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Madiba, Oloko Georges. "Médias, médiations et constitution d'un espace public : une analyse socio-sémiotique des stratégies discursives des acteurs de la société civile au Cameroun (1992-2000)." Paris 3, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA030013.
Full textThe Communications strategies of several categories of actors contributing to the public debate ( through the media ) help fashion the figures concerning Cameroonian public opinion and civil society. This thesis explores two issues : What are the meanings of the concepts of " public opinion" and "civil society", in relation to the Cameroonian society ? Who use these concepts and to what ends? How can journalists contribute to the creation and management of a public sphere and will the result be the establishment of a liberal society ? The analysis of 371 editorials, columns, and contributions in three Cameroon newspapers and two Panafrican news magazines between 1992 and 2000 led us to the following conclusion : the changes which started in the 1990's, concern the transition from a " court society" to a "civil society". This is considered as a substitute for the deficiencies of the state. The media invoke "civil society" as the main actor in politics- this exemplifies both its sociological reality and that of public opinion. In conclusion, by a metaphorical convocation, a "figurativation", a personification of the civil society and public opinion, and finally by a double " presentification" of the public in the social field, media discourse favours the creation of a public sphere. This sphere, itself subsumes and inter-relates with other societal configurations
Kedowide, Hubert. "De l'événement médiatique international à sa médiatisation nationale : analyse socio-sémiotique du traitement des propos du pape Benoît XVI sur le préservatif dans les quotidiens de Québec et du Cameroun." Doctoral thesis, Université Laval, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/25281.
Full textPerruchot, Béatrice. "Le règne de l'opinion publique : étude philosophique de la nature politique de l'information de masse et de l'opinion publique." Paris 4, 1985. http://www.theses.fr/1985PA040049.
Full textRostagni, Carole-Martine. "Justice pénale et opinion publique : nouvelles réflexions sur la présomption d'innocence." Toulon, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002TOUL0033.
Full textThe principle basic of examining secret, in the court penal is the reputatlon's protection and the honour of accused. This principle is confronting with Information right, or more exactly its usage. Information right, in the court penal, legitimate the presence of public opinion and its claim of a transparent justice. Well, the justice can't be the forum of socials' emotions, like it couldn't be the active arm of the public opinion. Besides, the excess of transparency harms the right working of institutions judicial, as the excess of silence, legalize by the law of 15 June 2000. The presence of medias in the court penal can't be to derive from Democratic State, even if the conciliation of two institutions and interests who motivate them, seems difficult. Indeed, face at this custom judicial, to reveal by the shape and the scene where the justice is dispensing, medias are distraught : neither shape nor scene. It's the world of silence against the world of "information express" and the absence of thought. Well, to judge require from structure the thought. The elaration of medias' status is imperative for to protect from Innocence Presumption of whom the concept "of innocence" is controversial by public opinion for political-financial offences. As the indictment, Innocence Presumption must to receive a new concept. A reality protection of Integrity presumption of representatives require a particular procedure of whom the objective is the reinforcement of the responsibility of magistrates and medias. In that perspective, we must to remember the mission of public service of the justice, to translate in a private service for public opinion, the social role and economics interests to stake
Mbede, Emmanuel. "L'identité de la télévision publique en Afrique : le cas de CRTV (Cameroun) et RTS1 (Sénégal)." Lyon 2, 2006. http://theses.univ-lyon2.fr/documents/lyon2/2006/mbedebala_e.
Full textSince the world wide generalization of the end of a television monopoly the enforcement of programming strategies and the constraints of audiences are realities shared by private television of the North as well as the public ones in the South. This is what reinforced the fear of a homogenization of audio-visual products and raises the issue of identity. This study aims at bringing out the diffrent identity profiles of television channel. With the examples of Cameroon and Senegal publics televisions, we shall propose an analysis of the explicist and implicit indicators and practices that build the specificity of each channel in order to set up a normative analysis gril of identity television. The purpose of our study is to highlight the institutionnal and popular grounds on which CRTV and RTS1 try to construct their national identity. If applied to other channels, these comments may enable us to reflect on the issue of channel identities in a more global and concrete way
Girod, Alain. "Les mutations de l'espace public et la construction médiatique de "l'opinion publique"." Lyon 2, 2000. http://theses.univ-lyon2.fr/documents/lyon2/2000/girod_a.
Full textThis doctorate tries to answer two questions : aren't the transformations of public sphere characterized on the one hand by the generalization of a logic based on audience and so by certain "privatization" of public sphere ? And, on the other hand, aren't we faced with a phenomenon based on advertising of opinions, on media construction of public opinion ? The first part, dedicated to the theorical and institutional foundations of public sphere, is dividedin three chapters the first constitutes a critical analysis of the theories presented by Habermas ; the second tries to analyse the french ôlitical system, in his institutional and partisan dimensions ; the third chapter, last, tries to study the media device who exists in France, on the economical respect and on the respect of his specific rules before analysing the "information society" mythology and the "journalism influence". The second part, who deals with the show logic, groups together four chapters : the first tackles the influence of communication on public sphere ; the second refers to the show law from a thought on the picture power and on the contradictions between the "large audience" and public sphere ; the third refers to the deep emotional dimension of the media ; the fourth, last, deals with the interpenetration between private sphere and public sphere. The third part, last, is organized around four chapters the first constitutes a reflection on public opinion before opinion polls ; the second analyses precisely opinion polls ; the third examines the media construction of social representations ; the fourth, last, refers to conflicts between the media and politics
Comby, Jean-Baptiste. "Créer un climat favorable. Les enjeux liés aux changements climatiques : valorisation publique, médiatisation et appropriations au quotidien." Paris 2, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PA020086.
Full textSramski, Sandra. "Des représentations interculturelles dans la presse écrite française sur l'Argentine, le Brésil et le Mexique : imaginaires collectifs et identités collectives." Montpellier 3, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001MON30052.
Full textThe media, by telling the world what is going on, turn themselves into places of collective memoryand of expression of interculturality. By speading a collective way of thinking, they give information about the social relationships, the way people think, the system of values and the representations which govern the different cultural communities. The intercultural representations express, often implicity, collective imaginaries, which constitute the bases of the collective identities of these different communities. Thus, the representations -process to acquire knownledge- contibute to the building up of social groups, of their interrelations and of their identities. Understanding the way they function and the part they play, by studying their wordings in the media, allows to better understand these processes of social and individual organization and structuring. The comparative analysis of the language used in french newspapers Libération and le Figaro, in 1984, focussing on the information related to economics and sport event, shed light both on the intercultural representations France has of Argentina, Brazil and Mexico, and on the discursive processes which convey them. The integration of an identitary speech into the language used by the media takes place through the choice of the events dealt with and through the way the information is tackled, thanks to strategies of expression of subjectivity. Becoming aware of the activ role of the representations in the constitution of the culture and of the influence of these representations over the behaviours and speeches can lead to an evolution of the social relationships. This awareness of a better understanding of the other can be applied to the teaching of languages and cultures, since the intercultural representations constitute a subject which, by giving access to the implicite references of the native speackers which codify their own way of speacking, can lead to a better intercultural communication
Merra, Lucile. "Pour une sociologie des médias sociaux : Internet et la révolution médiatique : nouveaux médias et interactions." Thesis, Paris 5, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA05H024/document.
Full textThis thesis is focused on the analysis of a topic that is still a “work in progress” in Sociology: social media. Although this tautological expression may be amazing at first sight, it appears that no academic definition of social media has been proposed to date. This gap in academic research illustrates that this topic is both recent and complex. Therefore, our research aims to conduct a contextual analysis of the emergence of a new media. This research is based on an empirical approach through the study of uses, practices and representations of social media users. As social media are characterized by the interactionist dimension, our research will target active users. From these connected and networked people to active audiences, our analysis will focus on new ways related to involvement. Our research will contribute to the sociological understanding of a social, cultural and media topic that represents social media as well as the set up of social movements supported by social media
Pascal, Alexandra. "La justice pénale et les médias : approches juridique et sociologique." Thesis, Paris 2, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA020061.
Full textIn France, the last 60 years or so have seen a sharp increase in the media profile of the criminal justice system. The explanation lies in the massive growth in media outlets (press, radio, television, internet) and in the increasing interest shown by journalists, not only in run-of-the-mill crime stories but in cases of corruption at the top of the political system. Public interest in such doings is huge, although with mostly little regard to the legal and technical complexities of the criminal law and its processes. The justice system in principle allows some media reporting by press and broadcasters, but the present-day appetite for information extends far deeper, into its more secret workings. The Law has adjusted, not without difficulty, to the realities of the communication society. In criminal proceedings, some windows have been thrown open on aspects of previously hidden processes. The judiciary, as an institution, has had to bow to popular pressure, has become more communicative, and has learned to use the media to keep people better informed. Different issues are at stake. The media, as a provider of information, perform a public service. But the urgency of the rush to print – and the pressure to publish undisclosed information including the most sensational – conflict with the justice system, that acts according to a more deliberate legal process than journalism, particularly when the latter’s logic is financial. The criminal justice system disseminates information to enhance its own value as a working institution. Even so, it may slip from being media-sensitive to being media-dependent or “mediatic”—and increasingly so. Different objectives give rise to unresolved conflicts, whose resolution relies on a balancing act that seeks to reconcile the principles of an open democratic society, with the fundamental freedoms guaranteed by national and supranational legal systems
Blanchard, Philippe. "Les médias et l’agenda de l’électronucléaire en France. 1970-2000." Paris 9, 2010. https://bu.dauphine.psl.eu/fileviewer/index.php?doc=2010PA090001.
Full textCombining modeling and sociological approaches to agenda helps understand the construction of the nuclear issue as a long-term public controversy and policy. To a quite stable policy lead by a cohesive policy community corresponds a long-term trend of positive public support, but punctuated with bursts of protest. To explain the upheavals of some publics’ support, the media coverage appears as a crucial factor. Two successive cycles of media coverage occur, both linked to a state of the local référentiel, embedded in the global one. Yet neither of them leads to a steady rejection of nuclear energy by the public, nor by the elite. Two agenda strategies face each other: contestants seek maximum visibility, defenders discretion and alternative framing, but they only account for a part of the controversy process. Non strategic agendas also have to be dealt with. They are lead by dramatic events, crisis, non anticipated consequences of prepared achievements and non coordinated strategies that happen to converge
Delbarre, Roger. "Mutations des médiations, médiatisations et gestion des opinions en RDA : le cas de la jeunesse(1965-1989)." Grenoble 3, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999GRE39005.
Full textKassardjian, Elsa. "Appropriation de concepts en situation d'éducation non formelle : cas d'une exposition scientifique sur les OGM : une exposition scientifique peut-elle influencer l'opinion que ses visiteurs ont (ou se font) des OGM?" Lyon 1, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002LYO10121.
Full textChidiac, May. "L' influence de la politique sur l'évolution du paysage télévisuel au Liban : 1958-2008." Paris 2, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PA020050.
Full textMadelon, Véronique. "La médiacritique de masse : Analyse sémio-linguistique des métadiscours à prétention critique : (télévision, presse écrite, radio, Internet)." Besançon, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008BESA1021.
Full textThe Media are subject to numerous media coverage. Although it is not a recent phenomenon, it has increased over the past few years. After being discussed for outside, the Media are keen on selfcriticism. Criticism of the Media by the Media themselves should allow the addressee to distance oneself and give him the capacity to become critical. The hypothesis we suggest is that the Media don’t really criticize themselves. They only build an image of criticism. We took an interest in the metaspeech produced by the television program Arrêt sur Images. This program promises didactic, but only offers the beginnings and the criticism it offers is only partial, biased and normalized. The statements play on the representation of what critic should be and comforts the subject of the study, that is to say television, in its legitimacy in the role of a security valve. We then concentrated on three speeches supported by other mass Media : Big Bang Blog (internet); J'ai mes Sources (France Inter) and Lettre à Zélie (Télérama). Beyond the subject of their study and despite the differences related to the nature of their medium, mediacriticism can be recognized by its specific writing. The speaker plays on the complicity with the receiver, “making him believe”. The use of complicity engages a clutch that makes the receiver believe he/she is implicated in the statement. This one goes from the status of audience to the status of “assistant-participant”, actor of the statement. Therefore, mass Mediacriticism doesn't stimulate distancing oneself but makes believe in the legitimacy of the receiver
Fouquet, Arnauld. "Médias, représentations sociales et identifications nationales et européennes : études sur une population de chasseurs." Amiens, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008AMIE0021.
Full textCatuhe, Alexis. "Représentations, médiatisation et influences d’Ernesto « Che » Guevara en France de 1957 à 1974 : entre mythe et réalités." Thesis, Rennes 2, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016REN20028/document.
Full textLike the heroes of independence Simón Bolívar and José Martí during the first part of the 19th century, Ernesto Guevara left his mark on the second part of the 20th century. He also had a political, ideological, cultural and moral impact all around the world. Nowadays, we still find his portrait in the lead of the demonstrations and on the derivatives. What are the origins of Ernesto « Che » Guevara numerous posterities? This research offers to study his representations, his exposure and his influences in France from 1957 to 1974 in the press as well as among the intellectuals or the extreme left circles. In presenting the different French points of view of his texts and writings editors, of his first biographers, of the journalists and columnists, of the academics and intellectuals, of the witnesses and revolutionaries on Ernesto Guevara and on the Guevarism, we can better assess his impact during his lifetime and the first days after his death, from « Mai 1968 » to the decrease of the revolutionary and internationalist ideas in the early 70’s
Foster, Émilie. "Une analyse des perceptions citoyennes à l'égard du marketing politique : examen de l'hypothèse du « marketing malaise »." Doctoral thesis, Université Laval, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/30187.
Full textIn the last 30 years, political campaigns have been dictated by communication strategists who applied principles taken from commercial marketing. Meanwhile, main indicators of a democratic malaise started to appear. As a result, researchers started to wonder whether a new phenomenon, known as “marketing malaise” (Giasson et coll., 2012a; Savigny, 2008), could emerge from a possible link between the invasion of marketing strategies in politics and this democratic malaise. The objectives of this dissertation are twofold. First, it evaluates the theoretical plausibility of the marketing malaise hypothesis. Second, it proposes an empirical analysis which describes and explains the perception of citizens regarding political marketing practices and of its perceived impacts on democracy. We propose a marketing malaise theoretical framework based on existing theoretical studies conducted in political science that included the role of media. The analysis is built on a citizen perspective, using data gathered in eight focus groups. To this date, no previous research on marketing malaise used a qualitative and comprehensive approach to directly interview citizens on their knowledge level, their perceptions, and on the effects of political marketing on democracy. Although the marketing malaise theoretical model guides this research, the approach we use is mainly inductive. Three main research questions guide our work: 1) How are citizens perceiving democracy? 2) What are citizens’ levels of knowledge and their perception regarding media coverage of politics? 3) What are citizens’ levels of knowledge and their perception of political marketing? The analysis reveals that citizens are attached to democracy, as a political system, which they associated mainly with free elections and the protection of fundamental freedoms and civil rights. However, citizens share concerns regarding the health of democracy in Québec. Their main critics are directed at the “first past the post” electoral system, political parties and the perceived decline in turnout. Furthermore, the low level of trust in politicians nowadays compromises the optimism of participants. The main reason explaining the suspiciousness of citizens towards politicians are related to their perception that 1) politicians do not have the freedom to accomplish what they want because they are manipulated by political strategists, and 2) politicians are corrupted. Participants of our focus groups believe that media coverage is driven mainly by sensationalism which outlines first blunders and anecdotes. Those elements have a common trait: they are related to the “visible” campaign activities seen by the general public and to the various communication strategies deployed by the political parties (i.e. tactical marketing) to win elections. Citizens are very critical about the news media, which is perceived as a facilitator of deviant political behaviors as they do not cover main political issues. The last component of the dissertation investigates participants’ opinions about political marketing. It seems that the knowledge of political marketing by citizens is often limited and imprecise. However, citizens understand that politicians rely on opinion surveys to elaborate their strategies, target certain types of voters and use communication strategies that citizens often find misleading. The participants of the study strongly associate political marketing with its tactical aspects, which consist in elaborating and broadcasting a political message. Our analysis indicates a convergence between what citizens know about political marketing and about media coverage of politics. This highlights the central role the news media play in shaping public perceptions of politics. Therefore, the dissertation outlines that citizens should be better informed about the realities of political marketing by the media and that they should have access to better civic education. Furthermore, citizens have negative perceptions of political marketing, particularly those who show low political confidence level. They believe that political marketing is a tool that should be used for developing long-term relationship between parties and voters. We conclude our research by stating that the marketing malaise hypothesis is a plausible explanation of a democratic malaise. Future research should be oriented towards quantitative analyses aimed at validating the marketing malaise hypothesis.
Piar, Christophe. "La coproduction de l'actualité télévisée et son impact sur la formation des opinions des citoyens en campagne électorale." Paris 1, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009PA010304.
Full textBaranek, Clara. "Entre sphère publique et sphères privées : la défaite communicationnelle du parti communiste polonais, 1945-1989." Grenoble 3, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999GRE39002.
Full textLança, Isabel Babo. "La configuration des événements publics : l'affaire Rep'ublica et les manifestations aux Açores (Portugal, 1975)." Paris, EHESS, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001EHES0048.
Full textWard, Jeremy. "Les vaccins, les médias et la population : une sociologie de la communication et des représentations des risques." Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015USPCC035.
Full textThe identification of a A(H1N1) type of flu virus in 2009 prompted the French State to organize a national immunization campaign which generated several controversies. Discussion of the subject on pandemic vaccines' safety is distinctive because of its focus on the behavior and beliefs of "the French". Through interviews, media content analysis and a review of surveys on pandemic vaccination behavior, this dissertation sets out to understand how the subject of pandemic vaccines' safety emerged in the news. Ln addition to the study of interactions between the usual actors involved in public agenda-setting (public health authorities, social movement actors and journalists), this dissertation will show that the population played a central role in this process. This role is evident in the ambivalent representations of the population at the heart of these actor's communication strategies. They drew upon these representations when justifying their position on the subject. But, more importantly, opinion polis and other devices used to interrogate parts of the population played a crucial role in the valorization of this subject by these different actors. These devices turned the population into a full-blown actor in this agenda-setting mechanism. Consequently, the explanatory framework of this thesis will articulate perspectives originated in the sociology of public problems with those of the sociology of representations
Berthomier, Anne. "Discours médiatiques sur les biotechnologies en France (1970-1999)." Lyon, Ecole normale supérieure, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002ENSF0006.
Full textNiehaus, Grégoire. "Les représentations du Brésil en France Ou L'interaction de deux cultures à travers le prisme des médias." Montpellier 3, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009MON30041.
Full textThe contemporary occidental society in which we all move is a society influenced by the media. In this context, the predominance of images plays on social perceptions, stereotypes, and inevitably on our way of comprehending a culture. To wonder how Brazil is represented in France will enable us to list its perceptions and to study them in order to link together the media which transport them and their impact on the subsequent collective imagination. Televison, cinema, radio, associations are so many elements necessary to study as they contribute to the dissemination of Brazil's perceptions in France, characterizing it as being the country of music, danse, football, etc. . . This research draws a portrait of occidental society in which show business and consumption are in the heart of any event. Brazil is seen as an illustration (ou example) of such phenomena
Crabtree-Lelourec, Lesley Anne. "La perception anglaise de la question d'Irlande : enquête auprès de 39 habitants de Nottingham." Rennes 2, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006REN20024.
Full textThis thesis is based on 39 loosely-structured interviews carried out in the summer of 1999, just over one year after the signing of the Good Friday Agreement. It sets out to show the link between English people's lack of knowledge on Ireland and their perceptions of the Troubles. The aim of this study is to uncover the English perception of the Irish question. This perception is often measured only by opinion polls, which may give a superficial impression. Our hypothesis is that the English public reproduces the official version of the conflict conveyed by the British state: due to the absence of Ireland from the school curriculum and the lack of direct contact with Northern Ireland / Ireland and Irish people; the English public has no other sources, apart from the media, on which to form its perception. Our intention is to evaluate the element of irrationality in the construction of individual perceptions and public opinion
Bamba, Sidiki. "Presse écrite et émergence de l'espace public en Côte d'Ivoire : Entre idéal démocratique et propagande politique." Bordeaux 3, 2010. https://extranet.u-bordeaux-montaigne.fr/memoires/diffusion.php?nnt=2010BOR30003.
Full textThe advent of political pluralism in 1990 saw the rise of a private written press that established itself quite early as a central component of the democratic process. Given the conditions of its birth, this new press became an instrument in the hands of political parties in order to spread their ideologies. Hence, thanks to the private written press a new public sphere – in Habermas’ words – was brought to life. The development of the public sphere in Côte d’Ivoire will be subject to this particular context of emergence. The process of democratization underway in this country through the newspapers is implicitly marked by strong competitive identity stakes based on ethnic group, region and religion. Manipulated by the political parties either to takeover power or remain in force, these three ingredients have been fuelling stormy debates in the newspapers. As such, the written press can be considered as a cause of social dislocation. Moreover, the political culture that prevails in Côte d’Ivoire was forged in the mould of a one-party-system and is not enough permeated with democratic principles. Therefore, the many spheres of discussion existing all over the country were taken over by political parties and diverted from their essential aim: discuss freely of the societal problems so as to influence the political action. On the contrary, they have become places of political propaganda
Giroux, Claude. "La construction du discours sur la drogue dans la presse écrite québécoise, analyse exploratoire du contenu de quatre quotidiens québécois de juin 1997 à mai 1998." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0001/MQ44733.pdf.
Full textRabah, Saddek. "La problématique de l'autre : le discours médiatique sur l'islam transplanté en France : le cas de l'Express et du Nouvel Observateur." Paris 2, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997PA020008.
Full textThe present study has for object the media's discourse and its representation of transplanted islam in france. It has not the ambition to study all the media's production concerning this subject, but attempts only to account for the image of islam in france portrayed by a media actor - the weekly press and particularly l'express and le nouvel observateur. Through the analysis of the textual mass of the textual mass of the two weekly news papers, this study aims to stake out the determining mechanisms which structure and found the vision of this islam. In order to get to this purpose, it makes use of the content analysis's techniques, with its two slopes, quantitative and qualitative. The application of the enumerative (quantitative) aspect of this method on the sample has permitted the construction of two types of typologies: general and thematic. The first of these two typologies includes all that we have called symbols, classified according to their frequencual importance. As for the second, it is constructed on the thematic mode (classification by thematic appurtenance): it is made up of sixteen independent categories of different sizes. To refine the analysis and render the representation more intelligible, we have proceeded to make a qualitative analysis of certain themes ("salman rushdie affair", "scarf's affair", "woman in islam", the "concept of jihad", in order to seehow the argumentative strategy of the media's discourse spread out in the construction of the image of transplanted islam in france. In other words, how the different segments of texts and theirs statements are articulated to produce the image of islam in france. In sum, the study has permitted us to reveal that the two weekly news paper proceed often by anachronistic transposition, doubled with excessive reductionism resulting from the lack of knowledge, stereotypes and the thickness of history whose ascendancy over the minds is great, without forgetting the characteristics peculiar to any discourse of the media, which are often spectaculazisation and dramatization
Nogueira, Junior Dario de Azevedo. "L'interférence des mouvements sociaux dans l'ordre du jour des médiasLe cas du Mouvement des sans-terre au Brésil entre avril 1996 et avril 1997." Paris 2, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA020005.
Full textBernier-Duchaussoy, Maryse. "L'Ouganda du général Idi Amin Dada de 1971-1979 : une étude comparative des approches du London Times et du Guardian." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/67502.
Full textPapaioannou, Dimitri. "L'Histoire sociale des sondages d'opinion en Grèce : leurs usages politiques et journalistiques." Université Marc Bloch (Strasbourg) (1971-2008), 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006STR20025.
Full textBeginning in the mid-1970's, opinion polls were used systematically in Greece. Though it was one of many techniques politicians had at their disposal to measure public opinion at that time, it is now considered the only legitimate form of expression of what is called “public opinion “. Our research has two objectives: first, to determine what conditions allowed the use of polls to become pervasive throughout political and journalistic fields. Secondly, are there any practical effects on the functioning on the fields by the pervasive use of polls? If so, what are these effects and how do they affect the functioning of these fields?
Padilla, Villarreal Maria Beatriz. "Médiatisation et identification comme facteur dans l'irruption de la crise sociale : une analyse biculturelle de contenu de la presse écrite et modélisation." Lyon 3, 2005. https://scd-resnum.univ-lyon3.fr/out/theses/2005_out_padilla_m.pdf.
Full textOussi, Christian. "Pouvoirs et médias de masse : éthiques politiques et économiques." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012AIXM1007.
Full textThis thesis aims at defining the reciprocal unfluences‘berween mass medias and political and economical powers. The research concentrates on Arabs and Middle East Countries. To start we present 4 authors that have illustrated this in the litterature and 7th art. After that we put our attention to the evolution of different powers and communication tools in past history. Then we put our attention on the different constitutions defining the limit of political powers.But also to the mangement of mass information required in the framework of firms and various institutions showing how the manner things that are presented can influence the public, executives and shareholders. In an experimental part we report interwiews taken from a pannel of journalists. Also we show the frame of an inquiry devoted to business and political people as to their attitufe vs mass medias and power influences that they can have experienced
Golmakani, Jamshid. "L'image de l'Iran à travers la télévision française : 1978-94 : une étude comparative avec les télévisions anglaises et hollandaises." Paris 1, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA010549.
Full textThe author of this research is an Iranian documentary-journalist in exile. He gives an account of the contemporary history of Iran, and he studies how this issue is dealt with in reports, news programmes and documentary of over 13 minutes broadcast on French television between 1978 and 1994. This research underlines the cultural difference that gives to French people a privileged position in comparison with the countries less developing, in particular with Iranians, in the films broadcast on French television. All the films tend to define Iran as the epicentre of Islam, by showing images that shock. The Iranian population is shown only at the Friday prayer or in the Tehran cemetery. The eight years war between Iran and Irak has given the journalists-producers a good opportunity to evoke in their films the fanaticism of the Iranians. This research reveals some realities concerning this very bloody war hitherto unknown to the western public on. IL throws light on the main aspects of the French television production, especially on the way of dealing with informations on foreign countries. Such an image is not wholly false, but focusing on a single type of image one gives rises to a phenomenon of misinformation. This is a result of uniformisation and simplification. In the comparative study, we can see that the English en Dutch film on Iran have more various subjects and are based on extensive research, in contrast to the French production. They are critical in their approach to the Iranian regime
Chauvancy, François. "L'information, arme stratégique des démocraties : nécessite et légitimité d'une stratégie de communication." Paris 4, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1997PA040289.
Full textSince 1990, military conflicts in which a democracy such as France has been involved, have demonstrated the importance of information. Used by any individual or lobby in a frequent offensive strategy of communication, it has challenged the state freedom of action. This confrontation makes a major imbalance during an international crisis because it opposes, often by the intermediary of the Medias, the state and the different lobbies which form the national or international public opinions. In the inability to employ military force for imposing its decisions, the state must have the opportunity to have at its disposal other means for defending its national interests. The control of the information environment determines the success or the defeat of a chosen strategy. In this special situation of an international crisis, collection, use and control of information are the key elements for a democratic government strategy for reaching its goals. A strategy of communication is fundamental as soon as information is considered as strategic. It is strategic when it is used in the framework of a global political thought. The future of a democracy depends on its ability to defend its values in the frame imposed by the democratic rules. Then, a strategy of communication must provide its freedom of action in using more efficiently means which are more and more limited. This strategy of influence is a need and is justified to preserve the national ability to decide. The aim is to reach the political goals at a lower human and economical cost. Adapted to the international reality, a strategy of communication is a major tool to resolve the majority of the 21st century conflicts
Bou, Dagher Edmond. "La citoyenneté Libanaise aux prises avec les médias, nouveaux et traditionnels, face aux conflits religieux et communautaires ; une amplification ou une réduction des fractures ?" Thesis, Toulon, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018TOUL0001.
Full textThe title of our thesis is: “The Lebanese citizenship grappling with the new and traditional Medias, facing religious and community conflicts; amplifications or reductions of fractures?” Our thesis in the first place is a question asked about multiculturalism which constitutes the Lebanese society, specifies it, and represents sociocultural and sociopolitical wealth which interests the Information and Communication Sciences. The Audiovisual and Electronic Media (Web Sites, Electronic Newspapers, Internet Blogs, etc.) will be the source likely to feed all these cultural, political, economic, ethnic and religious faces.Since a long time, the Lebanese politically confessional reality is more or less impregnated by the traditional Media, and recently the new Media or Web Sites.The Lebanese structure of citizenship would be based in priority on four fundamental conditions: Community, Media, Citizen and State. The Lebanese Citizen belongs by nature to a community in which he is bound to others by bonds of religion which gives the Lebanese a particular feeling of identity. Thereby, the religious community, always seeks to defend itself and to express itself in order to preserve its existence and its continuity, and this is done by the Media: each community has its own media, which is its spokesperson. Thus, the community mediatized with all its rites and political-community convictions occupy the forefront of Lebanese concerns. While the principles of citizenships and state for a large number of Lebanese occupy the secondary rank.It is in this area that we will analyze during our research the contemporary face of public opinion possibly enlightened by the new technology of communication, the opinion mediatized as well as the politico-social vision presented by the daily newspapers
El-Bssawmaï, Sleiman Samir. "Al Jazira : entre le symbolisme et le professionnalisme : étude de l'état de la diffusion de l'information satellitaire arabe en continu." Paris 13, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA131017.
Full textThe first part of this thesis consists of an historical background to describe the creation of the Al Jazira Channel, and to show its improbable emergence. We, therefore place this channel in its geographical, political, social and journalistic context, by showing its differences from another working Arabic channels. We try to discover the reason of its happening, its revolution and the possibility that this phenomenon will lead to a patter of change in the Arab world. In the 2nd part, we analyze the performance of the mythological aspect of the channel, based on the glorious past of the Arabs, and how this myth gave a realistic energy to apply change. In a third section, we try to introduce to our readers the most important shows and journalists of Al Jazira, and how the information is dealt with
McCracken, Deirdra. "Le jeu des chiffres : les journalistes québécois sont-ils outillés pour traiter des sondages d'opinion publique ?" Thesis, Université Laval, 2009. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2009/26485/26485.pdf.
Full textGoulet, Vincent. "Usages et circulations des informations médiatiques dans les milieux populaires : enquête sur la construction des "lieux communs médiatiques"." Paris, EHESS, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009EHES0149.
Full textConsidering news as ordinary cultural goods, this research tries to understand their reception in the working class. The field of investigation is a popular district in the suburban area of Bordeaux. The circulation of news in the public space is studied through observations. Their uses in the private sphere are studied through interviews. It appears that the frequentation of media depends directly on the social and cultural capital that individual people have. It also depends on their social position and background. Children are also at the heart of the process of media reception. Secondly, we endeavour to understand why particular news, such as news in brief, sports, celebrity columns and some economic and social issues, are well-adjusted to popular interest. It seems that news is not only elements of knowledge allowing people to build their opinion or justify their action. News has at least three other functions: the accumulation and maintenance of relational capital, identity reinforcement, transmission and education through the affirmation of norms. The doxa function of news media is reaffirmed in the way they produce social representations that are taken for granted. This form of social framing is less the result of a conscious plan of the dominant class than the actual effect of the media field. This field is particularly heteronomous, because it is structured by the social interactions and the material and symbolic struggles which run through aIl society. As shown by the analyses of different news contents and of a popular radio talk show, the production of a " media common sense" is first explained by the relationships between classes
Cazeaux, Guillaume. "L’Internet et la formation de l’opinion." Thesis, Paris 5, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA05H021.
Full textThe thesis focuses on the effects of the Internet on democracy and the practice of citizenship in the context of a civilization marked by apathy, where television plays a central role. It is to question the relevance of deterministic theories that accord to new technologies of information and communication a significant power to transform the human is in the direction of emancipation, or in that of his alienation. The objective of the research is to produce the most realistic assessment of the impact of the Internet on our individual and collective autonomy.The thesis has three main stages: in the first, the concepts of public opinion, democracy and the role of traditional media are examined through their overt and latent functions, and reveal a constant tension between the human aspiration to the freedom and the need to conform. In the second time, are highlighted various possible effects of the web on citizens. According to their practices, we can clearly see emerge a partition between an active minority, on which the web has a major impact in his relation to the information and citizenship, and a more passive majority. In the third stage, we describe the activity of a citizen media, digital kind of utopia for active citizens.This thesis of philosophy also borrows from other disciplines such as history and sociology, and analyzes some specific and concrete phenomena online
Vancompernolle, Aline, and Aline Vancompernolle. "Nature des rapports de confiance ou du « contrat de communication » entre un usager et son média." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/37164.
Full textLes radios parlées conservatrices, nées aux États-Unis, ont servi de modèle aux radios d’opinion de Québec dans le but de capter une audience et la maintenir à l’écoute le plus longtemps possible. Ce modèle économique à succès, basé sur le spectacle et la provocation, compte de fidèles adeptes à Québec mais aussi des détracteurs qui les accusent de favoriser les divisions. Notre étude se penche sur le public de ces deux radios, CHOI Radio X et FM93. Nous avons cherché à établir, grâce à nos entretiens avec 16 auditeurs, la nature de la confiance qui les unit à leur station et à définir le type de contrat de communication qui se met en place, à savoir, le système relationnel basé sur des règles et des attentes réciproques entre les acteurs. Les recherches théoriques sur l’exposition sélective et le biais de confirmation, la confiance et le contrat de communication nous ont permis de formuler des propositions de recherche combinant l’adhésion forte des auditeurs au discours de la radio, leur grande fidélité, leur engagement fort et la confiance importante qu’ils ont dans la station qu’ils écoutent. Notre analyse nous a permis d’identifier trois profils d’auditeurs de ces radios qui montrent une prise de recul plus importante vis-à-vis du discours de la radio que ne le suggéraient les recherches.
Conservative talk radio, born in the US, served as a model for talk radio in Quebec City in order to capture the audience and maintain it as much as possible. This successful economic model, based on entertainment and provocation, has loyal listeners in Quebec City but also opponents accusing the radio of fostering divisions. Our study examines the public of the two most popular radio stations, CHOI Radio X and FM93. We aimed to draw up, thanks to our interviews with 16 listeners, the nature of trust uniting them with their station and to define the type of “communication contract”, which designates a relational system based on rules and reciprocal expectations between the actors. Theorical research on selective exposure and confirmation bias, trust and communication contract helped us to build research proposals combining audiences’ strong adhesion to the radios’ content, loyalty, strong engagement and great trust they have in the radio station they listen to. Our analysis led us to identify three profiles of listeners showing more distance toward the radio content than suggested by previous research.
Conservative talk radio, born in the US, served as a model for talk radio in Quebec City in order to capture the audience and maintain it as much as possible. This successful economic model, based on entertainment and provocation, has loyal listeners in Quebec City but also opponents accusing the radio of fostering divisions. Our study examines the public of the two most popular radio stations, CHOI Radio X and FM93. We aimed to draw up, thanks to our interviews with 16 listeners, the nature of trust uniting them with their station and to define the type of “communication contract”, which designates a relational system based on rules and reciprocal expectations between the actors. Theorical research on selective exposure and confirmation bias, trust and communication contract helped us to build research proposals combining audiences’ strong adhesion to the radios’ content, loyalty, strong engagement and great trust they have in the radio station they listen to. Our analysis led us to identify three profiles of listeners showing more distance toward the radio content than suggested by previous research.
Najjar, Emna. "La communication politique en Tunisie de 1987 à 2007. : Les rapports du discours politique, la presse écrite et l'opinion publique." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015USPCA064.
Full textThis thesis traces the self-evident and less obvious aspects of the process that led to the overthrow in Tunisia of th regime of President Ben Ali (November 7th 1987 - 14th 2011); it centers on the dynamics behind the conflict between the media and political apparatus and the civilian population. The uprising between December 2010 and January 2011 ended in the dismantling of Ben Ali's regime, due mainly to economic and political factors. This study highlights the failures that led to popular discontent. We center on a discursive viewpoint, observing and analysing the interaction between three components of the public space: the political, media, and citizen spheres. Throughout Ben Ali's rule of two decades, political power and the media blatantly collaborated so as to maintain the legitimacy of the President and his system. This pact also put aside citizen expression, rendering them mute, as they were reduced to an instrument of those in power. We then studied how they sought emancipation and to alter their limited role via a social psychology approach
Cagé, Julia. "Essays in the Political Economy of Information and Taxation." Paris, EHESS, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013EHES0112.
Full textWill an increase in competition in the market place for news and ideas lead to a better coverage of general information and an increase in political participation? There seems to [he a consensus that it will be the case in media economics. More media competition is usually seen as welfare improving. The goal of the first chapter of this dissertation (Media Competition and the Provision of Information) is to revisit this common wisdom. I investigate the consequences of an increase in the number of newspapers on the quantity and quality of news provided and, ultimately, changes in political participation. In the second chapter, joint with Dorothée Rouzet (Improving ''National Brands": Reputation for Quality and Export Promotion Policies), we study the effect of firm and country reputation on exports when buyers cannot observe quality prior to purchase. Firm-level demand is determined by expected quality, which depends on both past experience with the good and the country of origin's reputation for quality. In the third chapter (The Long-Term Effects of the Printing Press in sub-Saharan Africa), jointly with Valeria Rueda, I study the historical determinants of newspaper readership in sub-saharan Africa. Finally, in the last chapter (The Fiscal Cost of Trade Liberalization) joint with Lucie Gadenne, I study how trade liberalization affects developing countries tax revenues
CHANG, HONG. "L'opinion publique en alsace face a la construction de l'europe : 1945 a 1950." Université Marc Bloch (Strasbourg) (1971-2008), 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993STR20024.
Full textThe thesis is consecrated to the alsatian public opinion faced with the european integration from 1945 to 1950. Taking into account of the alsatian specific situation, it tries to define the evolution of this alsatian public opinion from the point of view of the various alsatian specific caracteristics. The choice of strasburg, capital of alsace, as the headquarter of the council of europe in february 1949 has given a new dimension to the alsatian public opinion toward the european integration. From that time, the european idea becomes one of the most important actualities in alsace. In the same time, the alsatian sense of identity considered as a positive factor for europe begins to be more and more debated in relation with the european integration. The study shows that the alsatian public opinion expresses its specific situation tied with its double culture and its troubled past due to historic vicissitudes between france and germany. It makes also sure the existence of a very favourable and original european idea in alsace during this period
Vivion, Maryline. "Habitus informationnel 2.0 : approche parentale et hésitation à la vaccination à l'ère d'Internet." Doctoral thesis, Université Laval, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/35420.
Full textMy doctoral thesis focuses on the information habitus transformation in the age of the Internet. Bourdieu defines the concept of habitus as a “[…] system of durable, transposable disposition which functions as the generative basis of structured, objectively unified practices” (Bourdieu quoted in Harker, 2000: 167). Using the concept of habitus, I explored how the Internet has modified how mothers access to, and make sense of, the wealth of information available, using the vaccine-hesitancy phenomenon as a case study. In Quebec, vaccination is not mandatory, and it is estimated that nearly one third of parents are vaccine hesitant. Vaccine-hesitant parents may choose to refuse vaccines for their children, to delay vaccination, or to follow the recommendations of health authorities despite significant fears and concerns. Some authors attributed vaccine hesitancy to the proliferation of negative information about vaccines on the Internet. Other studies indicated that vaccine-hesitant parents adhere to a specific parental approach, such as intensive mothering. In North America, many normative views co-exist, most of them put children’s needs as the priority. Mother’s involvement and dedication are perceived as essential to ensure their children’s development. These ideals place considerable pressure on new mothers who are forced to take numerous decisions regarding their children’s health and welfare. In this normative context, where searching and appraising information is highly valued, the Internet appears to be an unavoidable source of information for mothers. This thesis is based on the findings of an online ethnography conducted in 2015. Nonparticipant and participant observations on three online social media groups for mothers, 19 individual interviews with mothers, and media monitoring on the topic of vaccines were conducted. The results highlight the informational context of mothers and the tensions between health authority norms (such as the vaccine norm) and healthism ideology norms (such as questioning expert knowledge). This context, conveying contradictory norms, shapes the new information habitus. Furthermore, this normative context highlights the importance attributed to choice; choice has become the cornerstone of the information habitus. Choice is now the driving force of information-research practices, appropriation of information, as well as informational reflexivity which led to the construction to an individual lay knowledge that mothers can adapt to their needs and values. For example, vaccine-hesitant mothers can choose among recommended vaccinations or adapt the vaccine schedule to their own personal situation, without taking into consideration the public health recommendations and guidelines. For some mothers, the transformation of the informational habitus, with choice as the driving force, is essentially due to the desire to assert their maternal identity. Key-words: Informational habitus, lay knowledge, virtual community, intensive mothering, healthism, online ethnography.
Rouquet, Camille. "Les icônes du Vietnam et leur pouvoir : mécanismes de consécration des images photojournalistiques et rhétorique de l'influence des médias depuis la guerre du Vietnam." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017USPCC278.
Full textThis dissertation focuses on those press photographs from the Vietnam war considered to be “iconic”. In recenthistory, only about 30 or 40 photographs, whether documentary, art, or fashion images, have been consecrated as“icons”, a word that denotes their capacity to symbolize or embody various concepts. Among these images, fourhave surfaced from the visual archive of the Vietnam War. These icons are photojournalistic images whose contentwas considered shocking because of their sensational and graphic nature and which have appeared consistently inthe press since the end of the war and remediated in various artistic fields. Their fame has caused thehistoriographers of the Vietnam War and the public to think of them as influential objects; they have been credited with, or blamed for, turning public opinion against the war or for causing the ultimate defeat of American forces.This dissertation examines closely the relationship between “icon” and “influence” by way of a review of thehistoriography of the media during the Vietnam War and, afterwards, through its memorialization. Even thoughthe notion of influence is refuted by some experts in very precise and well-documented case studies, it remains anintegral part of the definition of photojournalistic icons of media content today. This essay exposes in detail theunique characteristics of the Vietnam icons and their progress in the press from the 1970s to the 2000s so as toexplain how these images have become representative of the influence theory, and to what extent media discoursehas contributed to educating the public by using icons. The aim of this essay is to show that icons have truly unique compositions and are fully meta-photojournalistic objects that testify to the media’s attachment to their adaptability and familiarity. The American public is no longer the only recipient of their symbolism ; icons—from Vietnam andfrom other contexts—have now reached an international status. Consequently, in contemporary times, icons contribute to problematizing and theorizing studies in visual culture
Kalinic, Anne. "L' argumentation au journal télévisé : la structuration du débat sur la crise des banlieues : étude comparative des chaînes TF1 et France 2." Paris 13, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PA131030.
Full textOur research aims to study argumentation in the TV news, from a body of broadcast reports and interviews concerning the suburban crisis occurred in November 2005. By choosing this event, we want to approach a case of controversy, negotiation and intervention in a political and social conflict through its treatment within the information media discourse, which means in a situation of communication characterized by constraints and strategies. The study compares the argumentation of the news aired on the channels TF1 and France 2 about three themes: the causes of the riots, the controversy about the curfew, and the calls to stop the violence. The components of argumentation (questioning, positioning, arguments) are analyzed by each speaker. After a quantitative study identifying the main lines of the speeches as their specific communicative aims, further we try to consider what are the specificities of the argumentation within the information media discourse, on what conditions does the commentary determine the imposition of the speech of an interviewed speaker, what are the types of confrontation between the different speakers, what are the different ethos of authority involved in the speech, and finally, what are the global topics represented by the commentaries, specifying the particular tendencies of every channel
Brown-Peroy, Amanda. "La franc-maçonnerie et la notion de secret dans l'Angleterre du XXe siècle : de la Seconde Guerre mondiale aux années 2000." Thesis, Bordeaux 3, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016BOR30039/document.
Full textThe goals of this fraternity have always intrigued, nay disturbed, many outsiders, for reasons which were linked to the historical context of the time : religious questions have always been in the forefront of the debate on freemasonry, from the XVIIIth century until the present day, although the debate has somehow slightly shifted. However, a feeling of uncertainty remains, fuelled by the masons themselves and the very nature of the fraternity, that is to say its secret aspect, or if not secret, at least very discreet. This trend is shared between all countries and across the centuries, but is a notion the masons of every Grand Lodge try to refute, arguing that, contrary to common belief, freemasonry is not a “secret society” but a “society with secrets”. The distinction is quite slim and is often lost on the profanes, those who are not initiated, who therefore often have a negative view, or are, to say the least, wary of this organization which keeps its secrets well hidden. One cannot discuss the secret nature of freemasonry without broaching on the corollary aspect it inevitably raises, that is to say anti-masonry and conspiracy theory, which appeared as early as the XVIIIth century, and regularly rise up to the surface. We shall study different cases underlining this conspiracy theory, related by the media, especially in the second half of the XXth century. This thesis will broach several themes related to the notion of secrecy : the position of women, religion, the press and the media in general, the stakes of World War II etc
Pac, Bertrand. "L'historique du quartier de la Défense et ses représentations dans la presse : l'évolution de la perception d'un grand quartier d'affaires." Thesis, Bordeaux 3, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016BOR30017/document.
Full textIt is between 1960 and the end of the 1980s that lies in France the great period of the architectural shift that gives birth to the La Défense business district. The history of this monumental “Ouest Parisien” planning operation seen by journalists reveals three stages in the evolution of this project which aims to establish the capital of a “French Manhattan”, or better three strong constituent states of opinion successive : one of enthusiasm which presided over the presentation by EPAD in 1964 of the first mass of the operation plan and its first achievements on the ground, that of doubt and contestation related to the turbulent history that has experienced during the 1970s this construction giant while embroiled in the turbulence of an economic crisis that threatens the future and disorder the final design, one of the undeniable accession to the success of a project that illustrated the erection in 1989 of the “Grande Arche of La Défense”. Know what journalists thought to understand the evolution of “La Défense” is the first reason for the historical investigation about this revolutionary urban district. But it is one second, because the story is not just a purveyor of the present ; it is also generator of representations which the impact play in conjunction with the objectively established event. And, as such, the study of “La Défense” as a historical phenomenon of crystallization of the opinion Press provides an example particularly net of the contribution as a pole of attraction as effective “La Défense” district provides to the contemporary history of urbanism. Thus, after describing the historical process revealed by the gaze of the press, the interpretation of the representations of the city new will be an opportunity to demonstrate that the achievement of “La Défense” headquarters was more concerned by the awareness of the event by the event itself as this operation was, by its very nature, a media phenomenon of the first magnitude
Renault-Monin, Magali. "Théodore Roosevelt, personnage de caricature : les moments clés de la satire politique." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015USPCA142/document.
Full textSeveral studies of the media coverage of Theodore Roosevelt’s personal, public and private life reveal that he attracted more media attention than many of his successors. The importance of the contribution of even the most caustic cartoonists to his enduring popularity for thirty years should not be underestimated. There are reasons to believe that no other president offered a more constant and delightful source of inspiration. The objective of this dissertation is to contextualize several cartooned images of Roosevelt within the growing awareness of the power of cartoons on public opinion. When combined with politics, humor becomes a tremendous tool for the spreading of official propaganda or of the opposition’s creed. We will therefore assess the characteristics of political humor during Roosevelt’s age and how it is distinct from other types of criticism of the establishment. We will first present a brief history of political cartoons in Europe and their rise in the United States, followed by a detailed assessment of the legacy of the famous cartoonist Thomas Nast, which represents a « defining moment » in the history of American political cartoons. This will be followed by an evaluation of their impact on Theodore Roosevelt’s political career by means of several case studies of decisive moments. The objective will be to determine whether there is a correlation between Roosevelt’s actions and his media image: mythical cowboy, politician with a national destiny, war hero, controversial chief executive