Training day and co-construction of educational tools to work on self-image, designed in collaboration between theMaison de l’image (Noémie Rubat du Mérac, project manager) and Benoît Labourdette. April 26, 2018.
Summary of the day on the website of the House of the image (Grenoble, France):www.maison-image.fr/rdvi/2018-2.
Digital technology has changed human behaviour much more than we could have imagined: private and public life are now intertwined, changing our social relationships and our experience of intimacy. Social networks bring citizens into new ways of being connected, of valuing themselves, of existing, of becoming a society. But if images can help to be part of the world, they also represent undeniable risks: judgment, comparison, manipulation, harassment...
The intimacy was first exposed on the small screen via reality TV. Over the past ten years, with Facebook, YouTube, and others, the viewer has become an actor, producing and broadcasting content, sometimes the most violent. This phenomenon of trivialisation of hatred can be amplified by digital social networks. What is it the symptom of?
Circulating without the media filter, images have become a form of autonomous language. In what ways do they impact our concrete lives, our psyche, our body?
Dramatizing the risks associated with digital uses will not help to prevent them. Therefore, what positive, creative, constructive actions should be taken to support young people and (re)take power over images?Les Rendez-Vous de l’Image offers professionals keys to understand and action plans to support young people in their digital worlds.
The Maison de l’Image reaffirms its mission of image education and wishes to promote synergies in order to respond to the requests of professionals on these social issues.
By Flore Guattari, child and adolescent development psychologist.
By François Jost, semiologist, professor emeritus at the Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3.
Design and delivery of professional training in the field of image education, for teachers, facilitators, responsible for educational facilities, cultural and social, and cinema theater directors.
With the new technology tools, to “connect” with the practices of youth and enlighten.