Le journalisme à l'épreuve des réseaux : étude de l'utilisation des blogs au sein des pratiques journalistiques

The present thesis analyses the use of blogs by professional journalists in francophone Belgium. It exposes the reasons and logics of the incorporation and legitimization of blogs as professional tools inside the journalism sector. The central question of this sociological research is the following : does journalistic blogging constitute a mere transposition of the journalistic work to an additional medium, or does it lead specific types of practices inside the field of journalism ? In this thesis, it appears that the main values of blogging (autonomy, transparency and participation) are also defended by journalists-bloggers. The thesis shows how these journalists-bloggers intend to combine the ideology of professional journalism with the values of the "network society".