01772cam a2200301 4500500 20260329003504.0 fre dc Gaillard, Robin author Exploration and scientific progress: communicative positioning of French public research institutions 2023. 23 ‪At the heart of the National research strategy (SNR) launched in 2014 in France, speeches on exploration seem to be important symbolic resources for the science public policies legitimation. The aim of this article is to analyze the communication strategies of institutions in view of the ideological concerns surrounding the notion of exploration. First, by analyzing four communications produced at the launch of the SNR and the fourth “Programme d’investissements d’avenir”, this contribution intends to highlight what, in the public communication, can be related to a cognitive framework of exploration. Then, it will be about mapping the institutional actors according to their communicative positioning towards exploration, highlighting that they rely on an updated ideology of progress.‪ communicational positioning exploration institutions progress public communication science public policies communicational positioning exploration institutions progress public communication science public policies Questions de communication | o 42 | 2 | 2023-03-13 | p. 49-72 | 1633-5961 https://shs.cairn.info/journal-questions-de-communication-2022-2-page-49?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080 1824994 1824994