“Tous journalistes”! Les professionnels de l’information face a un mythe des nouvelles technologies

Abstract

The ideology of transparency and liberty of expression without any limits, created by the digital convergence of electronic supports, has constructed the myth of “we are all journalists”. And this myth is sustained by many illusions cherished by the behaviours of social, political and economical actors, but also by every one participating in this belief. With the online Medias and the citizen initiatives in the “information society” each person can attest “I’m a journalist!” Is the transformation of the mass media activities meaning disappearing of journalists? Obviously however, in comparison with the social functions of the journalists in the society through the historical Medias, “the sum of blogs does not make a new public space”! The Web is not the exclusive future of the news. In the environment of the mutation of the information and communication technologies, the new or outlaw practices are numerous to heckle the journalist as professionals of information in a social and democratic system. But the future of the journalists who are fully participating at all the debates of society could not be restricted in the closed field of the social partners.