TRIQUET ERIC

Structure(s)

Component and department

Information and Communication Sciences Department
UFR Humanities and Social Sciences

Research topics

• Mediation through storytelling
• Media coverage of live issues
• Museum education
• Museum, heritage and digital

Biography

Biography and research themes At the start of the 2015 academic year, I was appointed to a PU post at the University of Avignon in the Information and Communication Sciences (SIC) department, after twenty years spent teaching science didactics at an Institut Universitaire de Formation des Maîtres. My research career has thus taken me back and forth between the fields of Education Sciences and Information and Communication Sciences. It began with a thesis focusing on the notion of 'media transposition', with reference to science exhibitions. This was followed by a thesis on 'museum literacy'. The research carried out in the wake of this work has led me to explore a number of issues relating to the functions of narrative in the mediation of science and technology. I am studying various objects - museums and exhibitions, the discourse of guides in the natural environment, children's literature albums and 'docu-fictions' - which are seen as knowledge mediation devices in the service of formal and non-formal education. At the same time, I'm interested in mediating socially sensitive scientific issues and socio-scientific controversies. Since I was recruited as a professor at the University of Avignon (2015), I have also been developing research in museology on the interactions between digital technology and the worlds of museums and heritage. Responsibilities Co-director of the Agorantic Research Federation (FR-CNRS 3621), a multidisciplinary research organisation focusing on "Culture, Heritage and Digital Societies". Co-director of the publication and editing of the journal Culture & museumsThis scientific journal focuses on original research into cultural audiences, institutions and mediation. Publications : Publications of Eric TRIQUET