Twitter and Relations of Seduction between Deputies and Journalists

This article describes how Twitter has made its way into the centre of the games of influence between Deputies and journalists in the production of political news in France today. The analysis shows how the new uses of the media that Twitter facilitates enable Deputies to break free from a parliamentary institution that historically has closely controlled the media’s coverage of its activities. However, while this dynamic contributes to bringing into the open relations between the press and the Assembly, the modes of interaction between Deputies and journalists in this space are not significantly different from those prevailing in the Quatre Colonnes (the hall where Deputies and journalists meet).