The Making of Public Space : News, Events and Opinions in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)

Acknowledgments


Introduction
News as a global culture
The corpuses of data on which this work has focused?
The empirical analysis of the politicization and formation of ‘opinions’
Crowds, masses, networks
Democracy as it is


I?
Being immersed in the news


Chapter 1. The presence and periodization of the inaccessible
The consistency of the Now
Knowing by experience or by hearsay
The accessible and the inaccessible
What news in which history?
Time’s arrow
Some problems of historical periodization
The formation of planes of news items
The news in the eyes of its critics (1): inauthenticity
The news in the eyes of its critics (2): fake democracy


Chapter 2. The process of the event
News, History and the need to select??
Selection and censorship
The truth of facts, the adequacy of interpretations
Trouble with events
The coalescence of facts in the plane of news items???
The de-composition and deconstruction of events
Precedents
Primary facts and derived facts: the worth and force of an event
Political facts as a series


Document 1. History (with a capital H) and history
Chapter 3. Political events and the formation of generations
The salience of events
Break or continuity: a question of scale
At what scale does Le Monde view the world (le monde)? The obituary test
Breaks in institutional continuity
The role of major political events in the formation of generations
Structural collectives and generational collectives
‘Our generation!’
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II
Politicization


Document 2. Plot


Chapter 4. Political discussion
Conversation or discussion
The risks of political discussion


Document 3. Medias


Chapter 5. Le Monde and its readers: between news and History
Le Monde as a news organ and quasi-institution
Le Monde and History
Journalists and their readers


Document 4. Censured


Chapter 6. The structure of comments on the news


Pre-texts and comments
The constraints on utterance
Contesting the truth of the facts: the 11 September 2001 attacks, with comments made on INA Societe
Discussion, moderation and commercial censorship?
Commenting is not denouncing
The irony of the commentators


Document 5. What are their names?



Chapter 7. The work of ‘one’
The intense pleasure of comment
States of mind
Anonymity and mishmash
The ‘one’ of the news



Document 6. Readers’ replies


Chapter 8. Politicizing the news
What are they thinking of?
What is a political problem?
The process of politicization
Medically assisted procreation, from the non-political to politics
Political shifts
Talking about Islam
Different shifts in the notion of environmentalism
When politics proves to be ‘inextricable’

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Document 7. ‘Generations’


Chapter 9. The dynamics of politicization
Shifting positions and generation conflicts
Political problems and ideologies
Threats and remedies
Feeding into politicization


Document 8. ‘Democracy’


Conclusion. The meaning of History
Interpretation: between adequacy and violence
‘On the right’ or ‘on the left’: the political description of interpretations
Towards the extreme
Politics and desolation
The digitalization of struggles


Appendices


Conceptual lexicon
Bibliography
Notes
Index