Ep. 4 - How have online platforms changed conspiracy theorising? With Tommaso Venturini

This week, I will be speaking with Tommaso Venturini about how the internet and social media platforms can influence conspiracy theorising. Tommaso’s research uses the concept of ‘secondary orality’ to better understand how conspiracy theories emerge online, and how the structure of sites like 4chan can influence the kind of conspiracy theories we encounter today.

Tommaso Venturini is a researcher at the Centre for Internet and Society at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France, and an associate professor at the Medi@lab at the University of Geneva.

The views expressed in this series are solely those of the presenter or guest and do not reflect the opinions of WISERD or Cardiff University.

 

For Tommaso's article discusses in this episode, see: Online Conspiracy Theories, Digital Platforms and Secondary Orality: Toward a Sociology of Online Monsters - Tommaso Venturini, 2022 (sagepub.com)