Books & ideas

Hyperincarcerated

Adèle Momméja — 2017-11-06T08:00:00Z

Can journalism advance knowledge in the field of social science? Two investigations published by the New York Times have highlighted racial inequalities and their links to prison. By contrast, these rigorous investigations emphasize the lack of knowledge of this situation in the French context.

Why Financial Crises Give Birth to Legends

Nathan Marcus — 2012-08-31T07:18:00Z

In our haste to explain away the 2008 crisis, we have tended to put all the blame on bankers and regulators. This simplification, while soothing, might be just as misguided as Germans' or Austrians' tendency in the 1920s and 1930s to put the blame on France and Britain for their economic difficulties, or later for World War Two. Crises are the stuff of legend, but we should find other ways to cope with them.

Reconstructing Citizenship for the Twenty-first Century

Thomas Grillot & Jean-Claude Monod — 2012-03-05T07:35:19Z

A world-famous legal scholar, Bruce Ackerman wants to reinvigorate citizenship in today's democracies. Here, he reexamines the intellectual foundations of his work, and some of the pragmatic applications he designed with others. His principle is to always consider how the state intervenes in the autobiography of every man.

Investigating China

Nolwenn Salmon — 2011-12-13T07:32:00Z

In authoritarian China, control of the media exists, but so does control by the media. Two recent books explain how the government has strategically allowed investigative journalism to flourish, strengthened by the market and the expectations of the Chinese population.

‘Hacker' Journalism - A New Utopia for the Press?

Sylvain Parasie — 2011-10-14T07:44:00Z

This article explains why and how self-taught computer programmers, web entrepreneurs, web project managers, programmers from free software communities and open data militants alike have all become interested in journalism, despite the economic crisis that the press seems to be facing the world over.

Monitoring Changes in China's Media

Émilie Frenkiel — 2011-09-30T08:12:00Z

David Bandurski explains that, despite the ongoing control of the Party, the Chinese media and their relationship to their audience have greatly changed thanks to the growing commercialization of the media, professionalism of journalists and the rise of the Internet and social media.