Exploring possible future worlds with the practice of design fiction
Speculation as a means of critical distancing from the media

Une conférence de Géraldine Wuyckens (UC Louvain)

7 décembre 2022

Saemmer, Alexandra, Nolwenn Tréhondart, et Lucile Coquelin. 2022. Sur quoi se fondent nos interprétations ? Introduction à la sémiotique sociale appliquée aux images d’actualité, séries télé et sites web de médias. Papiers. Villeurbanne: Presses de l’enssib.

À partir de quels savoirs, plus ou moins intériorisés et conscientisés, conférons-nous du sens aux productions médiatiques ? Quelles en sont les bases sociales, culturelles, expérientielles ? Prenant résolument le contrepied de toute entreprise de décodage des textes, de fact-checking ou de critique des sources, les autrices de l’ouvrage Sur quoi se fondent nos interprétations ? — Alexandra Saemmer, Nolwenn Tréhondart et Lucile Coquelin — entendent poser les fondations d’une démarche en éducation aux médias qui mettrait l’accent sur les processus interprétatifs à l’œuvre dans notre compréhension des messages médiatiques.

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Conspiracy speakers’ criticality: too little or too much? A Rhetorical Reflexion on Conspiracy Theories

If the well-studied phenomenon of conspiracy theories still catches our attention, it is among other reasons because it crystallizes many aspects of our society. For example, our relationship with the media, the notion of transparency, the phenomenon of fake news, but also our ability to live together and make society. In this post, we will focus on the relationship that conspiracy speakers build within their discourses with the notion of “truth” as a value. Our hypothesis is that conspiracy speakers are too confident about this notion; instead of being critical and doubtful about events – as they seem to appear at first – they are instead too sure of being right. In this perspective we will argue that within conspiracy discourses, truth as a value is paradoxically based mostly on the character of the speaker and not on the reasoning they expose.

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