civilisation
US - agregation et capes d'anglais
And you, America,
Cast you the real reckoning for your present?
The lights and shadows of your future--good or evil?
- Walt Witman, 1900. Leaves of Grass.
AGRÉGATION INTERNE
D'ANGLAIS
98, 99
CIVILISATION ÉTATS-UNIENNE
OCTOBER 1998
"There are two
things I am most grateful for in my life. The first is that I was born a descendant
of the genuine Americans, the Indians; the second, that my birth happened in the
year 1888. In that year the Indians of my tribe, the Colvile (Swy-ayl-puh), were
well into the cycle of history involving their readjustment in living conditions.They
were in a pathetic state of turmoil caused by trying to learn how to till the soil
for a living, which was being done on a very small and crude scale. It was no easy
matter for members of this aboriginal stock, accustomed to making a different livelihood
(by the bow and arrow), to handle the plow and sow seed for food. Yet I was born
long enough ago to have known people who lived in the ancient way before everything
started to change." - Mourning Dove (Christine Quintasket), 1888-1936,
A
Salishan Autobiography.
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Senate passes Internet Tax Freedom Act - October 9, 1998 (IDG)
The U.S. Senate voted Thursday 96 to 2 to approve a bill that places a prohibition
on taxes of Internet access and goods bought online.
Starr
Report.
In the booming
surveillance industry they spy on whom they wish, when they wish, protected by barriers
of secrecy, fortified by billions of pounds worth of high, high technology. Duncan
Campbell reports from the United States on the secret Anglo-American plan for a global
electronic spy system for the 21st century capable of listening in to most of us
most of the time
Global Electronic interception
: Echelon.
Data Protection and the Press.
Spooks on both sides of the Atlantic
are intent on retaining their power to monitor the world's telecoms traffic...
Screw the Internet.
Extrait du Programme de l'AGRÉGATION INTERNE 98, et
99.
a - Cadre institutionnel
et aspects juridiques.
La liberté d'expression. Lois, codes et réglementations.
La Federal Communications Commission.
Médias, gouvernement et justice.
b - Structures et moyens: les évolutions majeures.
Groupes, chaînes, réseaux et conglomérats.
La presse nationale, régionale, ethnique et spécialisée. Agences,
quotidiens et magazines. L'impact de la haute technologie. Multimédias et
autoroutes de l'information.
c - Fonctions et communication de masse.
L'évolution du journalisme (information, opinion, investigation).
Exemple du New Journalism.
L'infospectacle. Les missions de l'audiovisuel public.
d - Aspects idéologiques et éthiques. Le quatrième
pouvoir.
Les sources, la crédibilité. Ia violence. Médias et multimédias
Lecture suggérée: Marshall McLuhan
(1911-1980), Understanding Media: The Extension of Man.(1964).
- "Je ne veux faire de peine à personne,
mais les médias (et les Eglises d'ailleurs) ont eu (et ont toujours) sur les
EU une influence autrement plus grande que les Indiens et les Noirs, sujet que pendant
très longtemps ont affectionné les Américanistes français."
Commentaires
du Pr Claude-Jean Bertrand sur
la question de civillisation américaine au concours.
- Médias et information aux Etats-Unis depuis
1945 : bibliographie.
- CAPES
EXTERNE 1998 -
le sujet de l'épreuve de commentaire de civilisation américaine.
A selection of useful U.S. government Web sites
by 'The Seattle Times' è
- Federal
Government WWW Servers - a comprehensive
list of U.S. government servers. The list is broken down into three areas: multiple-agency
servers, single agency servers (including the executive and legislative branches)
and government consortia servers.
- The Federal
Web Locator - a hot list of links to
U.S. government WWW resources, cfrom the Villanova Center for Information Law and
Policy.
- American
States - an alphabetical list links
you to the official home page of each of the 50 U.S. states. These home pages cover
broad topics such as education, business, government and travel.
- Government
Information Sharing Project - a demonstration
project by Oregon State University designed to provide Web access to U.S. federal
government information. Areas covered range from demographics to economic data to
education statistics.
- Keeping America Informed: the US Government Printing Office. The Government Printing Office Homepage offers electronic
access to documents published by government agencies. Papers from the National Budgets
to Nicotine Regulation Documents to Congressional Records are searchable and available
for down-loading in both text and PDF formats.
- Study of The United States.
- USIA -
United States Information Agency International
Home Page.
La
liberté de la presse - textes
cités ci-dessous, en anglais.
- ¿La conviction de l'importance d'une presse libre, exempte de toute intervention gouvernementale, est demeurée
inébranlable tout au long de l'histoire des États-Unis. C'est l'une
des raisons pour lesquelles les États-Unis n'ont pas de ministère de
l'information pour réglementer les activités des journalistes, pourquoi
ces derniers ne sont tenus ni de se faire immatriculer ni d'appartenir à un
syndicat..."
- Histoire
des médias américains,
difficultés à l'heure de l'électronique.
International Women's
Media Foundation: "No press is
truly free unless women share an equal voice in the media."
African
American Contributions to Science,
Technology and Medicine.
Studying
the Net -
.
Des liens, extraits, citations, passages,
illustrations, commentaires,
aphorismes,... en anglais ou en français, sont présentés ici, parfois en vrac.
Didactisés
selon besoin, certains de ces matériaux pourront servir
à fins d'exploitation lexicale, grammaticale ou culturelle.
Dec 1999
© Jean S. Sahaï 1996-1999.
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