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

Comprendre les logiques médiatiques des mooks

Depuis une bonne dizaine d’années, les mooks font le pari d’un slow journalism fortement subjectivé, d’un important travail d’élaboration matérielle du support, et d’une distribution en librairie. Le présent collectif, issu d’un colloque tenu en 2014, entend apporter une première contribution à la compréhension de ce qui constitue, non plus une simple mode éphémère, mais plutôt le signe d’une mutation profonde des formes journalistiques.

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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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