The mediatization of economic and political transformations

Abstract (English)

In today's capitalist system, where economic and political transformations are at work on a global and local scale, how is media coverage (professional and non-professional) constructed and redesigned to reflect these transformations (Costa and al., 2022) ? What are the channels of dissemination, the technical tools, the techniques, the networks of actors (Campbell-Kelly and Garcia-Swartz, 2015) ? Where are the points of tension between media actors ? Between media organizations ? To what extent are technologies such as AI and big data involved in information gathering, data processing and information formation for the public ?
This panel aims to address visual, sound and textual mediatizations as they appear in newspapers, on social networks and in other types of media such as podcasts. How are these media mediatized ? In what visual and/or sound forms, and in what terms ? When reading these media formats, how do readers think of themselves in a changing globality, and how do they think of the changing localities they frequent on a daily basis ?
All these questions are interesting for understanding how a part of media culture and the imaginary of current economic-political transformations is constructed. This panel also aims to explore notions of information and news. What is the status of information ? How does media information produce (or not) an idea of current events (Arno's, 2009) ? How can news be defined in relation to the imaginary ? Is news a production of the imaginary ? For its part, the imaginary suggests the idea of a mental elaboration about a capacity for action on the world : we project ourselves into the future and think about our past actions. Imagination is also a way of creating a link between ourselves and the world : we have an idea of the world in general, and we think ourselves into it.
These questions, which can be asked on the panel, are relevant to understanding the notion of information. Indeed, the practice of mediatizing, or making visible, an event or phenomenon implies an invisibilization of data that could potentially be understood as information, but which for commercial reasons for example, are not mediatized (Stallabrass, 2020).
In considering the notion of information in anthropology, how anthropology can address the issue of information in journalism or news production (non-professional journalism on social networks) (Boyer, 2012) ? That is to say, based on the survey methodologies of the participants in this panel, we will be able to put into dialogue the policies and conditions of information production by anthropologists and those carried out by the actors of news production.