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Qu'est-ce qu'un dirigeant de médias ? Comment sont définies les frontières du groupe ? Alors que la sociologie française a produit une littérature féconde sur les élites économiques politiques, étatiques intellectuelles et artistiques, le patronat de presse est resté à l'écart des terrains d'enquête. Cette situation tranche avec l'abondante littérature anglo-saxonne sur le personnel de direction des médias d'information. Résultat : dans les discours journalistiques et militants, le registre de l'autocélébration médiatique et son pendant symétrique, la dénonciation, alimentent le mythe du dirigeant de média tout puissant. L'objectif de cet ouvrage est de rompre avec ce sens commun en prenant pour objet d'analyse ce groupe professionnel. Il entend dépasser la personnification et l'anecdote pour dégager des logiques internes et externes, éclairer les différentes facettes de cette population, mettre en évidence les rouages de leur sélection. Comment se fabrique un dirigeant de média national, en France ? Au terme de quel processus ? Quelles sont les ressources et les capitaux qui sont valorisés ? Quels rapports de force entre segments de l'élite révèlent-ils ? [4e de couv.]

Mass media --- Executives --- Social aspects --- Social conditions. --- Entrepreneurship --- Mass media - Social aspects - France. --- Executives - France - Social conditions. --- Anthropology --- sociologie --- information --- communication

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This book examines the effects of media interventions in the global South, and argues for a more adaptive, context-sensitive media development. The work investigates media development as part of statebuilding, and the effects that Western-led media has in, and on, a newly built state. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, including interviews, observations and social surveys, it analyses the effect media interventions has on global South countries, from the population's point of view. The findings show that in practice media development can be alien to the societies in which a free press is implemented, which can lead to unintended and negative consequences for social relations in a country. While the book uses South Sudan as a case study, it also presents different perspectives and shows that local views on the media are different from those of Western experts and policymakers. Therefore, the book advocates taking local views seriously and an adaptive media development that is sensitive to the context in which it is set up.

MASS MEDIA AND NATION-BUILDING--SOUTH SUDAN --- MASS MEDIA--POLITICAL ASPECTS--SOUTH SUDAN --- MASS MEDIA--SOCIAL ASPECTS--SOUTH SUDAN --- Mass media and nation-building --- Mass media --- Mass communication --- Media, Mass --- Media, The --- Communication --- Nation-building and mass media --- Nation-building

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The book examines the experience of living in a society that has more information available to the public than ever before. It focuses on the interpretations, emotions, and practices of dealing with this abundance in everyday life. Drawing upon extensive fieldwork and survey research conducted in Argentina, the book inquiries into the role of cultural and structural factors that mediate between the availability of information and the actual consequences for individuals, media, politics, and society. Providing the first book-length account of the topic in the Global South, it concludes that the experience of information abundance is tied to an overall unsettling of society, a reconstitution of how we understand and perform our relationships with others, and a twin depreciation of facts and appreciation of fictions

Information society --- Information technology --- Mass media --- Information behavior --- Media literacy --- Social aspects --- IT (Information technology) --- Technology --- Telematics --- Information superhighway --- Knowledge management --- Sociology --- Mass media literacy --- Information literacy --- Information-seeking behavior --- Human behavior --- Mass communication --- Media, Mass --- Media, The --- Communication --- Information society. --- Information technology - Social aspects - Argentina --- Mass media - Social aspects - Argentina --- Information behavior - Argentina --- Media literacy - Argentina