Contenu du sommaire : Informer sous algorithmes

In the context of platformization of journalistic content, a standardization of media's online community management practices is emerging in response to the commoditization demands of content on different digital platforms. Based on a qualitative-quantitative data collection conducted between 2020 and 2021 on the Facebook and Instagram pages of 34 Quebec organizations, including six media outlets, we propose to describe the emergence of writing that seems to respond to the imperatives of capturing the attention of the platforms' audiences, or clickbait, more than to journalistic imperatives of information dissemination.

Journalistic writing on the web today is forced to comply with new formats in order to submit to Google's “diktats” prescribing editorial standards in order to enhance articles' visibility. In this paper, we discuss the writing practices concerning all headlines, and the way in which these practices are received by journalists. Based on several interviews conducted between 2019 and 2022 with La Croix editorial professionals, we underline the dilemmas faced by journalists every day to pursue their informative mission as they are advised by SEO specialists whose recommendations come after editorial concerns. Nevertheless, referencing habits / practices suffuse the editorial staff, which is also looking for alternatives to the race for flow, visibility and traffic on their sites to retain readers and gain new subscriptions.

The aim of the article is to grasp some of the semiotic mechanisms of the confrontation between journalistic and editorial practices, and the capitalist functioning of the GAFAM. The paper analyzes the future of the journalistic text in a digital regime with a focus on the particular case of the site BFMTV.com and its editorial staff, then within it, an other focus on the composition of the titles, subjected to multiple transformations due to their circulation on supports which are just as diverse.

By combining traditional practices and the codes of TikTok, the media on Tik
Tok provide journalistic news targeting in particular the so-called « Generation Z ». Short and often playful videos represent a new journalistic discourse that links journalistic information to TikTok culture. With the emergence of journalism on TikTok, the media have to negotiate and justify their authority on this digital social network and have to explain how journalism works. Journalists on TikTok are thus also providing media education, by showing the settings of journalism or by justifying that the newspapers deserve to be certified. The media adapt the content and the nature of their videos to TikTok, for example, by participating in viral trends, by publishing videos that affect the lives of young Internet users, or by telling the information with a humorous angle. Through various ways of interaction, the media manage to include Internet users in the news production and to show the media community.

Based on the controversies about the literary awards that N. K. Jemisin received in the 2010s, this article shows how science fiction had been the object of competing political investments in the USA. N.K. Jemisin, who claims to be a progressive writer, had to face, like other North American authors, a protest movement defending a ‘depoliticised' definition of science fiction as a literary genre.