Andre Hector Caron C.M.- Ed.D. Harvard University
- Professor Emeritus at Université de Montréal
Andre Hector Caron C.M.
- Ed.D. Harvard University
- Professor Emeritus at Université de Montréal
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September 2003 - June 2011
June 1972 - present
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This qualitative study aimed to investigate the norms and daily practices around mobile and social technology by examining what happens when mobile phones and social media on any devices are removed from one’s daily life. Most studies on technology non-use focus on one device or plat-form. In this study, participants (N = 78) relinquished not only...
After decades of epistemological inquiry on the social construction of science, we have observed a renewed consensus on empiricism in application-oriented social sciences and a growing trust in evidence-based practice and decision-making. Drawing on the long-standing debate on value-ladenness, evidence and normativity in sciences, this article theo...
Abstract
After decades of epistemological inquiry on the social construction of science, we have observed a renewed consensus on empiricism in application-oriented social sciences and a growing trust in evidence-based practice and decision-making. Drawing on the long-standing debate on value-ladenness, evidence and normativity in sciences,
this art...
Throughout my career as an academic and researcher in the area of children and technologies I have witnessed in this ever-evolving landscape the use of many sci- entific perspectives in the quest to better understand the cultural creative and edu- cational implications of these technologies in the everyday lives of our children. After briefly descr...
Project Google Glass introduces augmented reality in our daily lives by integrating a connected microcomputer to users through a lens. This has generated a lot of attention from the media, much of it negative especially on the issue of privacy. By means of a standardized questionnaire, our research investigated aspects such as frequency and use of...
Project Google Glass introduces augmented reality in our daily lives by integrating a connected microcomputer to users through a lens. This has generated a lot of attention from the media, much of it negative, especially on the issue of privacy. By means of a standardized questionnaire, our research investigated aspects such as frequency and use of...
The rise of Mobile Devices (MD) in the last two decades is distinctive not only for the unprecedented rate at which they spread, but for the vast number of countries in which they were so quickly adopted, blind to their culture or economic stature. Moreover, the accelerated nature of their constantly evolving design and function adds further layers...
In modern society, promoting children’s well-being is a major concern for policy makers, educators, and health professionals. Media scholars share this concern and have been examining the influence of media on young people for many decades. Even in today’s multimedia environment, television still plays a significant role in the lives of children an...
The digital age has carried with it a tsunami of change. Children who have grown up with the delivery platforms that are a part of that change are now able to absorb more and more unregulated media on their own, often without any supervision. Bedroom computers, tablets, and smart phones provide private, individualized access to all kinds of content...
Résumé
Cet article soulève la question de l'écart grandissant entre les générations dites «éduquées technologiquement» et celles dites «technologiquement analphabètes». Il examine l'incidence, dans le cadre des jeux domestiques, de la nouvelle technologie interactive Vidéoway sur les amateurs de jeux vidéo que sont les jeunes et les autres membres...
Purpose ‐ The purpose of this paper is to investigate how business executives perceive and account for their use of paratextual cues as a means of managing their professional impressions in business e-mails on their smartphone (i.e. BlackBerry, iPhone, etc.) and office computer. Design/methodology/approach ‐ Semi-structured, audio-recorded telephon...
L’universitaire qui intervient dans les médias en tant qu’expert représente souvent un état de la «science» auprès du public. Or son travail est soumis à différentes normes, codes et responsabilités provenant tant de la société à laquelle il appartient que des institutions pour lesquelles il travaille. Il espère que ses découvertes recevront l’atte...
Télévision : chronique d’une mort annoncée…vraiment?
Étude sur les familles canadiennes et la télévision à l’ère numérique
Montréal, le 14 novembre 2012 – Non seulement la télévision n’est pas en voie de disparition, mais elle a un
impact social rassembleur sur la famille nucléaire d’un océan à l’autre. C’est la conclusion principale à laquelle
arr...
The disconnect in the appropriation of new technologies into the students' everyday life – A. Abstract Non c'è dubbio che gli studenti abbiano adottato con passione le nuove tecnologie all'interno della loro vita. Tuttavia, gli autori hanno voluto esplorare quali passi sa-rebbero necessari per garantire un utilizzo adeguato delle tecnologie in ambi...
Television: Chronicle of a Death Foretold?
Study of Canadian failies and television in the digital age
Montreal, November 14, 2012 - Not only is TV not endangered, but it also has a unifying social
impact on the nuclear family across the country. This is the main conclusion of a cross-Canada
study—Are the Kids All Right?—on the television viewing h...
Since 1987, Canada has defined a number of policies to regulate audiovisual cultural products. There are two major reasons for this set of regulations and self-regulations: the protection of children from potentially disturbing media content, and the need to have a system that supposedly mirrors Canadian values and Canada's self-representation as c...
Since 1987, Canada has defined a number of policies to regulate audiovisual cultural products.
There are two major reasons for this set of regulations and self-regulations: the protection of
children from potentially disturbing media content, and the need to have a system that supposedly
mirrors Canadian values and Canada’s self-representation as c...
Contemporary research on mobile learning focuses mainly on issues such as the acquisition of knowledge, the development of cognitive skills and the efficiency of these tools with respect to the achievement of specific educational goals.
Nonetheless, the consequences of the adoption of a technology within a learning context for educational purposes...
Très tôt dans l’histoire de la radiodiffusion canadienne, la nécessité d’encadrer les productions qui s’adressent à la jeunesse s’est imposée. Aujourd’hui, cette évidence est plus criante que jamais en raison de l’ubiquité des écrans dans le quotidien des enfants : il faut assurer la qualité des contenus qui leur sont destinés, et les protéger de c...
Executive Summary
For 35 years, the Alliance for Children and Television (ACT) has been monitoring the quality of Canadian children’s television and all screen‐based content and actively contributing to the vitality of the industry. The ACT also actively undertakes research projects to further understand children’s television and multi‐platform iss...
Divenuto onnipresente in meno di un decennio, grazie alle promesse di libertà e di contatto costante, il telefono cellulare ha trasformato radicalmente il modo di comunicare, e l’intero comportamento sociale, degli adolescenti.
Basandosi sulla trascrizione di vivaci conversazioni e scambi di messaggi, gli autori mostrano come i teenager abbiano add...
New information and communication technologies have become
extremely dynamic. They have permeated our everyday life in many
forms, and provide highly accessible, flexible, interchangeable
multimedia content, particularly via the Internet. While content
has been controlled and regulated, it is now much easier to access
freely, and increasingly indep...
Contemporary enthusiasm about emerging mobile learning technologies is deeply rooted in
what some scholars have described as the American common images or technology.
The growing adoption of mobile information technologies by educational institutions, and the proliferation of distance education and e-learning programs warrant a thorough investigation of the consequences of these phenomena. Contemporary research on mobile learning focuses mainly on issues such as the acquisition of knowledge, the development of c...
In Canada, children are solicited by a number of traditional and new media. In this new multimedia environment, one is tempted to mostly consider video games or Internet-related types of consumption. However, as previously mentioned, television viewing still remains a major activity in young Canadian children’s lives (18 hours per week), and theref...
La démarche de recherche que nous présentons ici a fait l’objet dès le début d’un
partenariat unique entre le Centre Interdisciplinaire des technologies émergentes (CITÉ) et
le Groupe de Recherche sur les Jeunes et les Médias (GRJM) de l’Université de Montréal,
la Société des Arts Technologiques (SAT) et le Centre des sciences de Montréal.
En effet...
New information and communications technologies have become extremely dynamic. While content in the past was more or less controlled and regulated, it is now more and more free to access, and increasingly independent of any formal institutional framework. Images on screens, which used to be viewed on different platforms in specific locations and at...
Contemporary claims for the adoption of mobile information and communication technologies as
learning & teaching devices are often based on two main theoretical perspectives: the socioconstructivist
model of the teaching& learning process and the continuity pattern in education. These two theoretical
approaches to education have constructed what ma...
Whether globalisation results in a "métissage" of cultures or the hegemony of one culture will depend on the analytical and social skills of those who make up our communities. The introduction of new technologies in education such as laptops, MP3s, and Ipods and the new concept of mobile learning require an examination of the teacher's role in faci...
New information and communications technologies have become extremely dynamic. While content in the past was more or less controlled and regulated, it is now more and more free to access, and increasingly independent of any formal institutional framework. Images on screens, which used to be viewed on different platforms in specific locations and at...
The interruption of personal interaction, even the most intimate, by a ringing cell phone has profoundly affected social behaviour. New communication technologies transform culture - but the reverse is also true. Moving Cultures explores the ways in which teenagers have creatively adopted cell phones and blackberries in their social and cultural li...
André Caron and Letizia Caronia look at teenagers' use of text messaging to chat, flirt, and gossip. They find that messaging among teens has little to do with sending shorthand information quickly. Instead, it is a verbal performance through which young people create culture. Moving Cultures argues that teenagers have domesticated and reinterprete...
[Français] La récente mise à disposition des étudiants de nouvelles technologies à des fins pédagogiques telles que la baladodiffusion dans plusieurs universités nord-américaines a souvent été faite rapidement, sans un suivi qui aide à comprendre les enjeux culturels et sociaux mobilisés. Porter une attention à ces dimensions sous l’angle particuli...
This paper presents the main results of an exploratory qualitative study on the functions and meanings of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in young people's everyday life. Specifically, this study concerns teenagers' cultural ways of interpreting the mobile phone and its uses, as they become part of their social world. Through their...
Des chercheurs d'horizons et de disciplines différents s'expriment et débattent de l'éducation aux médias en plaçant la problématique au cœur de ses enjeux sociaux et culturels : socialisation et cohésion sociale, élaboration d'une pensée critique, notions de contrôle et problèmes d'éthique, acculturation et question des savoirs… Cette question des...
Constructing a Specific Culture: Young People's Use of the Mobile Phone as a Social Performance
Abstract
This paper presents the main results of an exploratory qualitative study on the functions and meanings of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in young people's everyday life. Specifically, this study concerns teenagers' cultural w...
"Les membres de la famille et les technologies de communication sont comme les mots d'une phrase, liés à d'autres mots. Il n'y a pour les choses et les gens qu'une seule syntaxe et qu'une seule sémantique" (Latour, 1993)
This paper presents some reflections on the methodological issues raised by contemporary research on the appropriation and daily uses of communication and information technologies. The authors argue the need for links between theoretical frameworks, hypothesis and methodological tools, suggesting that methodological matters are never «pure» methodo...
Caron André H., Meunier Dominique, Baker Stéphanie. Des préoccupations actuelles et futures de la recherche au Canada. In: Les jeunes et les médias. Perspectives de la recherche dans le monde. Paris : L'Harmattan, 2002. pp. 165-178. (Débats Jeunesses, 9)
www.persee.fr/doc/debaj_1275-2193_2002_act_9_1_1117
En: Comunicar : revista científica iberoamericana de comunicación y educación Huelva 2002, n. 18; p. 15-19 Los autores del artículo, aun asumiendo las limitaciones de las herramientas metodológicas utilizadas en una investigación sobre nuevas tecnologías de la comunicación en el hogar, un estudio cualitativo sobre introducción y usos de los medios...
The purpose of this study was to focus on the subjective construction of the meaning people give to technologies and their uses within the family. The adoption and use of new communication technologies are interpreted as series of social actions undertaken by its members, under precise conditions, for specific motives. For this reason this research...
Pratique constitutive du quotidien familial, l'écoute de la télévision structure les dynamiques et l'organisation sociale qui caractérisent une famille et est structurée par elles. Loin de fonctionner d'une façon déterministe, ce rôle semble plutôt dépendre des significations et des fonctions attribuées par les différents membres à cette activité,...
The purpose of this article is to reflect upon the new media environment and specifically television and family behaviors. With today's important transformation of the home media environment, we propose to investigate family dynamics around television. We will, first, give an overall view of the media and technological environment present in Quebec...
1La question de l'impact potentiel des contenus télévisuels, et particulièrement des contenus violents, sur les jeunes téléspectateurs a fait l'objet de nombreuses recherches et de nombreux débats, que ce soit en Amérique du Nord ou en Europe. Ainsi, tel que repris dans un récent article du professeur Ronald Slaby de l'université de Harvard, on sai...
1La question de l'impact potentiel des contenus télévisuels, et particulièrement des contenus violents, sur les jeunes téléspectateurs a fait l'objet de nombreuses recherches et de nombreux débats, que ce soit en Amérique du Nord ou en Europe. Ainsi, tel que repris dans un récent article du professeur Ronald Slaby de l'université de Harvard, on sai...
Interactive television or TV-i, a component of Vidéoway technology, is a new genre of programming that allows the viewer to intervene directly in the content of a programme during the broadcast through a remote control device Four major types of interactive segments have been identified content preference (e g selecting a song), story involvement (...
Résumé / Abstract
La situation de la télévision canadienne reflète la présence de deux langues officielles, le français et l'anglais, et présente une dichotomie secteur public/secteur privé. En ce qui concerne les émissions pour enfants, si les offres des stations anglophones et francophones diffèrent peu en matière de genres et d'origines, les dif...
Thirteen eminent experts including, Elihu Katz, Les Brown, Bernard Myiet, Lawrence K. Grossman, and Pierre Juneau reflect on the challenges state owned, public and private television face in an ever increasing globalization context.
Relevant reference "Drawing conclusions from new media research: Reflections and puzzles regarding children's experience of the Internet
S Livingstone - The information society, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
… is needed, placing increasing and often unexpected demands on families (Caron, Giroux, &
Douzou … and community participation are conducted within...
This report describes the results of a study undertaken in
1983 by the Department of Communications at the University of
Montreal. The purpose of this research was to analyze the dynamics
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ABSTRACT
In the last decade, prospective analyses on the impact of techno logical innovations have been plentiful. One must differentiate, how ever, scientific forecasts from the more fantasy oriented predictions that simply reiterate popular 'clichés' about technology, as we have seen for example in the case of the micro-computer. Taking as a ba...
This article presents the results of a content analysis of the late evening television news during the last days of the 1980 Quebec referendum campaign. The analysis seeks to relate the differences in the political imageries broadcast by the four networks studied: SRC, CBC, TVA and CTV. Previous studies, conducted during periods of political activi...
Jacques Durand, Les formes de la communication [THE FORMS OF COMMUNICATION] (Paris: Dunod, 1981, 215 pp.)
This article examines the effects of Anglophone Canadian and American mass media on 814 Francophone Canadian adults' political and cultural knowledge and attitude levels. Random samples from a community with only Francophone television and a matched one with Francophone, Anglophone Canadian, and American television were employed. Use of all Angloph...
This paper reports mass media, interpersonal communication, and socio-linguistic background influences on selected political and cultural attitude, agendas, and information levels. Three hypotheses were tested using data from two cross cultural settings.
Findings differed greatly in the two settings. Generally, social background was a more frequent...
The purpose of this article consists in studying comparatively the viewing of television in seven countries :Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, France,Hungary, Italy and Japan. in the course of 1979, during three weeks at the peak hours 6 p.m. to 12 p.m.. The main conclusion of this study, likely to get further developments consists in pointing out the fai...
Études de Radiodiffusion belge #27, 1980
The purpose of this research was to investigate the effects of first time exposure to television on Inuit (Eskimo) children's (8-13-year-old) cultural "images" of their own and other cultural groups. A pretest and posttest design was used. The specific series chosen for the experiment were both pro-social in nature, with one portraying cultural gro...
Content Analysis of English-and French-Language Television
Thesis (Ed. D.)--Harvard Graduate School of Education. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 211-213).
