De La Mediatisation Du Plagiat : Figures Et Discours Un Rabbin, Un écrivain, Une Journaliste Et Un Politique Dans Les Filets Des Médias Numériques Français (2010-2015)

Abstract

The analysis of media discourses on figures designated as plagiarists reveals constants of the narrative of denunciation, an attack on the symbolic, injured in this act, and the mobilization of the digital, as heuristic and as proof. The media treatment of cases of alleged plagiarism of philosopher Rabbi Gilles Bernheim, German politician Karl Theodor zu Guttenberg, journalist and academic Agnès Chauveau, writer Michel Houellebecq show how French digital media are looking at plagiarism without questioning the writing and the recovery but only to make the meaning of the values waver and collectively worry the taste of the truth. Forming these "cases", they are investigators, aggregating and enlisting Internet users in a process of denunciation and collective probation.