IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/gam/jpubli/v10y2022i1p7-d737244.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

The Parascientific Communication around Didier Raoult’s Expertise and the Debates in the Media and on Digital Social Networks during the COVID-19 Crisis in France

Author

Listed:
  • Julien Longhi

    (AGORA Lab, IDHN, IUF, CY Cergy Paris Université, F-95000 Cergy-Pontoise, France)

Abstract

Didier Raoult has acquired media authority in the debates on the treatment of COVID-19 in France thanks to his professional competence, raising issues of legitimacy and authority. He presents himself as a “star of infectious diseases”, belonging to the “elite”. In the press and online comments, the scientificity of the subject is mixed with considerations that may seem trivial. This paper will analyze the way in which scientificity is expressed in the media coverage of the scientist but also the way in which online communities discuss, argue, and become involved in polemics and controversies concerning him. It will analyze the links and shifts between scientific and parascientific communication. It will, therefore, deal with both the discourse and the staging around the scientist Didier Raoult and the circulation of his words and positions through online media and citizen communities.

Suggested Citation

  • Julien Longhi, 2022. "The Parascientific Communication around Didier Raoult’s Expertise and the Debates in the Media and on Digital Social Networks during the COVID-19 Crisis in France," Publications, MDPI, vol. 10(1), pages 1-16, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jpubli:v:10:y:2022:i:1:p:7-:d:737244
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2304-6775/10/1/7/pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2304-6775/10/1/7/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Pilar Mur-Dueñas & Rosa Lorés, 2022. "When Science Communication Becomes Parascience: Blurred Boundaries, Diffuse Roles," Publications, MDPI, vol. 10(2), pages 1-3, March.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:gam:jpubli:v:10:y:2022:i:1:p:7-:d:737244. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: MDPI Indexing Manager (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.mdpi.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.