Médiacratie

The Médiacratie (of media and kratos “power”, “sovereignty”) is supposed to describe a political regime or a Organization Sociale where the Médias would hold the capacity. It is thus about the capacity which television, the newspapers, the Internet and the other media can exert on certain populations.

This new expression, of polemical nature, submitted a report with an interpretation of the political economy of the media:

  • the concentration of the capital and the universalization of the economies created a new total order for the communication. The arrival of new groups of media, or rather the concentration of those creates stakes sociopolitic important in particular for the governments. The market can thus slow down freedom of expression. A balance seems to have to be required for example on the level of the decision makers of the European Union, between economic freedom and cultural safeguarding.

The political economy of the media thus brings a debate on the topic of the " cultural sovereignty of the nations". Which are the strategies necessary for not " marchander" its culture and to keep a competitive potential on the global market? On do another side the nations have to impose their culture? The governments must as much consolidate their public inheritance and diversify to reach the needs for the consuming citizens. The border of being able between the policies and the media seems increasingly fuzzy with some, which go until advancing that complicities policy-media could let accept a " néo-totalitarisme".

The debate loses in fact more and more its topicality now that each one can become itself media, with the development of the Internet. This profusion of the information sources and the interactivity between users result in a decline of the audience and assistantship of the traditional mediums. The concentration is thus especially explained by the challenge of profitability why this sector must face.

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