Salons https://salons.erudit.org/en Perspectives on society through scholarly journals Thu, 17 May 2018 15:39:20 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 https://salons.erudit.org/app/uploads/sites/3/2017/06/cropped-favicon-32x32.png Salons https://salons.erudit.org/en 32 32 Wikipedia’s Pedagogical Interest https://salons.erudit.org/en/2018/03/06/wikipedias-pedagogical-interest/ Tue, 06 Mar 2018 20:51:41 +0000 http://salons.erudit.org/en/?p=745 Continued]]> You are a researcher and an active member of the Wiki community. How did this commitment come about? My involvement in Wikipedia projects began during a research project. As part of my doctorate, I worked on the digitization of photographic archives, their circulation and how they were used after upload. I became interested in partnerships between the Wikimedia community and official institutions...

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]]> Playing Outside https://salons.erudit.org/en/2017/12/19/playing-outside/ Tue, 19 Dec 2017 19:24:17 +0000 http://salons.erudit.org/en/?p=709 Continued]]> Before going outside to play, dress warmly in the “Canadian” style with elegant French Regime era leggings, bonnets and jackets [1]1Cap-aux-DiamantsS’habiller à la canadienne1991. Or, dress as “the people of the North”, with a choice of international fibers – “English and Shetland woolens and Finnish cashmeres and duvets” – dictated by “our taste for fashion and...

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]]> Celebrate https://salons.erudit.org/en/2017/12/19/feter/ Tue, 19 Dec 2017 18:52:19 +0000 http://salons.erudit.org/en/?p=682 Continued]]> Short days, long winters, terribly cold. Canada is “more rigorous than Siberia“, the geographer’s polar values do not lie [1]1Cahiers de géographie du QuébecLe Nord et l'hiver dans l'hémisphère boréal2000. Neither does Gilles Vigneault’s poetry. Ma maison ce n’est pas ma maison c’est froidure Mon pays ce n’est pas un pays c’est l’hiver My house is not my...

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]]> CuiZine: A journal that brings Canadian food cultures to the table https://salons.erudit.org/en/2017/12/14/cuizine-a-journal-that-brings-canadian-food-cultures-to-the-table/ Thu, 14 Dec 2017 21:17:46 +0000 http://salons.erudit.org/en/?p=676 Continued]]> A scholarly journal devoted to cuisine is uncommon, but a “journal of culinary cultures in Canada” actually seems quite bold. How did such an idea come to fruition? In the early 2000s, there was increased interest in cooking and culinary trends. This interest was evident in the success of television networks like Food Network Canada and in the mainstream popularity of programs such...

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]]> Recherches féministes Journal: Thinking and Acting The Feminism https://salons.erudit.org/en/2017/10/30/recherches-feministes-journal/ Mon, 30 Oct 2017 18:51:44 +0000 http://salons.erudit.org/en/?p=617 Continued]]> Can you tell us about the context in which Recherches féministes emerged? Starting a new periodical, establishing its credibility and then ensuring its financial survival and above all its scientific legitimacy was not an easy task. All the more so given that at the end of the 1980s feminism was, and still is, often perceived as an exclusively political movement situated on the margins of science.

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]]> The Digital Era and the Scholarly Publishing: Some Transformations and Possible Futures https://salons.erudit.org/en/2017/10/24/the-digital-era-and-the-scholarly-publishing/ Tue, 24 Oct 2017 20:15:26 +0000 http://salons.erudit.org/en/?p=600 Continued]]> 1. The diversification of publication sites One of the earliest effects of the transition to digital publication has been the diversification of publication sites. Increasingly, the best articles are published outside of high-impact journals. The reason for this is simple: researchers now find their secondary sources not in the small number of (printed) journals, but in a much greater pool...

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]]> Quebec Women in IT: Is the Situation Different? https://salons.erudit.org/en/2017/10/23/quebec-women-in-it/ Mon, 23 Oct 2017 20:45:27 +0000 http://salons.erudit.org/en/?p=585 Continued]]> I’ve been told that when the tech industry started growing, employment scholars were optimistic that this new sector would be free from gender stereotypes and occupational segregation because it had no historically-rooted “justifications” like physical strength or competencies in care for them. This optimism, however, did not last as numerous studies have shown that women face particular obstacles...

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]]> Lien social et Politiques: Freedom From Paper and Paid Access https://salons.erudit.org/en/2017/10/20/lien-social-et-politiques-freedom-from-paper-and-paid-access/ Fri, 20 Oct 2017 15:24:32 +0000 http://salons.erudit.org/en/?p=555 Continued]]> Can you explain what motivated the journal to move to open access? Lien social et Politiques (LSP) had long been published only in print format. Copies were mailed to subscribers and made available in bookstores in Quebec and France. A major change occurred in 2002 when the journal first began publishing in digital format on the Érudit platform. Subscribers had access to the latest issues—and...

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]]> Criminologie: Open Access For More Effective Outreach https://salons.erudit.org/en/2017/10/20/criminologie-open-access-for-more-effective-outreach/ Fri, 20 Oct 2017 15:04:16 +0000 http://salons.erudit.org/en/?p=552 Continued]]> Can you explain what prompted the journal to move to open access? There were several factors behind this change. First, many of our readers come from practice environments (police, community organizations, etc.) and therefore did not have a subscription enabling them to consult our most recent issues even though our issues and our themes are designed in function of this readership. Secondly, the...

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]]> Immediate Open Access and Delayed Open Access: Impact on Article Downloads https://salons.erudit.org/en/2017/10/19/immediate-open-access-and-delayed-open-access/ Thu, 19 Oct 2017 18:35:12 +0000 http://salons.erudit.org/en/?p=533 Continued]]> To conduct this study, we analyzed slightly more than 1,100,000 downloads for the period 2011-2015, including 475,000 from Canada and 625,000 from abroad. These downloads were examined separately in order to focus more clearly on the effect of subscriptions which are mostly Canadian. By “download”, we mean the online consultation of the full text of a document in PDF or HTML format. Érudit makes...

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]]> Filling the Digital Gap: A Step to Bridge the Gender Divide https://salons.erudit.org/en/2017/10/04/filling-the-digital-gap/ Wed, 04 Oct 2017 21:08:07 +0000 http://salons.erudit.org/en/?p=487 Continued]]> Women pioneered the earliest discoveries in computing as far back as the 1800’s and have been instrumental in many more recent advancements in computing. (Think: helping to send humans to the moon, wireless technology and lots of computer software that powers our daily lives!) Despite being early leaders in the field of computing—and developers of the technology upon which many of our modern...

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]]> The Boys’ Club or how the power belongs to men together https://salons.erudit.org/en/2017/10/04/the-boys-club/ Wed, 04 Oct 2017 17:31:31 +0000 http://salons.erudit.org/en/?p=477 Continued]]> The Boys’ Club is not only a place or a structure occupied by men: it is the means by which masculinity becomes a gendered sex which is not really a gender because it represents the entire world. The Boys’ Club renders man (white, heterosexual and middle-class) the representative of the neutral and the universal. It makes the masculine dominate the feminine, the white the racialized, the rich the...

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