Une conférence de Nolwenn Tréhondart (U. Lorraine) et Anne Cordier (U. Lorraine), dans le cadre du cycle « Que veut (et que peut) encore l’éducation aux médias? »
22 mars 2022
Une conférence de Nolwenn Tréhondart (U. Lorraine) et Anne Cordier (U. Lorraine), dans le cadre du cycle « Que veut (et que peut) encore l’éducation aux médias? »
22 mars 2022
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.
This post argues that the protocols of the trading platforms used by retail investors are designed to fix users in a consumer position, with no influence in the curse of the markets. Challenging corporate discourses describing these platforms as vectors of transparency in the traditionally opaque world of finance, an analysis of Robinhood’s Payment for Order Flow (and eToro’s closed trading system demonstrates that the very elements making these services understandable for millions of users foreclose their agency as traders.