T Venturini
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 49628 |
|---|---|
| NOME | T Venturini |
| PRENOMES | T |
| SOBRENOME | Venturini |
| ASSINATURA | VENTURINI T |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0004-5308 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 36 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 543 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2007 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Content moderation as traffic control
This article investigates online speech governance as a case study of contemporary security practices, focusing on how states have tried to regulate the moderation of digital communication flows. Drawing on governance theories and critical security studies, the study analyzes and compares different regulatory regimes in the United States and Europe. Using a quali-quantitative analysis of seven legislative texts, it identifies three distinct appro…
Dabloons, autopsy of a TikTok meme
In this paper, we analyze the very short and yet very rich story of a TikTok meme: the rise and fall of the dabloon fictive currency. We examine this story as an example of self-exciting trendiness: a common internet dynamic in which trendiness and cultural vibrancy become inextricably intertwined. In the case of the dabloons and of many other memetic phenomena in TikTok and other platforms, this connection creates a spiraling cycle of popularity…
The use of artificial intelligence in counter-disinformation
Disinformation has recently become a subject of widespread concerns across the globe. To combat this issue, various initiatives have emerged, aimed at identifying, tracking, and debunking disinformation. Artificial intelligence (AI) has been incorporated as a tool to counter disinformation, but its implementation has not always been successful and may even be counterproductive. Thus, there is a growing recognition of the need for benchmarking the…
Interdisciplinary research in artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) is widely regarded as one of the most promising technologies for advancing science, fostering innovation, and solving global challenges. Recent years have seen a push for teamwork between experts from different fields and AI specialists, but the outcomes of these collaborations have yet to be studied. We focus on approximately 15,000 papers at the intersection of AI and COVID-19—arguably one of the major challenges of…
Memecry
In this article we propose a new theoretical framework to conceptualise Internet memes and to trace their temporal variation on 4chan/pol/. We draw from literature on primary and secondary orality to conceptualise the repetition-with-variation of Internet memes as a form of memecry, which we argue is specifically pertinent to the collectivity of online subcultures. We operationalise its study through formulas: mnemonic phrases that encapsulate im…
Reactionary sensemaking
Internet memes used to be funny, but somewhere in the mid-2010's, a darker dimension surfaced. This editorial explores this ‘reactionary turn’ in digital culture through a collection of articles and commentaries on ‘the micropolitics of online oppositional subcultures’. In the special theme, these range from commentaries on how misogyny and hate speech exploit platform affordances to articles tracing the growth and spread of arcane memes and anti…
Pseudo-scientific versus anti-scientific online conspiracism
Attitudes of distrust and paranoia toward scientific and political institutions are increasingly identified as major troubles in online communication and often lumped together under the umbrella term of conspiracy theories. However, this term encompasses two distinct communication practices that deserve to be distinguished. Traditional conspiratorial thinking adopts pseudo-scientific arguments, while newer manifestations lack coherent theories, p…
Bridging in network organisations. The case of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Online Conspiracy Theories, Digital Platforms and Secondary Orality
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 program of research into its features and into its surprising adaptation to the attention regime of digit…
What do we see when we look at networks
It is increasingly common in natural and social sciences to rely on network visualizations to explore relational datasets and illustrate findings. Such practices have been around long enough to prove that scholars find it useful to project networks in a two-dimensional space and to use their visual qualities as proxies for their topological features. Yet these practices remain based on intuition, and the foundations and limits of this type of exp…
We only have 12 years”
This article contributes to the study of climate debates online by examining how the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C (SR15) played out on YouTube following its release in October 2018. We examined features of 40 videos that ranked the highest in YouTube’s search engine over the course of four weeks after the publication of the report. Additionally, this study examines the shifting visibility of the videos, the nature of the channel…
Fake news’ as infrastructural uncanny
In this article, we examine how the social disturbance precipitated by ‘fake news’ can be viewed as a kind of infrastructural uncanny. We suggest that the threat of problematic and viral junk news can raise existential questions about the routine circulation, engagement and monetisation of content through the Web and social media. Prompted by the unsettling effects associated with the ‘fake news’ scandal, we propose methodological tactics for exp…
Junk News Bubbles
In this article, we present a type of media disorder which we call ‘junk news bubbles’ and which derives from the effort invested by online platforms and their users to identify and circulate contents with rising popularity. Such emphasis on trending matters, we claim, can have two detrimental effects on public debates: first, it shortens the amount of time available to discuss each matter and second, it increases the ephemeral concentration of m…
Actor-Network versus Network Analysis versus Digital Networks
A reality check(list) for digital methods
Digital Methods can be defined as the repurposing of the inscriptions generated by digital media for the study of collective phenomena. The strength of these methods comes from their capacity to take advantage of the data and computational capacities of online platforms; their weakness comes from the difficulty to separate the phenomena that they investigate from the features of the media in which they manifest (‘the medium is the message’, accor…
Ploughing digital landscapes
In this article, we discuss Facebook’s strategy to influence the development of a new communication format known as live video streaming. We take this case study as an example of the ways in which Web platforms operate to harness media innovations and their social uses. The case of Facebook Live illustrates exemplary how, far from developing spontaneously, media landscapes are actively shaped by the technological and financial initiatives of thei…
Ator-rede versus Análise de Redes versus Redes Digitais
Este artigo discute diferenças e afinidades entre três tipos de rede (Ator-Rede, Análise de Redes e Redes Digitais) importantes para o Digital STS.2 Nas últimas décadas, a colonização de pesquisas em STS foi lenta e gradual. Ela se inicia com a Teoria Ator-Rede (TAR), que oferece um conjunto de noções para descrever a construção de fenômenos sociotécnicos. Com o advento da Análise de Redes, estudiosos incorporam técnicas de investigação e visuali…
An unexpected journey
In this article, we present a few lessons we learnt in the establishment of the Sciences Po médialab. As an interdisciplinary laboratory associating social scientists, code developers and information designers, the médialab is not one of a kind. In the last years, several of such initiatives have been established around the world to harness the potential of digital technologies for the study of collective life. If we narrate this particular story…
Contrasting medium and genre on Wikipedia to open up the dominating definition and classification of geoengineering
Geoengineering is typically defined as a techno-scientific response to climate change that differs from mitigation and adaptation, and that includes diverse individual technologies, which can be classified as either solar radiation management or carbon dioxide removal. We analyse the representation of geoengineering on Wikipedia as a way of opening up this dominating, if contested, model for further debate. We achieve this by contrasting the domi…
Enjeux topologiques et topographiques de la cartographie du Web
En 2003, l'UNESCO a approuvé la Convention pour la sauvegarde du patrimoine culturel immatériel. Bien que les États nationaux restent les interlocuteurs principaux de l'UNESCO, la Convention reconnait à des nombreux autres acteurs un rôle fondamental dans la conservation de ce patrimoine. Les traditions orales et les pratiques culturelles sont créées et soutenues par des réseaux vastes et complexes d'institutions, associations, organisations non …
Hors champs
Cet article reprend une recherche de Luc Boltanski sur les enseignants de l'IEP de Paris. Dans cette recherche, Boltanski s'appuie sur une représentation tabulaire des champs sociaux pour montrer que la classe dominante se caractérise avant tout par sa multipositionnalité, c'est-à-dire par la tendance de ses membres à occuper plusieurs positions dans plusieurs champs. En remplaçant le tableau de Boltanski par un graphe d'individus et d'institutio…
Does television reflect the evolution of scientific knowledge? The case of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder coverage on French television
Biomedical findings mature from uncertain observations to validated facts. Although subsequent studies often refute initial appealing findings, newspapers privilege the latter and often fail to cover refutations. Thus, biomedical knowledge and media reporting may diverge with time. Here we investigated how French television reported on three scientific questions relative to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) from 1995 to 2010: i) is …
Eine unerwartete Reise
Intangible cultural heritage webs
The 2003 United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Convention for the safeguard of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) is addressed to the States and assigns them several tasks. However, no State can accomplish all these tasks without mobilizing a wide network of institutions, associations, and individuals. The national ICH policies intersect, overlap, and often transform the existing relationships among these actor…
Eine unerwartete Reise
Diving in magma
The cartography of controversies is a set of techniques to explore and visualize issues. It was developed by Bruno Latour as a didactic version of Actor-Network Theory to train college students in the investigation of contemporary socio-technical debate. The scope and interest of such cartography, however, exceed its didactic origin. Adopted and developed in several universities in Europe and the US, the cartography of controversies is today a fu…
The whole is always smaller than its parts' - a digital test ofGabrielTardes' monads
In this paper we argue that the new availability of digital data sets allows one to revisitGabrielTarde's (1843-1904) social theory that entirely dispensed with using notions such as individual or society. Our argument is that when it was impossible, cumbersome or simply slow to assemble and to navigate through the masses of information on particular items, it made sense to treat data about social connections by defining two levels: one for the e…
Building on faults
In a previous article in this journal, I introduced Bruno Latour's cartography of controversies and I discussed half of it, namely how to observe techno-scientific controversies. In this article I will concentrate on the remaining half: how to represent the complexity of social debates in a legible form. In my previous paper, we learnt how to explore the richness of collective existence through Actor-Network Theory. In this one, I will discuss ho…
A reality check(list) for digital methods
Digital Methods can be defined as the repurposing of the inscriptions generated by digital media for the study of collective phenomena. The strength of these methods comes from their capacity to take advantage of the data and computational capacities of online platforms; their weakness comes from the difficulty to separate the phenomena that they investigate from the features of the media in which they manifest (‘the medium is the message’, accor…
Fake news’ as infrastructural uncanny
In this article, we examine how the social disturbance precipitated by ‘fake news’ can be viewed as a kind of infrastructural uncanny. We suggest that the threat of problematic and viral junk news can raise existential questions about the routine circulation, engagement and monetisation of content through the Web and social media. Prompted by the unsettling effects associated with the ‘fake news’ scandal, we propose methodological tactics for exp…
Three maps and three misunderstandings
This article proposes an original analysis of the international debate on climate change through the use of digital methods. Its originality is twofold. First, it examines a corpus of reports covering 18 years of international climate negotiations, a dataset never explored before through digital techniques. This corpus is particularly interesting because it provides the most consistent and detailed reporting of the negotiations of the United Nati…
Online Conspiracy Theories, Digital Platforms and Secondary Orality
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 program of research into its features and into its surprising adaptation to the attention regime of digit…
Présentation
International audience
Fill in the Gap
In the last few years, electronic media brought a revolution in the traceability of social phenomena. As particles in a bubble chamber, social trajectories leave digital trails that can be analyzed to gain a deeper understanding of collective life. To make sense of these traces a renewed collaboration between social and natural scientists is needed. In this paper, we claim that current research strategies based on micro-macro models are unfit to …
Ploughing digital landscapes
In this article, we discuss Facebook’s strategy to influence the development of a new communication format known as live video streaming. We take this case study as an example of the ways in which Web platforms operate to harness media innovations and their social uses. The case of Facebook Live illustrates exemplary how, far from developing spontaneously, media landscapes are actively shaped by the technological and financial initiatives of thei…
What do we see when we look at networks
It is increasingly common in natural and social sciences to rely on network visualizations to explore relational datasets and illustrate findings. Such practices have been around long enough to prove that scholars find it useful to project networks in a two-dimensional space and to use their visual qualities as proxies for their topological features. Yet these practices remain based on intuition, and the foundations and limits of this type of exp…
Intangible cultural heritage webs
The 2003 United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Convention for the safeguard of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) is addressed to the States and assigns them several tasks. However, no State can accomplish all these tasks without mobilizing a wide network of institutions, associations, and individuals. The national ICH policies intersect, overlap, and often transform the existing relationships among these actor…
Le tout est toujours plus petit que ses parties
Cet article vise à démonter que la disponibilité récente de données numériques permet de revisiter la théorie sociale de Gabriel Tarde (1843-1904) qui se passe totalement de notions telles que l'individu ou la société. Notre analyse repose sur l'idée que, tant qu'il était impossible, difficile ou simplement fastidieux d'amasser et de consulter des quantités d'informations liées à des sujets précis, il était logique de traiter les données relative…
Junk News Bubbles
In this article, we present a type of media disorder which we call ‘junk news bubbles’ and which derives from the effort invested by online platforms and their users to identify and circulate contents with rising popularity. Such emphasis on trending matters, we claim, can have two detrimental effects on public debates: first, it shortens the amount of time available to discuss each matter and second, it increases the ephemeral concentration of m…
Pseudo-scientific versus anti-scientific online conspiracism
Attitudes of distrust and paranoia toward scientific and political institutions are increasingly identified as major troubles in online communication and often lumped together under the umbrella term of conspiracy theories. However, this term encompasses two distinct communication practices that deserve to be distinguished. Traditional conspiratorial thinking adopts pseudo-scientific arguments, while newer manifestations lack coherent theories, p…
Hors champs
Cet article reprend une recherche de Luc Boltanski sur les enseignants de l'IEP de Paris. Dans cette recherche, Boltanski s'appuie sur une représentation tabulaire des champs sociaux pour montrer que la classe dominante se caractérise avant tout par sa multipositionnalité, c'est-à-dire par la tendance de ses membres à occuper plusieurs positions dans plusieurs champs. En remplaçant le tableau de Boltanski par un graphe d'individus et d'institutio…
Verba Volant, Scripta Manent
It is commonly recognized that different social configurations tend to be associated with different innovation styles. Linear innovations are more likely to be produced by communities of strong and homogeneous ties, whereas radical innovations tend to originate from networks of weak and diverse connections. Yet there is a second and subtler linkage between social patterns and innovation types: a junction that depends on the nature of the media av…
Diving in magma
The cartography of controversies is a set of techniques to explore and visualize issues. It was developed by Bruno Latour as a didactic version of Actor-Network Theory to train college students in the investigation of contemporary socio-technical debate. The scope and interest of such cartography, however, exceed its didactic origin. Adopted and developed in several universities in Europe and the US, the cartography of controversies is today a fu…
Building on faults
In a previous article in this journal, I introduced Bruno Latour's cartography of controversies and I discussed half of it, namely how to observe techno-scientific controversies. In this article I will concentrate on the remaining half: how to represent the complexity of social debates in a legible form. In my previous paper, we learnt how to explore the richness of collective existence through Actor-Network Theory. In this one, I will discuss ho…
Des migrants et des mots
Si les dégradations de l’environnement apparaissent aujourd’hui comme un facteur majeur de migrations, le débat concernant la définition du lien entre environnement et migration reste profondément ouvert. Un très grand nombre de termes occupent aujourd’hui l’espace public pour désigner ceux qui doivent se déplacer à cause de dégradations de leur environnement, générant ainsi une controverse sur l’usage des différents termes. Cet article essaie d’…
The whole is always smaller than its parts' - a digital test ofGabrielTardes' monads
In this paper we argue that the new availability of digital data sets allows one to revisitGabrielTarde's (1843-1904) social theory that entirely dispensed with using notions such as individual or society. Our argument is that when it was impossible, cumbersome or simply slow to assemble and to navigate through the masses of information on particular items, it made sense to treat data about social connections by defining two levels: one for the e…
Le tout est toujours plus petit que ses parties
Cet article vise à démonter que la disponibilité récente de données numériques permet de revisiter la théorie sociale de Gabriel Tarde (1843-1904) qui se passe totalement de notions telles que l'individu ou la société. Notre analyse repose sur l'idée que, tant qu'il était impossible, difficile ou simplement fastidieux d'amasser et de consulter des quantités d'informations liées à des sujets précis, il était logique de traiter les données relative…
ForceAtlas2, a Continuous Graph Layout Algorithm for Handy Network Visualization Designed for the Gephi Software
Gephi is a network visualization software used in various disciplines (social network analysis, biology, genomics...). One of its key features is the ability to display the spatialization process, aiming at transforming the network into a map, and ForceAtlas2 is its default layout algorithm. The latter is developed by the Gephi team as an all-around solution to Gephi users' typical networks (scale-free, 10 to 10,000 nodes). We present here for th…
Three maps and three misunderstandings
This article proposes an original analysis of the international debate on climate change through the use of digital methods. Its originality is twofold. First, it examines a corpus of reports covering 18 years of international climate negotiations, a dataset never explored before through digital techniques. This corpus is particularly interesting because it provides the most consistent and detailed reporting of the negotiations of the United Nati…
Does television reflect the evolution of scientific knowledge? The case of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder coverage on French television
Biomedical findings mature from uncertain observations to validated facts. Although subsequent studies often refute initial appealing findings, newspapers privilege the latter and often fail to cover refutations. Thus, biomedical knowledge and media reporting may diverge with time. Here we investigated how French television reported on three scientific questions relative to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) from 1995 to 2010: i) is …
Eine unerwartete Reise
Intangible cultural heritage webs
The 2003 United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Convention for the safeguard of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) is addressed to the States and assigns them several tasks. However, no State can accomplish all these tasks without mobilizing a wide network of institutions, associations, and individuals. The national ICH policies intersect, overlap, and often transform the existing relationships among these actor…
Présentation
International audience
Fill in the Gap
In the last few years, electronic media brought a revolution in the traceability of social phenomena. As particles in a bubble chamber, social trajectories leave digital trails that can be analyzed to gain a deeper understanding of collective life. To make sense of these traces a renewed collaboration between social and natural scientists is needed. In this paper, we claim that current research strategies based on micro-macro models are unfit to …
Uncertainty, Decision Science, and Policy Making
The financial crisis of 2008 was unforeseen partly because the academic theories that underpin policy making do not sufficiently account for uncertainty and complexity or learned and evolved human capabilities for managing them. Mainstream theories of decision making tend to be strongly normative and based on wishfully unrealistic “idealized” modeling. In order to develop theories of actual decision making under uncertainty, we need new methodolo…
Contrasting medium and genre on Wikipedia to open up the dominating definition and classification of geoengineering
Geoengineering is typically defined as a techno-scientific response to climate change that differs from mitigation and adaptation, and that includes diverse individual technologies, which can be classified as either solar radiation management or carbon dioxide removal. We analyse the representation of geoengineering on Wikipedia as a way of opening up this dominating, if contested, model for further debate. We achieve this by contrasting the domi…
Enjeux topologiques et topographiques de la cartographie du Web
En 2003, l'UNESCO a approuvé la Convention pour la sauvegarde du patrimoine culturel immatériel. Bien que les États nationaux restent les interlocuteurs principaux de l'UNESCO, la Convention reconnait à des nombreux autres acteurs un rôle fondamental dans la conservation de ce patrimoine. Les traditions orales et les pratiques culturelles sont créées et soutenues par des réseaux vastes et complexes d'institutions, associations, organisations non …
Hors champs
Cet article reprend une recherche de Luc Boltanski sur les enseignants de l'IEP de Paris. Dans cette recherche, Boltanski s'appuie sur une représentation tabulaire des champs sociaux pour montrer que la classe dominante se caractérise avant tout par sa multipositionnalité, c'est-à-dire par la tendance de ses membres à occuper plusieurs positions dans plusieurs champs. En remplaçant le tableau de Boltanski par un graphe d'individus et d'institutio…
An unexpected journey
In this article, we present a few lessons we learnt in the establishment of the Sciences Po médialab. As an interdisciplinary laboratory associating social scientists, code developers and information designers, the médialab is not one of a kind. In the last years, several of such initiatives have been established around the world to harness the potential of digital technologies for the study of collective life. If we narrate this particular story…
A reality check(list) for digital methods
Digital Methods can be defined as the repurposing of the inscriptions generated by digital media for the study of collective phenomena. The strength of these methods comes from their capacity to take advantage of the data and computational capacities of online platforms; their weakness comes from the difficulty to separate the phenomena that they investigate from the features of the media in which they manifest (‘the medium is the message’, accor…
Ploughing digital landscapes
In this article, we discuss Facebook’s strategy to influence the development of a new communication format known as live video streaming. We take this case study as an example of the ways in which Web platforms operate to harness media innovations and their social uses. The case of Facebook Live illustrates exemplary how, far from developing spontaneously, media landscapes are actively shaped by the technological and financial initiatives of thei…
Ator-rede versus Análise de Redes versus Redes Digitais
Este artigo discute diferenças e afinidades entre três tipos de rede (Ator-Rede, Análise de Redes e Redes Digitais) importantes para o Digital STS.2 Nas últimas décadas, a colonização de pesquisas em STS foi lenta e gradual. Ela se inicia com a Teoria Ator-Rede (TAR), que oferece um conjunto de noções para descrever a construção de fenômenos sociotécnicos. Com o advento da Análise de Redes, estudiosos incorporam técnicas de investigação e visuali…
Actor-Network versus Network Analysis versus Digital Networks
We only have 12 years”
This article contributes to the study of climate debates online by examining how the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C (SR15) played out on YouTube following its release in October 2018. We examined features of 40 videos that ranked the highest in YouTube’s search engine over the course of four weeks after the publication of the report. Additionally, this study examines the shifting visibility of the videos, the nature of the channel…
Fake news’ as infrastructural uncanny
In this article, we examine how the social disturbance precipitated by ‘fake news’ can be viewed as a kind of infrastructural uncanny. We suggest that the threat of problematic and viral junk news can raise existential questions about the routine circulation, engagement and monetisation of content through the Web and social media. Prompted by the unsettling effects associated with the ‘fake news’ scandal, we propose methodological tactics for exp…
Junk News Bubbles
In this article, we present a type of media disorder which we call ‘junk news bubbles’ and which derives from the effort invested by online platforms and their users to identify and circulate contents with rising popularity. Such emphasis on trending matters, we claim, can have two detrimental effects on public debates: first, it shortens the amount of time available to discuss each matter and second, it increases the ephemeral concentration of m…
Computer Science (23 obras) · Sociology (18 obras) · Political science (16 obras) · Data science (10 obras) · World Wide Web (9 obras) · Complex Network Analysis Techniques (8 obras) · Epistemology (8 obras) · Law (8 obras) · Philosophy (7 obras) · Psychology (7 obras)