Une théorie pour penser les industries culturelles et informationnelles ?

• Main Author: Pierre Mœglin
• Format: Article
• Language: fra
• Published: Société Française de Sciences de l’Information et de la Communication 2012-09-01
• Series: Revue Française des Sciences de l’Information et de la Communication
• Subjects: critical theory; cultural and informational industries; frankfurt school; political economy of communications; theory of cultural and informational industries
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/rfsic/130

This paper deals with the birth and development of the cultural and informational industries theory. It arises from two questions. First, why one unified theory, rather than juxtaposing the different attempts to understand these industries step by step and sector by sector ? Second, why a specific theory, instead of borrowing from economy or sociology, for instance ? The answer is on the one hand that the contradictions among researchers about the issues of the cultural and informational industries demonstrate in themselves the dialectical nature of their development ; on the other hand, that the specificity of these industries requires an analysis model quite different from the standard model.