L'Internet @ Drummondville.

Abstract

This research aims to define the role of a new communication technology, Internet, into the development of a locality. Will it be a tool for autonomy, gathering an, economic, community and social support? Will it increase the gap between the dynamic environment and the apathetic? Will it change the center periphery relations, the metropolis- intermediate city relations? Will Internet have a real impact on the development methods? Will it stimulate the interest of the political, economical, community and cultural leaders? Two methods have been used to define the appropriation and the deployment of Internet in the intermediate city of Drummondville: (1) making an inventory of Internet sites related to the city and analysing them; (2) meeting with 17 city contributors which use and develop the Internet. Those two distinct methods allowed to highlight the actual development of Internet in Drummondville and to learn about the future development. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)