Reconfigurations of Journalistic Field

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[...] From ideological control to the electoral project? Certainly there is a mobilization that leads to a recomposition of the journalistic field, but in any case we must answer one of our problems: how would electoral sociology allow us to question the power of conservative journalism on the voting decision of the French and French? Non-journalistic causes of voting To do this, we can mobilize the results of electoral sociology, and first and foremost the original study of Richard Hoggart, The Uses of Literacy (translated by The Culture of the Poor) which refutes any decision-making power of the media on social agents by describing the distant attention given to television newspapers in England. [...]

[...] Transition: The inherent power relations in field dynamics seem to lead to a 'désautonomisation' of journalists in relation to political and ideological objectives. This is linked to the political treatment of journalistic information and the reproduction of media gender domination (Nancy Fraser). II. A 'conservative' mobilization? Less a panorama of the forms of domination reproduced and targeted than a development of the concept of 'conservative mobilization', this part must above all serve to question this notion through the prism of its potential effectiveness and the different forms it can take. [...]

[...] A favorable political opportunity structure? The notion of 'political opportunity structure' discussed by Olson: can we speak of a structuring favorable to the social world of conservative ideas? More broadly, the success of mobilizations (notably by the succession of funding, seats on boards of administration obtained) implies questioning (in accordance with Olson's concept) the effective proximity of these patrons in the field of power. Conclusion In short, the media are at the heart of power strategies through conservative mobilizations, aiming to establish a legitimate and unique political framework through journalistic treatment of information and modify the rules of the field. [...]

[...] However, the confrontation of these results with electoral sociology can allow for nuancing such media power, particularly on an 'influence' of electoral practices, which is rather related to class affiliation or economic and geographical downgrading (B. Coquard, Those who remain, La Découverte). One could be interested in the class habitus that contribute to the homogenization of world views and practices. More broadly, one could question a division journalistique du travail de domination and, in this sense, questioning the defection of several media from the X platform as a form of 'resistance'. [...]

[...] Media serving a conservative mobilization? Introduction : While we like to present the media as 'counter-powers', political attacks on press freedom as well as successive purchases by several French billionaires and major executives seem to contribute to a reconfiguration of the functioning of the journalist profession and the field of journalism (understood as a social space based on power relationships). In view of their social characteristics but also by questioning their objectives (do they go beyond profit?), the dissertation's stakes can be trying to question the contemporary place of the media (understood as the ensemble of platforms - digital, paper - contributing to the production of information dealing with political and national news)1) through the prism of the concept of 'conservative mobilization' That's why we decide to question the media as a social space: do these latter know structural changes, explainable by an organized mobilization, perhaps conscious (without too much crediting the theories of rational action) of a conservative ideological movement, in the sense of social and political values promoted? [...]