Towards a communicational engineering approach to the co-construction of public action? Pre-print of article published in Communiquer, 33 | -1, p. 84-103. Geoffrey Volat, Vers une ingénierie communicationnelle pour penser la co-construction de l'action publique?

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This text seeks to scientifically construct an approach to the co-construction processes of public action from a communicative perspective. To achieve this, the analysis is the result of action research and ethnographic investigation within a French local community. Specifically, we studied a policy on social and solidarity economy and social innovation aimed at democratizing public action. The thesis presented here argues that communication should be understood not from an intercomprehensive perspective but rather from an approach through incommunication. Consequently, the processes of co-construction of public action are subject to these incommunication phenomena and require the communicative intervention of an actor in a mediation posture to engage in dialogue between two perspectives. Firstly, the reduction of incommunication, and secondly, the construction of a shared perspective among actors with unique socio-cultural backgrounds.