Online Conspiracy Theories, Digital Platforms and Secondary Orality: Toward a Sociology of Online Monsters

Tommaso Venturini (1)

1 CIS - Centre Internet et Société

Reviving the somewhat forgotten notion of "secondary orality", this paper conceptualizes online conspiracism as a creative, if monstrous, response to the attention economy of social media. Combining classic literature on oral cultures and current research on online subcultures, this paper takes conspiratorial folklore seriously and develops a programme of research into its features and into its surprising adaptation to the attention regime of digital media.

Domaines: Sociologie; Anthropologie sociale et ethnologie

Tommaso Venturini. Online Conspiracy Theories, Digital Platforms and Secondary Orality: Toward a Sociology of Online Monsters. Theory, Culture and Society, 2022, 39 (5), pp.61-80. ⟨10.1177/02632764211070962⟩. ⟨hal-03464174⟩