À PROPOS ET AU-DELÀ DE GAZA : UN REGARD EN MIROIR EN FRANCE ET AU LIBAN SUR LA PERCEPTION COMMUNICATIONNELLE DES FAITS
ABOUT AND BEYOND GAZA: A LOOK IN THE MIRROR IN FRANCE AND LEBANON AT HOW THE FACTS ARE PERCEIVED IN THE MEDIA

Summary/Abstract: This article presents an inaugural lecture from the 27th “Franco-Romanian Colloquium on Information and Communication Sciences: Mediatic Narratives in Regimes of Truth and Post-Truth.” As both a researcher and a specialist in media studies, the author draws upon personal experience within his past professional activities to explore the relationships between French citizens of North African origin and the conflicts in the Middle East, viewed through paradoxical dynamics of proximity and distance, as well as identification. The objective is to examine these paradoxes and to highlight how they may illustrate certain tensions that run through post-truth regimes. When rational and cognitive detachment is set against an appreciation of complexity—which then enables communication to rebuild connections—even though, within the context, it can itself be a source of the breakdown of those connections when the public’s initial responses are driven primarily by emotion and identification. It is indeed undoubtedly very delicate for the media and journalism, caught up in immediacy and fierce competition, to have to account for this complexity by bearing witness and explaining, whilst drawing on history, memory, the intertwining of facts and feelings, and the shared responsibility of the parties involved within the same context.

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