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 «INA Penser les médias» (thinking the media) Series
By Antoine Spire
Who could deny the influence of the media onto our daily life ?
The television, the radio, the newspapers, books, films but also the Internet and mobile phones have almost become prostheses of our relation to the world.
Despite the unstoppable rise of technologies this one is being experienced differently according to people’s social backgrounds. The fascination for the media, the appropriation of its contents, the identification to media-heroes but also the rejection of an excessive media coverage take all sorts of aspects, depending on where you are placed in the social hierarchy.
How can the tranformation of the media offer be appraised ? What can be said about the social use of incredibly fast expanding technologies ? What kind of social images emerge from the media maelstrom ? Does our way of life change as fast as the media landscape ? Do we know more than yesterday, less than tomorrow ? What type of dialogue does it create with others ?
These are the fields that the “Penser les médias” series aspire to explore.
The Ina
With these series the INA contributes fully to the transmission of a body of knowledge about the media - an organized, built up and verifiable body of knowledge - thanks to French Inathèque’s audiovisual source made available. The INA is the first world bank of digitised archives. It collects, safeguards, restores and broadcasts to a various audience the radio and television archives. The INA is also a research laboratory and the leading European centre for audiovisual and multimedia skills. Lastly, INA shoots documentary films and displays a policy for promoting culture and education.
 Antoine Spire is a journalist who runs debate and science programs on Ile-de-France local television (CINAPS TV). He coordinator cultural encounters such as the “Printemps du Livre de Cassis” (Cassis Spring Book Festival) or the “Semaine de la science de Saint Michel sur Orge” (Saint Michel sur Orge Science Week). Alongside Michel Onfray he is a lecturer at Caen’s Université Populaire (Caen’s folk high school). From 1980 to 1999 he was in charge of French radio France Culture programs. He wrote Dieu aime-t-il les malades ? with Nicolas Martin (Anne Carrière, 2004) which won an award in 2005. www.antoinespire.com
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