The international vocation of the media and its geostrategic impact ; LA VOCATION INTERNATIONALE DES MEDIAS ET SON INCIDENCE GEOSTRATEGIQUE
The context and the conditions under which the media phenomenon has grown so swiftly on a worldwide basis have been analyzed throughout this thesis. On one hand by the study of international information media, on the other by the study of the financial stakes which transformed the communication industry into a powerful actor of the global economy. This major implication of the media in the international system gave rise to the emergence of a worldwide public opinion being now targeted by operations of influence destined to orient hearts and minds with specific contents. Furthermore, States' actions and reactions facing a media phenomenon, now fully part of international relations, and regardless of classical concepts of sovereignty, have been studied in this work. States themselves used media as a propaganda tool to emphasize their ideologies and policies. Besides, the growing involvement of media in military conflicts, as witnesses or now as direct and indirect actors of these wars, has been established. As a result, is the geostrategic impact due to global use of media likely to generate a growing weakness of States facing relentless flows of information especially since legal, economical and technical aspects have favored this situation? This apparent weakening of States generated reactions, some of which are particularly anti-democratic, but others more constructive and willing to contribute in the diffusion of human thought and in the progress of human societies in the globalization context. ; Dans cette thèse ont été analysées les conditions et le contexte de la progression mondiale du phénomène médiatique, d'une part par l'étude des médias d'information à vocation internationale, mais aussi par l'étude des enjeux financiers qui ont transformé l'industrie de la communication en un acteur très puissant de l'économie globale. Cette implication majeure de la chose médiatique dans le système international a donné lieu à l'émergence d'une véritable opinion publique mondiale devenue le théâtre d'entreprises ...