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A vivid illustration of the successes of U.S.–Soviet diplomacy during the period of allied relations was the magazine Amerika, published in the United States in Russian and distributed in the USSR. The magazine was intended to inform Soviet citizens about real American life, familiarize them with the achievements of the United States in science and culture. It was important to present American literature on the pages of the magazine: authors new to Soviet readers and stories by well-known writers translated into Russian for the first time. The article concludes that, along with the rest of the magazine's content, its literary section sought to demonstrate American prosperity and emphasize the closeness of American and Russian cultures. After the war, however, relations between the two countries went into decline again. The USSR continued to translate, censor, and distribute Amerika, but at the same time launched a campaign against the magazine in the Soviet press. In 1952, the symbol of US — Soviet alliance of 1941–1945 ceased to exist. The canceled project was restarted however four years later. The history of the magazine is reconstructed on the basis of Soviet press and archival materials, including transcripts of conversations, Agitprop reports, correspondence between the U.S. Ambassador to the USSR W.A. Harriman and V.M. Molotov, the First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR A.A. Gromyko and the U.S. Charge d'Affaires in the USSR W. Barbour.

Demokrat Parti muhalefette olduğu yıllarda demokratikleşme vaatleri ve basının sorunlarını gidereceği söylemleriyle geniş kesimlerin desteğini almıştır. Ancak iktidara geldikten sonra icraatlarının eleştirilmeye başlanması, basınla olan iyi ilişkilerinin bozulmasına neden olmuştur. 27 Mayıs 1960’da gerçekleşen Askeri Müdahale genel olarak basın tarafından olumlu karşılanmıştır. Bu süreçte DP yanlısı basın organlarının bir kısmı MBK’nın faaliyetleri karşısında sessiz kalırken, ulusal basının önemli bir bölümü ise MBK’ya destek veren bir yayın politikası izlemiştir. Ulusal basının takındığı tutumun yerel basında da benzer şekilde tezahür ettiği görülmektedir. Askeri Müdahalenin gerçekleştiği 1960 yılına girilirken Tokat’ta yayınlanmakta olan iki gazete bulunmaktadır. Bunlardan Tokat Sesi gazetesi iktidarı destekleyen bir tutuma sahipken Tokat gazetesi ise yerelde basın alanında muhalefetin temsilcisi olarak karşımıza çıkmaktadır. Askeri Müdahale öncesinde DP’yi destekleyen Tokat Sesi gazetesi müdahale sonrasında MBK lehinde ve DP aleyhinde haberleri sütunlarına taşımıştır. Bu yönüyle müdahale sonrası Tokat Sesi ve Tokat gazetelerinin yayın politikasında ortak bir paydada buluştukları söylenebilir. Bu çalışma 1960 yılında Anadolu’nun orta büyüklükteki bir vilayet merkezinde yerel basının 27 Mayıs Askeri Müdahalesi öncesi ve sonrasındaki yayın politikalarının karşılaştırılması suretiyle nasıl bir değişim ve dönüşüm içerisine girdiklerini ortaya koymak amacıyla hazırlanmıştır.

Türkiye, tüm dünyayı geniş ölçüde etkileyen II. Dünya Savaşı’na fiili olarak katılmasa da savaştan siyasi, sosyal ve ekonomik olarak etkilenmiştir. Savaş koşulları nedeniyle yeterli ihracat yapılmaması ve yurtiçi üretim değerlerindeki düşüş büyük şehirlerde iaşe sorununu doğurmuştur. Devletin mevcut zorlu şartların altından kalkabilmek için vergilere başvurmuştur. Savaş sürecinde halktan Millî Korunma Yasası, Toprak Mahsulleri Vergisi, Yol Vergisi, Varlık Vergisi gibi farklı isimlerde vergiler talep edilmiştir. Ancak bunların içinde en çok dikkat çeken Varlık Vergisi olmuştur. Savaş esnasında yüksek miktarda servet elde eden zengin kesimin mükellef olduğu Varlık Vergisi 16 ay gibi kısa bir süre uygulanmasına rağmen etkisini uzun yıllar devam ettirmiştir. Öyle ki vergi mükelleflerinin çoğunlukla gayrimüslimlerden oluşması dünya kamuoyunun dikkatini çekmiştir. Bu bağlamda İngiliz basınında oldukça etkili bir yere sahip olan The Times gazetesi de Varlık Vergisini köşesine taşımıştır. The Times’da verginin teoride makul olduğu kabul edilirken uygulamadaki aksaklıklara değinilmiştir. Türkiye’de yaşayan İngiliz vatandaşlarının vergi karşısındaki durumunun ne olacağı irdelenmiştir.

The aim of the paper was to introduce the specialized press oriented towards jazz music and its practitioners that was published from 1953 to 1965 on the territory of the Republic of Serbia. The marked period was chosen for consideration since it represents the most fruitful stage in the development of the press of a specific thematic profile, but also because of the significant changes in the entire Yugoslav society. These changes, as it was possible to show, influenced the complex processes that shaped the press of the time, as well as the attitude towards this musical genre and its practitioners. The processes in question include, first of all: certain internal political movements that consistently modeled the cultural policy of the time, within which jazz attempted to obtain a favorable position; integration of the former socialist state into polarized international currents that implied the use of jazz as a means of affirming the foreign policy orientation of Yugoslav society; and the creation of the operational power of artists for self-organization and the acquisition of certain labor and social rights within the Association of Jazz Musicians. The association was founded in 1953 in Belgrade with the aim of advocating for the rights of contemporary musicians, while at the same time initiating the publication of the first newspaper Jazz: Journal of Popular and Jazz Music (Jazz. List za pitanja zabavne i džez muzike). Under this name, the journal was published from 1953 to 1954, and during the publication period from 1957 to 1958 it changed its name to Bulletin of the Association of Jazz Musicians (Bilten Udruženja Jazz muzičara). After that, in Novi Sad, in 1962, Rhythm – Yugoslav Review of Jazz and Popular Music (Ritam – Jugoslovenska revija za džez i zabavnu muziku) began to be publish by NIP Dnevnik, and later changed its name to Rhythm – Yugoslav Review of Popular Music (Ritam – Jugoslovenska revija za zabavnu muziku), under which it continued to be published until it ceased publication in 1965.

This article deals with the history of the international workers’ games ("International Workers’ Olympiads" and "Spartakiads"), set up during the Interwar period by the Socialist Workers’ Sport International and the Red Sport International in order to counter the growing hegemony of the Olympic Games. These workers’ sporting events were an undeniable success, despite the hostility of the authorities and the reluctance of the main newspapers (specialized in sport or not) to inform their readers about them. The international workers’ sport federations firstly used these games to promote an alternative sport culture, focused on mass practice and international fraternity. Then, these workers’ organizations became defenders of an Olympic ideal since they considered that it had gone astray. Both evolutions in the Olympic Games criticism and in the workers’ events celebration in the socialist and communist press is linked to this shift.

In this interview, contemporary Armenian writer Krikor Beledian reflects on the phenomenon of neologisms cultivated within the press both before and after the genocide. Framing neologisms as a general feature of linguistic innovation, Beledian offers an overview of how the Armenian language’s contact with other languages over the centuries has occasioned the creation of new words and expressions, culminating in heightened activity during the language’s standardization process in the 19th century, facilitated in large part by the press. While these efforts of coining new terms were a linguistic enterprise that mainly circulated within intellectual circles prior to 1915, following the genocide, neologisms gained expanded meaning and reached the masses. In dispersion, within a new preservationist drive, linguistic creation was often linked to survival and maintenance of collective identity in exile. In France, the Armenian-language press, particularly the pages of Haratch, was vibrant with debates regarding the creation of a transnational linguistic community and notions of linguistic independence, highlighting its place as an important node of study at the intersection of print culture and diaspora-making.

The medical journal Hay Pouj (“Armenian Medicine”) was published in Paris from 1934 to 1967 by its founder and main editor, the writer Chavarch Nartouni (pen name of Chavarch Ayvazian). This article shows how, during this period, the review aimed to operate as a rallying space for Armenian immigrants living in France. Through its “medical-prophylactic and hygienic” project, Hay Pouj positioned itself at the “bedside” of the Armenian community in exile after the genocide, providing health advice and updating the community on the latest medical news. The history of this periodical reminds us of difficulties encountered in publishing a specialized Armenian-language journal on a permanent basis, with a worldwide distribution aimed at the diaspora. Hay Pouj is not a mere medical journal, as its more general ambition is to broker scientific knowledge. At another level, this editorial venture can also be read as an autobiographical portrait of Chavarch Ayvazian/Nartouni.

The HOG journal was published in Armenian in Paris from 1933 to 1935 by Communist organization of the same name: the “HOG” or Aid to Armenia Committee. With direct links to the Soviet authorities in Armenia, the review relayed their ideology to the diaspora, extolling the virtues of building a Soviet Armenia. Putting into perspective the historical context in which the magazine operated in Paris, this article aims to present its modus operandi and its influence strategy within the Armenian diaspora. It shows that the HOG journal’s propagandistic methods aimed to increase its readership’s awareness of internationalist concepts and spread the idea of the greatness, the invincibility and the modernity of the new Soviet society.

This short essay discusses the normative linguistic contribution of the French-based Harach daily to Western Armenian as a language spoken by most Armenians in exile until the 1960s. Articles and editorials by the newspaper’s founder, Shavarsh Missakian, and by one of his collaborators, the writer and pressman Shavarch Nartouni, illustrate Harach’s commitment to the defense of the Western Armenian language. They also speak to the formidable linguistic heritage created by this unique Armenian daily in Europe over its long run (1925-2009) in Paris.

İkinci Dünya Savaşı’ndan sonra Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Devleti’nin çok partili hayata geçmesiyle birlikte kurulan Demokrat Parti’nin iktidara gelmesinde basın büyük bir rol oynadı. Bunun farkında olan Demokrat Parti liderleri, basının bu desteğine karşılık, basına özgürlükler tanıyan bazı düzenlemeler getirdi. Fakat zaman içerisinde Demokrat Parti’nin gerek ekonomik gerekse diğer alanlarda bazı olumsuz politikalar uygulamaları haliyle basının iktidara karşı tepki göstermesine neden oldu. Buna karşılık iktidar, basının bu tepkisini bazı yöntemlerle engellemeye çalıştı. Lakin bu durum, 27 Mayıs askeri darbesi sonucunda iktidarın düşürülmesine neden olan sebeplerden biri oldu. 27 Mayıs darbesinden sonra basının önemli bir kısmı, darbeci güçlerin yanında yer aldı. Darbenin gerçekleştiği ilk günden itibaren gazetelerin manşetlerinde 27 Mayısı öven haberlere yer verilirken Demokrat Parti’yi itham edici haberlerden de çekinilmedi. Özellikle Yassıada mahkemelerinin devam ettiği günlerde Yassıada’da devam eden davalara gazete sayfalarında geniş yerler verilerek halkın dikkatleri bu yöne çekildi. Basının siyasi anlamda önemli bir güç olduğunun farkında olan Milli Birlik Komitesi döneminde basına özgürlük tanıyan birtakım düzenlemeler yapıldı. Basın mensupları ile işverenler arasında basın çalışanlarının haklarını koruyan kanunlar çıkarıldı. Ayrıca 1961 anayasasında basınla ilgili bazı hükümlere yer verildi. Bu makalede, 27 Mayıs askeri darbesinden sonra Türkiye’de basının darbeye, yeni iktidar çevrelerine ve devrilen Menderes hükümetine yönelik izlediği tavırlar ve yeni iktidar çevrelerinin basınla ilgili hayata geçirdiği düzenlemeler incelenecektir.

The article explores the interactions and public perceptions of Pierre Loti and Edmond Rostand, focusing on their social engagements, literary contributions, and the reception of their works. It delves into their unique relationship, particularly during their time in the Basque Country, and analyzes the media portrayal of these two iconic figures, highlighting instances of ridicule and infantilization in press coverage.

This ‘ego-archaeological’ text looks back at the early works of the author, Maël Rannou, who dreamed of becoming a comics artist in his childhood, before giving up in adulthood. He delves into archives preciously kept in his family and to identify the chronological traces of comics in childhood production. While comics in their most classic form appear around the age of 7, drawings from early childhood sometimes show earlier signs of comics: grid, speech bubbles... A production of stapled proto-magazines also emerged early on, prefiguring a fanzine publishing activity that began ten years later and still exists. Through this exploration of a child's production by a minor player in the world of comics, who eventually gave up drawing, the author offers a view that is certainly autobiographical and personal, but also a reflection on these anonymous and homemade productions.

Under the precepts of Galtonian eugenics, eugenic contests were organized in Brazil to elect and disseminate the « ideal national profile ». Based on newspapers and specialized journals, this article discusses the eugenic perspective deployed in these events, its importance for the Brazilian eugenics movement, and the role of the Health Education Inspectorate in the first half of the 20th century.

The article focuses on the study titled "Press and Politicization in a Border Situation: The Case of the Upper Rhine during the Era of Revolutions." It examines how newspapers along the Rhine River, from Mainz to Basel, contributed to the construction and dissemination of political cultures during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It mentions study evaluates the role of press in cultivating political cultures and explores linguistic strategies employed in newspapers.

Ebüzziyâ Mehmed Tevfik Bey, Osmanlı İmparatorluğunun son yarım asrında özellikle basın ve yayıncılık alanında birçok eser vermiş devrin önemli isimlerindendir. Avrupa’da basın alanındaki yenilikleri ve gelişmeleri yakından takip ederek İstanbul’da kurduğu Matbaa-i Ebüzziyâ’da yurtdışından getirdiği baskı malzemelerini ve klişeleri yine kendi ürettiği malzemelerle birlikte kullanmış ve böylelikle Osmanlı basın tarihinde birçok ilkleri yayın hayatına katmıştır. Tevfik Beyin kurduğu Matbaa-i Ebüzziyâ, dönemin otomatik makinelerle çalışan ilk Türk matbaası özelliğini taşımaktadır. Matbaa-i Ebüzziyâ’da Türkçe’nin yanında ayrıca Fransızca başta olmak üzere batı dillerinde de türlü kitap, gazete, evrak, fatura, zarf, etiket, form, kartvizit, kartpostallar ve çeşitli evrak basımı yapılmıştır. Osmanlı Devletinde batı tekniğiyle güzel ve temiz baskı yapma işini kendi matbaasında geliştiren Ebüzziyâ Tevfik Bey yayınladığı eserlerle, Almanya'da 1889'dan beri düzenlenen milletlerarası sanat baskıları (edition de lux) yarışmalarına katılmış ve bu yarışmalarda her yıl birkaç eseri dereceye girmiştir. Tevfik Beyin yarışmalara katıldığı eserleri “ lnternationale Graphische MusterAustausch” adlı yıllığa alınmıştır. Ebüzziyâ Tevfik Beyin yayıncılık alanındaki başarısından dolayı kendisine Fransa Devleti tarafından da kültür hizmeti liyakat madalyası verilmiştir. Ebüzziyâ Tevfik Bey, Osmanlı basın tarihinde de kûfi yazıyı kullanarak yaptığı çalışmalarla, son üç asır kadar bir süre Osmanlı tarihinde kullanım pratiği durmuş olan kûfi yazıyı yeniden canlandırmış ve bu yazının basın alanından mimariye, halı dokumadan çeşitli tüketim ürünlerine varan geniş bir yelpazede uygulamasını yaparak kûfi yazının kullanımının yeniden canlanmasına öncülük etmiştir. Avrupadan getirdiği klişeleri, yapmakta hünerli olduğu tezhip sanatındaki girift süslemeler ve kûfi yazıyı bir arada kullanarak kendine has bir üslub ile yorumlayan Ebüzziyâ Tevfik Bey, daha önce başka bir yerde görülmeyen kûfi yazılı kapak tasarımlarını bastırdığı eserlerle sergilemiştir. Bu çalışmada Ebüzziyâ Tevfik Beyin biyografisine ve Matbaa-i Ebüzziyâ’ da ürettiği kûfi yazı başlıklı kitap, mecmua, yıllık ve kart tasarımı gibi eserlerin kûfi yazı tasarımlarına yer verilmiştir.

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After the proclamation of the Romanian People's Republic in December 1947, a new direction in art developed. The Flacăra exhibition marks the beginning of Soviet-style socialist realism, which gradually takes hold of the Romanian art scene. The press played an essential role in the establishment of realism and exercised a particular form of control. The Communist Party realised that art and the press could be a powerful tool to convey the Marxist-Leninist ideology. The article analyses the press discourse on the works presented in Flacăra. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

After a brief overview of the development of the Mexican Mahjar press during the first three decades of the 20th century, this paper addresses two crucial debates of the migrant transregional public sphere in the 1930’s and 40’s. The first documented diasporic mobilization around the Great Arab Revolt in British Palestine (1936-1938). The political and social crisis that the Revolt articulated in the Mashriq triggered a storm of press coverage in the Mexican Mahjar which effected a qualitative shift in representation. Palestine was radically transformed. Initially cast as a geography of recreation characterized by natural beauty and Christian pilgrimage to the Holy Land, it became the axis of a heated debate around ‘the Palestine question’ and its moral geography. In this process, ways of representing Jewish populations also changed. They ceased to be understood through an Ottoman history of coexistence of religious traditions in the Mashriq, resignified as a homogeneous people, vector of the imperialist project of European Zionism. Coverage of the Revolt elicited no echo from the mainstream Mexican press or interlocution from the Phoenicianist Maronite migrant notability. The debate failed to engage the Mexican Mahjar with Palestinian ‘Arab futures’, except perhaps in the modality of spectacle. In contrast, in the economically difficult and politically impoverished climate in the wake of the Great Depression, the second key debate was a decade-long conversation across the migrant community and Mexican ideologues of mestizaje about the desirability, or not, of Mashriqis as permanent residents of Mexico and the limits to their integration into the mestizo nation. Notables mobilized modernist Nahda narratives to appropriate ancient Phoenician colonization of the Mediterranean, situating Arab migrants in Mexico as partners to local Spanish descent (criollo) elites in a common civilizing effort over mestizos and Amerindian populations.

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Étienne-Léon de Lamothe-Langon (1786-1864) was the author of numerous novels belonging to different genres. However, if he wasn't completely forgotten by the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th c., it was thanks to a long list of apocryphal memoirs attributed to famous people which in fact he wrote himself. At first, this paper shows reactions from the press in 1829 after the publication of Mémoires d'une femme de qualité sur Louis XVIII and Mémoires de la comtesse Du Barri. Although some journalists chose to perpetuate the fiction that the memoirs were authentic, others denounced them as false and heavily criticized this kind of literary enterprise. Thereafter, the article focuses on Lamothe-Langon's response to his critics and on his vision of apocryphal memoirs in his preface to Les Après-diners de S. A. S. Cambacérès (1837). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The paper approaches ways in which the debates around the tax reform in Argentina were reflected and readjusted into municipal levels during the WWI economic crisis. By taking the case of Posadas, capital city of the national territory of Misiones, it proposes to observe how the new debates on the tax system and the municipal attributions to establish a more progressive levy were reflected from the local newspaper La Tarde. Through this analyses it is sustained that the issues discussed show the circulation of ideas according to which municipalities were conceived as government institutions provided with the necessary attributions to introduce tax reforms or redirect their tax policies based on a progressive levy, and also regulate the prices of basic foodstuffs, in order to favor low-income sectors affected by the crisis. Likewise, we argue that although these conceptions were nurtured by widespread economic ideas such as Georgism, they also received influence from the experiences of other municipalities that worked as models of what could be done. In this context, municipal initiatives can be understood as inserted in a wider field of discussions over the scope of municipal capacities during the crisis and not only as local responses.

The Victims of COVID-19 in Burkina Faso and the Emergence of a Polarizing Discourse in Written Press ABSTRACT: The objective of this study is to demonstrate the conflict between the victims of covid-19 through their written discours depending on whether these people are socially important or not,(politically or regiously). Through argumentation theory (Amossy 2016 ; Koren and Amossy 2002), it emerges that the discourse of victims of the disease is a polarized discours. RESUME : L’objectif de la présente étude, c’est à partir des productions des personnes victimes de la covid-19 relayées dans la presse, de rechercher l’aspect polémique du discours selon que ces victimes occupent une position socialement haute (autorités politiques ou religieuses) ou une position socialement moyenne (n’assumant pas d’autorité politique ou religieuse). Dans une approche qui convoque l’analyse de l’argumentation dans le discours (Amossy 2016 ; Koren & Amossy 2002), la présente étude démontre que le discours des patients associe des procédés impliquant divers procédés linguistiques dans une logique de polarisation.

The French press was a crucial intermediary for the circulation of US literature in France during the 1940s. However, its role in this importing process has rarely been studied. Yet, the study of some forty journals (Combat, La Bataille, Action, Carrefour, Esprit...) confirms the construction of a “French taste” in American literature and suggests that the praise of American literary contributions was quickly criticized in periodicals with quite different editorial lines. Furthermore, it is in the press that some unknown mediators forged a critical discourse about a foreseeable influence of US texts on French writers: they were academics (Las Vergnas, Sigaux, Larnac), demanding aficionados (Beaumont, Blanzat, Fauchery, Hoog, Lalou, Morel), but also detractors of this importation (Henriot, Kanapa). The massive arrival of American literature in France did not create an ephemeral fever in the media. On the contrary, the French press scrutinized this American literary “moment” and addressed some fundamental questions, such as the reality of the American literary input or the advent of a literary massification caused by American influence.

The article examines how the media defines the cultural identity of the Moldovan population. Pro-Kremlin media narratives include anti-European and anti-American messages. The "Moldovanist" current includes ideas about the cultural and historical specificity of Moldova. European media criticizes the messages of Russian imperialism and argues for a European identity, which includes the Romanian idea. The media discourse on the identity issue is politicized and confrontational. The current situation calls for new approaches and solutions to create human solidarity.

This paper offers a study of the way Soviet authorities' discourses on music were received in France. The post-war period is very interesting in many aspects. The political landscape changed following Zhdanov and Stalin's deaths, and two decrees regarding music production were published in 1948 and 1958. The press bulletins of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as well as the journalistic and intellectual production with scholarly pretensions of the PCF inform us about the reception of Soviet music in the French public space. We understand the evolution of censorship in the USSR thanks to the discourse in France about the professional Soviet musician and about the Soviet opera. Since censorship in the USSR was not always controlled, it is appropriate to question the role of Soviet and French communist intellectuals. As such, we study socialist realism in music, but also the conflicts that the enforcement of such ideological principles produces. Moreover, although French sympathizers covered Soviet musical news extensively, we observe divergences of opinion resulting from the diversity of the editorial frameworks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In 1957, Japan launched its first experimental nuclear reactor, the JRR-1, in Tōkaimura (Ibaraki). The bedrock of the Japanese nuclear industry, it introduced the famed BWR technology—also used in the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant—and the training of the future workers of a flourishing industry. Based on the premise that the Fukushima accident was in part caused by the nuclear village—a system created with the commissioning of JRR-1 reactor in Tōkaimura—this paper analyses how the national newspapers covered the launch of the first Japanese reactor, and how the remaining media records suggest that the Fukushima nuclear accident falls within the continuity of earlier policies.

In the last few years, events like the #GamerGates and the denunciations of sexual harassment show that there are still persistent problems linked to the situation of women in the video games culture and industry. This violence is far from new. Research shows the difficulties that video games encounter when it comes to the subject of gender, may it be in the games themselves or the specialized press. As such, this article analyzes English and French video game magazines to understand how they approached the subject of women from 1985 to 2001. Our goal is to demonstrate the necessity of using a microanalysis to observe a corpus that still includes dissonances, influences, and resistance even in a patriarchal and hegemonic general context.

This study focuses on the detailed account of the Parisian theaters daily receipts register from 1858 to 1867 during the Second French Empire time and on the role of the debate around receipts in the Second Empire theatrical life thanks to the analysis of different newspapers of the time. This debate first opens the way to the approval of the decree of January 6th 1864 on the abolition of the system of privileges and therefore on the "freedom of theaters". Then, it highlights the economic aspects linked to the theatre management, including some historical controversies such as the deduction on "Poor Laws” from receipts.

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Pif Gadget is one of the major French comic strip newspapers of the 1970s. Communist press organ, it spread to Eastern Europe but also, in a less known (and less ideologic) way, to Quebec. Based on an analysis of the Quebec digital press, online fan exchanges, and semi-structured interviews with former readers, this article looks back on the transfers of Pif Gadget and his comics to Quebec. It returns in particular to the various revivals of the newspaper's series in Quebec, studies its media implementation strategies, its attempts at local editions, and its reception, in particular on a whole generation of important authors of comics in Quebec.

This article analyses how the regime of Benito Mussolini disrupts the functioning of the press and the profession of journalist in fascist Italy (1922-1943).

The noted lack of research on news topics seems to be due to the challenges involved in defining and identifying them. This article attempts to eliminate those two obstacles. Drawing on a systemic view of mass media, it characterizes news topics using conceptual notions of media events, categories, and signs. The article treats mass media news, broken down into multiple topics, as a moment in time that is both constantly renewed and shaped by the distant and not-so-distant past. It goes on to suggest a number of tools for successfully identifying news themes based on a corpus of output from television and radio stations and the press.

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An interview with Benoît Prot, a former press professional turned newspaper collector, is presented. He discussed his extensive experience in the press industry, from creating school newspapers to managing renowned publications like Okapi and L'Étudiant. He described the challenges and joy of collecting, detailing the sources of acquisition, including auctions and old paper fairs.

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In the few academic works on the subject, the video game press is often seen as a space dedicated to the construction of a shared videogame culture, or a “gamer’s habitus”. It is thus recognized as an intermediary that inscribes a series of referents over time; a role of catalyst that, through a battery of specific notation criteria, describes video games, both good ones and bad ones. So much so that, by dint of working with the industry, many academic actors perceive the video game press as deprived of any critical spirit. This paper seeks to deconstruct the devaluations arguing that the video game press would be a mere buying guide. Some active journalists, tired of pegging their content to the news, are developing a series of tactics to enrich the treatment of their videogame raw material. By analyzing a series of examples, we seek to demonstrate how these original insights contribute to enriching the language of discourses about video game.

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The tendency in Ivorian society to play down or laugh at a phenomenon considered serious or important is growing. It can reveal, apart from a trivialization of the facts, a particular rhetoric in order to achieve a particular objective, which is surely to draw attention to a fact or simply to raise awareness. This study is an essay on the analysis of press cartoons on migration. The press cartoon takes its source in the comic strip, a genre of paraliterature, which can too quickly be classified in a "sub-literature". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]