Contenu du sommaire : Religions et médias

This article makes a narratological analysis of a story broadcast on the Vietnamese TV newscast about the ceremony for the repatriation of the remains of a young Vietnam War combatant. Our aim is to test the hypothesis whereby the religious is not dissociated from the media space but rather inherently part of the mediatization as a powerful driving force of the construction of the common world in the perspective of ethno-nationalism.

This article condenses the results of research on a media/religious phenomenon of the charismatic catholic movement in Brazil, led by Father Robson de Oliveira. Mobilizing the abductive method, we present a set of inferences from the relevant pieces of evidence. These inferences refer to religious activism, to the configuration of the constructed media circuit and to the constitution of Father Robson as a charismatic leader, referenced in feedback media processes. In the transversal inferences, we seek to situate this phenomenon as part of the transformations of the religious phenomena driven and articulated with the media processes in Brazil.

This paper aims to study the satellite channel of Muslim Brotherhood (MB), Misr 25, in the period between its establishment in the post january 25 era and until it was shut down by Egyptian authorities in the Summer of 2013. The article is testing the hypothesis that Misr 25 channel, mixing two repertoires of enunciation, political and religious, became one of the tools for the political conflict of the Brotherhood with the other political forces. This was by giving a priority, especially during contentious periods, to legitimize, communicate and mobilize the own camp of the FM. This hypothesis is studied through an analysis of the management of the channel, as experienced by its actors, including the involvement of the high authorities of the Brotherhood in its editorial line, as well as an analysis of some of its TV shows. The paper examines three major phases : The first starts with the birth of the channel in the aftermath of the revolution and ends with the period of presidential elections which marked the end of the tacit alliance between the Supreme Council of Armed Forces (SCAF) and the MB. The second phase startes from the election of Mohamed Morsi as president in June 2012 marking a tentative short period of pacification with other forces and ends with the beginning of tensions between the MB and other secular (liberal/left) forces. While the final phase is mainely focusing on these months of struggle between the ruling MB and the implicit coalition against them, including revolutionaries and former oligarchs of the deposed Mubarak regime, especially between November 2012 and the Morsi ouster in July 2013.

In the aftermath of the civil war (1975-1990), the Lebanese audio-visual landscape was reshaped in a political-sectarian way. Despite this partition, television channels do not consider themselves to be spokespersons for “their” respective communities. However, the religious topic (whether it be social or dogmatic) is given a prominent position in certain programs. This article proposes the analysis of this topic in the news bulletins of four private channels (Al-Jadeed, Murr TV, Future TV and Al-Manar) during a recent period (December 2015-January 2016), by focusing on the sources of religious enunciations as well as on their content. We will try to examine to what extent Lebanese channels manage to mitigate their sectarian and religious belonging in a genre where the expectations of credibility and rigor are notably high (news bulletins).

This article focuses on the transnational mediatic war between the Portuguese TV channel Televisão Independente (TVI), national audience leader, and the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (IURD), the most important Brazilian neo-Pentecostal evangelical institution in Portugal. By taking the videos produced by these institutions as our object of study, we develop a dialectical analysis of words and images that have configured this audio-visual war of information. More precisely, we study the journalistic forms and logics of IURD's crisis communication, which raises questions about the manipulation of the concept of fake news and conspiracy/complot theories.

The eruption of religious communication in the media stage seems to be one of the major phenomena of recent decades in sub-Saharan Africa. Religious groups not only have created many radio and television stations, but they also make extensive use of non-religious media. The latter do not hesitate to put more of religious content in their programs. This situation reveals a specific relationship between media and religions. However, what explains this kind of link? What is it based on? These are the questions that this article attempts to answer. Assuming that the context in which their meeting took place is the foundation of the good relationship between two systems, the article discusses the link between media democratization and the popularization of religious awakening, a concomitant phenomenon of the early 1990s.

This paper wants to highlight how the question of the religious sensibilities (Favret-Saada) is carried out in the public debate through the broadcasting of a TV series featuring the French Roman Catholic Church (Ainsi soient-ils). The diversity and the heterogeneity of the actors (devoted ones) –mandated or not– summoned by the media seem to have imposed a singular treatment of this TV series, corroborated by the evolution of the media discourse between the broadcasting of the first and the last two seasons. The analysis shows the opposite of what assert the devoted spokespersons: this wounded religious feeling is far from being shared inside the Institution as in the Christian Catholic community. The rhetoric did not polarize the public opinion but rather the French Church. Thus, this work testifies how media is concerned by and handle such a topic and goes through an understanding of the relations between media and religious discourse.

The Newspaper Le Monde has no column entitled « Religions », and therefore religious facts are divided into different sections : which ones ? and what are the consequences on the meaning ? This questions are analyzed through a corpus, collected during one year (February 2013 to February 2014), that is from Benedict XVI's resignation to the election of his successor. However, no religion is mentioned more than another. The number of articles is equally divided between Christianity, Islam and secularism. Religions are understood through a political frame, and politics is reasoned through a Jacobin prism. These observations question the presuppositions of the choice of rubrics.

My contribution aims at exploring how the representatives of the Vatican institution globally use their media (press, radio, television, and web) after the institutionalization of the Secretariat for Communication (2015) which was prescribed to coordinate and modernize the media entities of the Institution. My work focuses on strategic planning from the observation of current media and technological logic (operation of the communication system, the role of digital content…). It will be a question of finding out how these actors participate in building an ethos, devise a socio-discursive stance in the world of media debates favoring, inter alia, the promotion of paradoxical discourses on Catholic religion itself as well as on the institution and its members by appropriating new media devices. It appears that the media operators allow a new vision of the Catholic religion itself, as well as the institution and its members, in particular by favoring the recruitment of media professionals, positions that, up till now, were mainly held by clerics. Therefore, reconciling the dissemination of the Christian message with openness to society seems to be the key role of the Vatican's media whose objective is to ensure a Catholic presence in the media landscape so as to enter into dialogue with society. This communication approach conducive to nurturing a close link with the Catholic community meets the expectations of a diversified public, so much so that this angle of openness makes it possible to increase the number of recipients far beyond the circle of Christians through an appropriation of messages via mass communication devices such as social networks.

Radio Ici et Maintenant is a New Age radio station dealing with the “democratization” of religion. In this new religious market where people have more freedom with religious goods, this radio seems to be a daily social and spiritual guide to help listeners find their way : a “Radio Church” here and now.

This work is a sketch of several doctoral studies in Sciences of the information and communication handling the question of the territorial intelligence. Zones dry, fragile and threatened in Tunisia are anchored in a specific context, worth knowing. Within the framework of a valuation of these territories, the questions of public and territorial communication are coupled with methodological questioning. The choice of the devices of territorial intelligence takes place by the institutional and not institutional actors who have for objective to define the identical elements. So, the practices of territorial intelligence include environmental surveillance, the protection of the natural, material and immaterial heritage, the strengthening of exchanges between actors and the promotion of the communication. The researches adopt a double logic; a logic of communication, production and appropriation of knowledge and a (critical) logic of instrumentalization of the devices of territorial intelligence and the practices of valuation. That's why this text mobilizes multidisciplinary approaches around the use and the technology appropriation, on one the hand and around the participation of the actors in the territorial development, on the other hand.

With dozens of daily tweets, organizations are particularly numerous to use Twitter. That is why, thousands of publications are being accumulated on the social network. In this article, we wondered about the potential reputational impacts of these tweets. To this end, we have studied them with regard to the notion of digital trace that can be interpreted, decontextualized, or even deformed arbitrarily and asynchronously. Through the analysis of a corpus of 982 tweets, we identified four particular elements: hashtag, identification, Internet link and illustration. A study of these elements in relation to our synthetic table of the digital trace has shown that tweets are effectively digital traces. This has highlighted the importance for organizations to consider their communicational practice on Twitter according to a long-term logic.

More than 18 million players! In 2016, Clash Royale became one of the most popular free-to-play video games on mobile devices (tablets, smartphones, etc.). Compared to its competitors who have adopted a similar business model, it does not appear to have any intrusive or blocking gameplay mechanics. On the contrary, it is playful, unifying and immersive. This article shows that a more insidious mechanism is indeed present in Clash Royale, based on a paradox which incites a player, as they progress in the games, to feel both prompted to play, and then suddenly inhibited! Through an increasing social pressure, based on a strong hierarchical clan structure and a system of communication that permits or facilitates mockery, players may find themselves locked up in a "prisoner's dilemma", with the only escape route of gambling (to regain self-confidence by slowing up their time), or else the purchase of optional bonuses in order to become more competitive. To this end, video game brings and enters into a new dimension where the community can lead you to your own loss. Let's enter the arena!

There is already lot of studies about film adaptations (in narratologie, marketing or law), but very little talk about the reception of film adaptations. The present article wants to study the point of view of the student public. The result rely on 330 questionnaires and around twelve interviews.

In France, investigations on gender in Communication studies have recently developed, but what about gender research in other continents? What contribution has gender made to research devoted to communication studies in other countries? This article is a brief exploration of works made in France and Latin America, allowing us to shed light on similarities and differences in terms of approaches and concepts developed.