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The article focuses on media convergence, its empirical emergence and scientific challenges. Drawing on a major, European comparative study of juvenile media culture, it is a main argument of the article that in empirical terms media convergence serves to increase the complexities of media culture, while in theoretical terms media convergence enforces and enhances increased focus on media contents and uses. The author proposes that the challenges of media convergence is most fruitfully met by a convergent research approach. This approach, in turn, necessitates an integration of ict and media studies, a systematic collaboration between the arts, social and natural sciences, as well as sustained collaboration between basic and applied forms of research.
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Cet article analyse l’émergence observée de signes de convergence au sein des médias et les défis scientifiques qu’elle engendre. A partir d’une grande étude comparative sur la culture des jeunes Européens en termes de médias, l’article s’articule sur deux plans principaux. Au plan empirique, les convergences observées permettent d’insister sur la complexité de la culture des médias, alors qu’au plan théorique, elles valident et valorisent l’analyse plus poussée des contenus et des pratiques de ces médias. L’auteur suggère qu ’une approche comparative est la plus à même de nous faire comprendre les défis de ces convergences. Cette approche rend indispensable l’association des recherches sur les médias et celles s’intéressant aux tic, une collaboration systématique entre les lettres, les sciences et les sciences sociales ainsi qu ’une coopération étroite entre recherches théoriques et appliquées.
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Drotner, K. New media, new paradigms? A comparative European perspective. Ann. Télécommun. 57, 238–245 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02994636
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