Power : A Concept for Information and Communication Sciences.

Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART 1. Epistemological Foundations -- Introduction to Part 1 -- 1. Political Power, Institutions and Socio-economic Organizations -- 1.1. Explanations of the emergence of political power -- 1.2. The State, the achieved form of political power -- 1.3. The State as outdated form of political power: the new social powers -- 1.3.1. The relationships between economic power and politicalpower -- 1.3.2. Displacement of the capacity for action from the State to multinational corporations? -- 1.3.3. Technological proliferation and organizational mutations: the emergence of new powers? -- 1.3.4. The emergence of a fourth power through the development of new collective, discursive and decisional spaces: the media? -- 2. Subjective and Intersubjective Power -- 2.1. The concept of relational power, a concept of subject or subjects? -- 2.2. Interactions, translations and exchanges: locations, situations and manifestations of relational power -- 2.3. A desirous subject driving a relational power -- 3. Discursive Power: Words, Languages, Controls and Arguments -- 3.1. The active power of language in and of itself -- 3.1.1. The efficacy of words -- 3.1.2. Terminological mastery and the power of knowledge -- 3.2. The power of language in operation -- 3.2.1. Performative speech acts? -- 3.2.2. The construction of discourse within rhetoric -- 3.3. The predominance of social frameworks in the exercise of linguistic power -- 3.3.1. The control of language and the resulting conflict -- 3.3.2. Linguistic competence, an instrument of social reproduction -- 3.4. The symbolic and analogic power of language: acting on the imagination, feelings and desire -- PART 2. Mobilizing the Concept of Power in ICS -- Introduction to Part 2.

4. Linguistic Power in ICS -- 4.1. Authority figures -- 4.1.1. The genesis of the concept of the figure -- 4.1.2. The power of the authority figure -- 4.2. The circulation of epic stories and the instrumentalization of metaphors -- 4.2.1. Stories and the construction of representations -- 4.2.2. Metaphors, invocation, and naturalization -- 4.3. The stimulation of desire, the manipulation of self-esteem, and the instrumentalization of identities -- 4.3.1. Individual identity: recognition and instrumentalization of the relation to the self -- 4.3.2. Collective identity: the manipulation of the desire to belong -- 4.4. The concealment or even prohibition of alternative language -- 4.4.1. The dominance of authorized language -- 4.4.2. Naturalization and unthought -- 4.4.3. The control of discursive spaces -- 4.5. The fields and spaces for the exercise of communicational influence -- 4.5.1. The marketing approach in light of the "publicness" principle17 -- 4.5.2. The manipulation and influence of actors in organizations -- 5. Power, Society, and Developments in ICT -- 5.1. The emergence of the "information society" -- 5.1.1. Are digital technologies the foundation for the construction of the information society? -- 5.1.2. The exercise of the discursive power connected to the expression "information society" -- 5.2. Reinforcement of established power and social control or relocation of power? -- 5.2.1. New potential for control -- 5.2.2. A new space for counter-power? -- 5.2.3. Reinforcement of established power or new ways of exercising power? -- 5.2.4. Conclusion: a digital society of control? -- 5.3. The rationalization of information and communication, a contemporary expression of power? -- 5.3.1. Emergence and instrumentalization of the symbolic aspects of communication.

5.3.2. Are normalizations and cognitive rationalization more effective than symbolic rationalization? -- 6. Media Power -- 6.1. Extensions of the debate: does media power have powerful effects or limited effects? -- 6.1.1. Autonomous receivers/passive receivers -- 6.1.2. Influence rather than media power -- 6.1.3. Media: the strength of counter-power? -- 6.1.4. A relational rather than a political power -- 6.2. The power of journalists? -- 6.2.1. The key position of journalist(s) -- 6.2.2. Journalists caught up in power relations -- 6.2.3. A systemic power imposed on journalists? -- 6.3. The media: between symbolic, political, and economic powers -- 6.3.1. The way the media distributes and favors certain representations -- 6.3.2. Concentration and economic power as an explanation of sociopolitical actions by the media -- 6.3.3. New media: new forms of power -- 6.4. The power of the image and the power of image distribution media -- 6.4.1. The relationship between text and image -- 6.4.2. The inherent power of the image -- 6.4.3. The social power and counter-power of images -- Conclusion -- References -- Index of Names -- Index of Notions -- Other titles from iSTE in Knowledge Management -- EULA.

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