Structures et contenus des sites d'information français Quel degré d'innovation?

Abstract

This article discusses the first outcome results carried out in a study for the architecture of twelve French news site homepages. This particular analysis deals with identifying the different items that make up the different homepages, as well as, their quantification and the calculation of their relative area within the page. Each item has been taken into consideration as apart of a systematic and objective analysis in areas, concerning the type of content (journalistic, commercial...), the format (text, photo, video and audio), all in relation to it's actual positioning on the homepage. Here, the objective is to observe and understand the innovations by which the information has been treated and to highlight the uniqueness - or the differences between the media on the Internet and the traditional media itself. The results have revealed a high heritage of the written press (with predominance of written texts fixed pictures) as well as with the structures of homepages. © 2011 Lavoisier, Paris.