Jerome Berthaut
Associate Professor at the university of Bourgogne -jerome.berthaut@u-bourgogne.fr
Presentation
Academic Positions
Lecturer in Media Studies, Dept. of information and communication sciences, University of Burgundy
Research member, Information and communication research unit CIMEOS, University of Burgundy
Associate researcher, Migrations and Society Research Unit (URMIS), University of Paris Diderot
Elected member, Executive committee, French Sociological Association (AFS)
2012-2013 : Post doctoral student, Center West Sociological Research and Study Group (GRESCO), University of Limoges
2011-2012 : Temporary Lecturer and Research Assistant, Political science, University of Versailles-Saint Quentin
2009-2010 : Temporary Lecturer and Research Assistant, Sociology, University of Paris Diderot
Awards / Personal Distinctions
2012 : Research Prize – Institut National de l’Audiovisuel / National Audiovisual Institute (INA)
Research in progress
Relationships between journalists and European interest groups (economical issues & communication strategies) pressure
Key words
Journalism, communication, ethnography of news organizations, medias, stereotypes, professional socialization, professional practices, popular suburbs, European interest groups (Brussels), public affairs…
Teaching and advising
Introduction to communication and information sciences
Web culture
Media Sociology
French Medias
News writing
Research methods
Research Seminars
Education
Ph.D., Sociology, University of Paris Diderot, 2012
- Thesis entitled ““Banlieue” on demand. Investigation on the interiorization of journalistic common sense”, and presented on the 14th of March 2012, at University of Paris Diderot
- Summary [[This thesis reconsiders the media treatment of working class suburbs by exploring the journalistic coverage process. Based on ethnographies conducted in news organizations of local & national media, this study reports on the practical aspect of the journalists’ approach of “banlieue” which appears to be throughout a professional operating category. The analysis demonstrates that the news stories about popular suburbs assigned to reporters by their hierarchy proceed at the same time of editorial priorities, writing models (social issues, crime stories, success stories), constraints of interaction with their “sources” and a work organization (dedicated to police matters, recruitment of “fixers”, expertise on “suburb”). The thesis then analyzes reporters’ work conditions on the fieldwork (profitability requirements, difficulty of getting access to the people) and argues that adherence to journalist’s pre-established professional standards lead to “short cuts” (recruitment of go-betweens, structured interview), that induce as many cognitive & semantic short cuts. By exploring reporter’s margins of resistance facing work collective’s prescription, this analysis shows that final story proposed to the general public are gradually incorporated as obvious within and through professional practice, fueling an on-going reinforcement of stereotypes (laudatory as well as depreciative) on a non reflective mode.]] (english)
M.A., Social Sciences (Migrations and interethnic relations), University of Paris Diderot, 2003
M.A., Journalism, University of Strasbourg, 2000
M.A., History, University of Lyon (Erasmus exchange in UK), 1998