A perspective of financing
The study of cultural practices used to understand many fundamental dynamics underlying communication practices. The same Thus, the communication sciences provide a decisive contribution to a better knowledge of such practices.
We start from the point of view that the media can be understood better if we frame in the broader context as that of the entire cultural practices of which are tributaries and part
(1). Us propose to consider that both the media and practices cultural competence of a common analytical perspective. At the borders of a and other cultural attitudes come into play fundamental democratization and access to culture, role of media in the dissemination of cultural works, etc..
Having shown the role of the media access to the culture, opening paper often forgotten, we will build on recent data Canadians to emphasize a fact that undoubtedly a milestone in the history consumption of media: the decline in conventional television,
associated with another event, not less decisive, the less time dedicated to media consumption in the total free time. We propose that this trend is linked to a deep diversity of cultural practices that leads in turn to a pluralization of the uses of the means are made.
Finally, we recall some of the fundamental relations between means and
cultural practices.
THE ROLE OF THE MEDIA ACCESS TO THE CULTURE
It is impossible to limit the study of cultural practices to the presence in the spaces or facilities where they are held. No visits are reduced to museums or attendance at theatrical performances. Current research allow indeed conclude that cultural participation goes much further thanks to information technology and communication. Thus, in the U.S. in 1992, the audience for classical music, jazz, theater was usually
twice through numerous television shows in room (Table 1).
The same can be said of cinema: the public theaters or decreases, or stabilized, by country, but the number of films that are not therefore ceases to increase, due mainly to the television specialized in distribution of films in conventional television and rental
video tapes. Access to scientific and cultural information has come to both hands of the networks.
In short, the media contribute to expanding so irrefutably significant access to cultural products, thereby increasing the real public culture. Certainly, we can ask questions about the nature of that relationship to culture, when it is mediated and by the logic of consumption of cultural industries. Clearly the relations with the work differ greatly, becoming more distant.
Some may even regret that the media come to replace the direct contact with cultural works. Should we therefore dismiss the visit museums via CD-ROM? Any consideration of culture must now take into account the survey data showing a doubling of the levels of
cultural participation through the media and raise a certainly fundamental question as to “cultural democracy”.