Quebec will launch its first university program in cultural discoverability this fall. The graduate-level training offered by the Universit\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al (UQAM) aims to equip professionals with the tools to better position their cultural content on major online platforms.<\/p>\n
In line with Quebec\u2019s efforts in discoverability, including the adoption of a law to that effect last December, the microprogram of the Faculty of Communication at UQAM has been granted a subsidy.<\/p>\n
The Minister of Culture and Communications, Mathieu Lacombe, announced on Tuesday financial assistance of just over $111,000 to support its creation.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is with initiatives like this, combined with government actions such as the adoption of Bill 109 and Quebec\u2019s mobilization at UNESCO, that we will allow Quebec culture to benefit from the digital revolution rather than suffer from it,\u201d Lacombe said in a statement.<\/p>\n
The training should, in particular, enable the development of skills to understand how cultural content currently circulates and to design strategies that promote access to and dissemination of works. The courses could be useful, for example, to digital cultural development officers.<\/p>\n
\u201cThrough this new discoverability training, UQAM will collectively help us to have a better theoretical understanding of the issues surrounding discoverability and also to equip the cultural sector with practitioners capable of supporting the sector in the years to come,\u201d the minister said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
According to UQAM Rector St\u00e9phane Pallage, the university is \u201ctaking a decisive step\u201d by moving \u201cfrom recognized research expertise (\u2026) to the transmission of knowledge and skills necessary to intervene concretely in the digital environments of culture.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2013This report by La Presse Canadienne was translated by CityNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Quebec will launch its first university program in cultural discoverability this fall. The graduate-level training offered by the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-527543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}