Plaidoyer pour une éducation humaine aux médias ou comment redonner du sens à l’information
Médiadoc, No. 18, pp. 5-12. 2017
By Alava, S.
Yes, I admit that when I was a young doctor and documentalist professor I thought about information, it seemed to me to be the child of reason and logic. I relied on two tutelary masters to help decode data and construct reasoning: the intellectual and the journalist. One ensured the construction of knowledge from rational and experimental reasoning and the other validated it through objective and valid professional overlaps. How blind I was!
“Everything is searchable on the shelves of the library. The careful history of the future, the faithful catalog of the Library, thousands and thousands of deceptive catalogs, the fact of your death, the translation of every book into every language, the interpolations of each book in every book. ” Borges JL, 1941.
And if the accumulation of books, the incessant pursuit of information wasn’t the alpha and omega of reflection? If, as Borges says, the world is made of “thousands of deceptive catalogs.” So, how to build meaning? Who can help me in this quest for truth? And how to proceed? This is the yardstick of our very conception of media culture education and information to reconsider. This is the very conception of the information to be redrawn. Does the critical sense so often invoked in texts, speeches and professional dreams exist? And how does one produce it? My truths were but provisional and human.
