Journalistes et lecteurs-contributeurs sur mediapart

Abstract

Résumé « Contourner » le journalisme professionnel sur internet renvoie, le plus souvent, à l’avènement d’un journalisme « participatif », ou encore à la multiplication de productions « citoyennes » ou « ordinaires ». À partir d’une analyse du site journalistique Médiapart, nous voudrions montrer ici que « contourner » le journalisme, c’est également composer avec la prolifération des échanges entre journalistes et lecteurs, permise par le web 2.0, pour redimensionner, affirmer et raffermir les frontières de cette profession. Médiapart, par son projet politique, son modèle économique, la structure de sa plate-forme technique, et par la multiplication des débats qu’il rend possible et contribue à animer, invite en effet à examiner comment se conteste mais aussi se rétablit la distance entre le professionnel et l’amateur.

On Curiosity: The Art of Market Seduction

“…The first operates in space ('closer'), by allowing scattered and distant readers to enjoy the impression that they are 'as close as possible to events'; the second, extends into diachrony, by offering each person the possibility of 'living in the moment' , and of 'following the present' . The power of this double reconciliation -this game of intimacy and reality -has increased significantly in recent years, not only, as we have seen, with the possibility of readers entering into the very heart of journalistic production, in the numerous blogs, in collaborative articles, and in the interactivity in the form of posted comments (Canu and Datchary 2010), but also through the promotion of new ways of ensuring continuous and immediate access to information, with the development of online 'chat', the continuous posting of dispatches, tweets, RSS feeds, among others; in short, the flood of all these various exciting pieces of news, which are not there because we seek them out, but paradoxically because they have come to us, and because they give us the impression of having crossed the globe, through serendipity, at the mercy of the twin movements of dispersal (Datchary 2010) and exploration (Auray 2011). Furthermore, certain devices allow these two forces to be combined, by soliciting the participation of the public in topics of the moment, such as, for example, the instant surveys offered daily on the Le Figaro website (Fig.…”

“…More specifically, the Mediapart club is a small society which, if not secret, is at least privileged, and allows the subscribers who wish to do so to 'participate' (not only by posting opinions but also their own content), to have access to reading or writing 'blogs', and even to organise the drafting of special 'Editions' . When compared with the Club, the section of the paper reserved for professional journalists appears as an area that is even more privileged and restricted (Canu and Datchary 2010). The name Mediapart is a good interpretation of the paper's concern to engage readers in an exciting 'Media-centred participation' experience (Ibid., my emphasis).…”

A comparação da identidade dos jornalistas online em suas relações com os públicos no Brasil e na França

“…No caso da França, os jornalistas que trabalham em alguns veículos pure players, como Mediapart ou Rue89, praticam ainda o jornalismo investigativo e sobretudo a prática de apuração. A ideia é afirmar uma identidade editorial distinta das redações on-line vinculadas à mídia tradicional (Canu & Datchary, 2010;Aubert, 2009).…”

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“…As for the relation of the press to the contribution of readers to the production of content, the journalist's profession and its legitimate foundations remain indispensable. Journalism should not be dispensed with but must be rethought, with further refinement of its broad lines (Canu & Datchary, 2010). Charon (2010) considers that print journalism has become very weak, as the transformations in the media have undoubtedly led to the dissemination of news on the Internet playing a fundamental and different role.…”