Transformation de la visibilité

Abstract

The proliferation of forms of distance communication not only generates increasingly large flows of information, it is also responsible for a more fundamental transformation of political and social life and the modalities of interaction. The author focuses on changes in regimes of visibility induced by new media. Because it is deterritorialized, mediated interaction is also less easy to control. The actors concerned no longer have the resources that accompany interaction in situations of co-presence. The study of the phenomenon of political scandals shows that political actors can less easily than in the past rely on the distinction between that which is private and must therefore remain hidden and that which is "public" and can be revealed.