Conclusion
Mediation has never been discussed this much! Every day, in newspapers, on television, etc., we read or hear about a mediation process or a mediator involved in the social and political life. From a topical phenomenon, mediation has become a key concept for our reflection on 21st-Century society. This concept belongs to an area of research that is firmly situated at the core of Information and Communication Sciences (ICS).
We do not expect to have explored all the aspects of mediation in this book. However, we hope that this brief overview of mediation will provide readers with elements that allow them to grasp how this concept is understood in human and social sciences, and more specifically in ICS.
In the first part of this work, we have examined the specific criteria that give mediation coherence independent of the fields in which it is implemented. While studying the foundations of this concept, we have emphasized the threefold dimension of mediation, which is an aspect mentioned by every author in all the fields that have employed the concept of mediation.
We have mentioned, occasionally in a cursory and allusive manner, a certain number of elements that allow us to clarify how this concept is understood (among others, the idea of third party, relation, subject, institution, organization, dispositive, time, etc.). Besides these elements, which have been studied in the first part, we should remember as one of our key points that mediation cannot be reduced to ...