An Improbable Media Coverage? Shutdown of a Rural Factory and Journalistic Interests
- By Olivier Baisnée
- and Frédéric Nicolas
Pages 89 to 107
Cite this article
- BAISNÉE, Olivier
- and NICOLAS, Frédéric,
- Baisnée, Olivier.
- et al.
- Baisnée, O.
- and Nicolas, F.
https://doi.org/10.4000/mots.22976
Cite this article
- Baisnée, O.
- and Nicolas, F.
- Baisnée, Olivier.
- et al.
- BAISNÉE, Olivier
- and NICOLAS, Frédéric,
https://doi.org/10.4000/mots.22976
Based on a collective ethnographic fieldwork and on the quantitative analysis of 1,855 news articles, this paper focuses on the shutdown of a factory and the mobilization that followed. Known as “Les Molex”, the employees of the factory have been depicted as symbols of the 2008 economic crisis even though the closing of the factory was not linked to the economic situation at the time. We particularly concentrate on the successful yet unlikely mediatisation of the conflict by shedding a light on the day-to-day contingencies of a social conflict and of the production of information.
- mediatisation
- factory closing
- mobilisation
- practical know-how
Publisher keywords: factory closing, mediatisation, mobilisation, practical know-how