Circulation of concepts in the media and social networks
Social networks as a battlefield : attention dynamics and concept circulation in the Twittersphere
From politics to discussions on global warming to debates on vaccination, social networks are increasingly influencing what happens offline, whereas they were non-existent just twenty years ago. This virtualization of social interactions raises as many major challenges for our democracies as it does new research questions. On the one hand, the acceleration of information and the amplification of disinformation and misinformation phenomena give us the impression of a disruption and weakening of the social fabric and public debate. On the other hand, the analysis of online exchanges and the resulting reconstruction of social groups offer a new perspective on the evolution of social groups. We will illustrate these issues and phenomena using analyses carried out within the Politoscope project, a CNRS facility that has been analyzing political and media exchanges on social networks such as Twitter or 4Chan since 2016.
