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Critique de l’économie politique de l’Espace public médiatique

This seminar session will be presented by Nikos Smyrnaios, a professor of information and communication sciences at Université de Toulouse. He will talk about the political economy of the media public sphere, highlighting its merits and limitations.

Event, Research Seminar

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Salle K.011, 1 place Saint Thomas d'Aquin 75007 Paris

Abstract

The presentation offers a critique of the political economy of the media public sphere (PS) in the context of the polycrisis and the widespread digitisation of our societies. It revisits the canonical conception of the PS, highlighting its merits and limitations. Finally, it questions the effects of the platformisation of the IAG on the contemporary media system and describes the structural pathologies of the digital public sphere in the neoliberal era.

Biography

Born in Athens in 1976, Nikos Smyrnaios is a professor of information and communication sciences at Université de Toulouse. Member of the Laboratoire d’études et de recherches appliquées en sciences sociales (LERASS), he is responsible of the Mdias et médiations socio-numériques (MSN) research area. Nikos Smyrnaios is the author of several articles and books on digital media and public sphere, as well as the internet industry. He published  Les GAFAM contre l’Internet. Une économie politique du numérique, released in 2017 by INA éditions and translated into English. In 2025, he published  L’espace public sous l’emprise du capital. De la presse bourgeoise aux géants de la Silicon Valley, released by Le Bord de l'eau.

Practical informations

This seminar will be held in person and in French, on Tuesday, March 17, 2026, from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM, in Room K.011, 1 Place Saint-Thomas d'Aquin, 75007 Paris.

Registration is mandatory via this link.