The performance of territorial networks of organisations. The case of French centres of competitiveness

The press has not only informed, but also constructed the representation, interpreted by evoking some of our historical memories and a few points of ideological marks. This thesis examines the presence and the representation of violence in the southernmost region of Thailand, and the relationships between media and power in conflict situation during 2004-2006 under the new wave of Thailand's insurgency. We propose the structural problems which confirm the hypothesis that violence and the media are not in the relationship of harmony. The first concerns how the press qualifies the events. In 2004, the violence in southern Thailand was degraded to the lines of crimes. The Thai press has minimized the status of the insurgents to the criminal groups. "Fai Tai " and " bandit " are used as the discursive strategy by the press to illustrate the disturbances, which require pathological acts. The press photographs are also processed in the same order. When the insurgents have better developed their communicative strategies, the media representation of violence has more amplified the political scope of phenomenon. The violent actors are often presented as the real forces in the shadow, challenging the State power and threatening the security of civilians. In this case, the media discourse, including the photographic representation, focuses on the military forces and the use of legitimate violence against the insurgency. The second problem relates to the ideologies and the different identities which are the root of the conflict. The Thainess structures the discourse and the actions of the protagonists of the conflict, as well as the media discourse. The discourse of Thai popular newspapers such as Thairat and Matichon clearly insists on the unity of the Thai society and the security of the nation. As the discourse of southern violence, the representation of the protagonists of conflict can be read. In the Thai press, the Malay-Muslims in the southern provinces are presented in the image of the poor, disadvantaged, being dominated by certain erroneous beliefs.