Le journaliste citoyen contre le citoyen universitaire : la citoyenneté à l’ère du cyberespace

Abstract

The revolutionary discoveries in communication technologies, that have ushered in a new era of news/ knowledge collection and distribution in the Anglo-Saxon societies, are problematic and questionable as they have triggered unprecedented transformations in such (presumably not related) concepts as citizenship. The aim of this article is to argue that the emergence of new types of citizens tells of the irreversible decline in the inherited values of media and academia. Given the suggested comparative perspective, the structure of the paper takes it from the (near) death of professional journalism and traditional university through the emergence of a new generation of citizens and the wishful thinking that ordinarily accompanies it to end with the less publicised fact that it is another world being lost.