PHD Seminar -- Pierre-Emmanuel Metzger--Debrune : Can Sociology explain Knowledge? An ongoing PHD research on French Investigative Journalism and its international collaborations
454A - Luc Valentin
APC
This communication aims at presenting an ongoing PhD research to people who are not familiar with social sciences (journalists, and scientists and students from other disciplines).
In a first time, I underline what are the particularities of sociology as a discipline. How does one build a sociological object, and research questions relative to this object? What are the available methods one can employ to answer such sociological questions ?
In a second time, I present my PhD research on French Investigative Journalism (IJ) and its international collaborations. I examine the specific definition of IJ and the methods that I have chosen in order to identify the conditions of possibility of journalistic knowledge.
Finally, I present some of the first results of this research, from the already collected data.