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Power : a concept for information and communication sciences /

A polymorphous concept, power has imposed itself since ancient times. Whether it characterizes the phenomena of domination, exclusion or voluntary submission, it illuminates social relations and, since the 20th Century, interpersonal relations. This book offers, first of all, a daring panorama throu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dupont, Olivier (Author)
Other Authors: Carley, Mary (Translator)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London, UK : ISTE Editions, 2019.
Series:Collection Management des connaissances. Série Des concepts pour penser la société du XXIe siècle. volume 2.
Subjects:
Power (Social sciences)
Communication > Social aspects.
Sociolinguistics.
Information society.
Mass media > Social aspects.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1 Epistemological Foundations p. 1
  • Chapter 1 Political Power, Institutions and Socio-economic Organizations p. 5
  • 1.1 Explanations of the emergence of political power p. 5
  • 1.2 The State, the achieved form of political power p. 6
  • 1.3 The State as outdated form of political power: the new social powers p. 10
  • 1.3.1 The relationships between economic power and political power p. 10
  • 1.3.2 Displacement of the capacity for action from the State to multinational corporations? p. 12
  • 1.3.3 Technological proliferation and organizational mutations: the emergence of new powers? p. 13
  • 1.3.4 The emergence of a fourth power through the development of new collective, discursive and decisional spaces: the media? p. 17
  • Chapter 2 Subjective and Intersubjective Power p. 21
  • 2.1 The concept of relational power, a concept of subject or subjects? p. 21
  • 2.2 Interactions, translations and exchanges: locations, situations and manifestations of relational power p. 24
  • 2.3 A desirous subject driving a relational power p. 28
  • Chapter 3 Discursive Power: Words, Languages, Controls and Arguments p. 35
  • 3.1 The active power of language in and of itself p. 35
  • 3.1.1 The efficacy of words p. 36
  • 3.1.2 Terminological mastery and the power of knowledge p. 37
  • 3.2 The power of language in operation p. 39
  • 3.2.1 Performative speech acts? p. 39
  • 3.2.2 The construction of discourse within rhetoric p. 41
  • 3.3 The predominance of social frameworks in the exercise of linguistic power p. 43
  • 3.3.1 The control of language and the resulting conflict p. 43
  • 3.3.2 Linguistic competence, an instrument of social reproduction p. 45
  • 3.4 The symbolic and analogic power of language: acting on the imagination, feelings and desire p. 47
  • Part 2 Mobilizing the Concept of Power in ICS p. 53
  • Chapter 4 Linguistic Power in ICS p. 57
  • 4.1 Authority figures p. 58
  • 4.1.1 The genesis of the concept of the figure p. 58
  • 4.1.2 The power of the authority figure p. 58
  • 4.2 The circulation of epic stories and the instrumentalization of metaphors p. 63
  • 4.2.1 Stories and the construction of representations p. 63
  • 4.2.2 Metaphors, invocation, and naturalization p. 66
  • 4.3 The stimulation of desire, the manipulation of self-esteem, and the instrumentalization of identities p. 67
  • 4.3.1 Individual identity: recognition and instrumentalization of the relation to the self p. 68
  • 4.3.2 Collective identity: the manipulation of the desire to belong p. 72
  • 4.4 The concealment or even prohibition of alternative language p. 75
  • 4.4.1 The dominance of authorized language p. 75
  • 4.4.2 Naturalization and unthought p. 80
  • 4.4.3 The control of discursive spaces p. 81
  • 4.5 The fields and spaces for the exercise of communicational influence p. 83
  • 4.5.1 The marketing approach in light of the publicness principle p. 84
  • 4.5.2 The manipulation and influence of actors in organizations p. 90
  • Chapter 5 Power, Society, and Developments in ICT p. 99
  • 5.1 The emergence of the information society p. 100
  • 5.1.1 Are digital technologies the foundation for the construction of the information society? p. 101
  • 5.1.2 The exercise of the discursive power connected to the expression information society p. 105
  • 5.2 Reinforcement of established power and social control or relocation of power? p. 107
  • 5.2.1 New potential for control p. 108
  • 5.2.2 A new space for counter-power? p. 109
  • 5.2.3 Reinforcement of established power or new ways of exercising power? p. 114
  • 5.2.4 Conclusion: a digital society of control? p. 118
  • 5.3 The rationalization of information and communication, a contemporary expression of power? p. 119
  • 5.3.1 Emergence and instrumentalization of the symbolic aspects of communication p. 120
  • 5.3.2 Are normalizations and cognitive rationalization more effective than symbolic rationalization? p. 124
  • Chapter 6 Media Power p. 129
  • 6.1 Extensions of the debate: does media power have powerful effects or limited effects? p. 131
  • 6.1.1 Autonomous receivers/passive receivers p. 131
  • 6.1.2 Influence rather than media power p. 133
  • 6.1.3 Media: the strength of counter-power? p. 134
  • 6.1.4 A relational rather than a political power p. 136
  • 6.2 The power of journalists? p. 138
  • 6.2.1 The key position of journalist(s) p. 138
  • 6.2.2 Journalists caught up in power relations p. 141
  • 6.2.3 A systemic power imposed on journalists? p. 144
  • 6.3 The media: between symbolic, political, and economic powers p. 145
  • 6.3.1 The way the media distributes and favors certain representations p. 145
  • 6.3.2 Concentration and economic power as an explanation of sociopolitical actions by the media p. 148
  • 6.3.3 New media: new forms of power p. 151
  • 6.4 The power of the image and the power of image distribution media p. 153
  • 6.4.1 The relationship between text and image p. 154
  • 6.4.2 The inherent power of the image p. 157
  • 6.4.3 The social power and counter-power of images p. 161.