Événements traumatiques et médias : quelles répercussions pour les sujets impliqués ?

Abstract: The media relieve daily the traumatic events, which take place worldwide as in closer of the everyday life of the spectators. This overbid of images joins in a context where political, judiciary, media and medical logic are forced to coexist. The spectacularisation of the distress and the suffering invades all the space and leads to the stigmatization of the persons involved in this type of event in a specific human category, that of the victims so fast sanctuarised that sacrificed on the scene of the ratings. Our comment aims at understanding better the stakes bound to the evolution of the media culture and its repercussions both with the subjects directly involved in the traumatic event and towards the spectators. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]