to a course, to a scientific article, to an organization. Here, fiction is juxtaposed with debate: what kind of discussion produces fiction? How does it affect the participants? How far can fiction go: dystopia, fake news, illusion and fantasy?

From there, it's the object of the debate that is questioned through experimentation. The members of the Axis are thus involved in the design of a fictional apparatus, the Factory, in order to assess what, in its materiality, does or does not stimulate debate, change of opinion, or even engagement in individual and/or collective action within this framework.

To build this object, several meetings are planned: with authors and designers, with students, with researchers, and of course with the public.

The aesthetic dimension of organizations and the mobilization of creativity have recently gained momentum in academic research.
At the intersection of the arts, management sciences, and communication studies, the Art, Aesthetics, and Organizations group explores cross-disciplinary research objects oriented toward the study of artistic and creative organizations and, concomitantly, the study of the aesthetic dimension of organizations.
The group's research questions the place and role of art and the artist in organizations, but also in education. They are investigating the forms of entrepreneurship and business models best suited to artistic and creative organizations, as well as arts-based forms of management. Finally, they consider how the passage through artistic forms influences the design of new products, services, and experiences.
The research methods used by the team members are essentially qualitative and largely borrowed from the social sciences.

In the context of globalized issues of ecological and social transition, the members of this thematic unit observe and analyze the processes of writing and circulation of public policies from a communicative and critical perspective, from two main fields: culture (including communication, data and NTICs) and economy (mainly entrepreneurship and social and solidarity economy).
It focuses on the media and technological systems that support the writing and circulation of public policies, the knowledge and discourses mobilized, their concrete arrangements and the sociological dimensions that support them, the members:

• Observe the institutional moments of this writing
• Analyze the practices and discourses of institutions (ministries, international organizations, etc..) and instituting actors (NGOs, social movements, foundations, media, individuals, etc.) in the public space to initiate new policies; discuss, act on public policies; renew those already written, imagine and propose alternatives, adapt to these policies
• Track the circulation of policies and their writing in an internationalized space