2004
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Olivier Da Lage, « Internet, métamédia », Revue internationale et stratégique, ID : 10670/1.022d1c...
SUMMARY The Internet, More than a Media Since more than ten years, the Internet has come out of the inner circle of its initial professional users, military or academic, in order to gain progressively a wide audience. Within a decade, the Internet has profoundly changed social, economic, political and cultural balances throughout almost the entire planet. However, this happened in an unequal way : the « digital gap », if it cannot be reduced to the North/South opposition, is a reality carrying geopolitical tensions. Moreover, the Internet is hardly identifiable : is it, strictly speaking, a media ? To what extent can we characterise it as a means of emancipation, or as a military weapon ? How can we explain the « Internet paradox », which sometimes makes that a « global village » coexists with chauvinism ?