Finally human-machine interfaces

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ES with Kati Bremme & Louise Faudeux Stay up to date and subscribe to the newsletter! International media news every Saturday in your inbox Your email address Register Discover all the France Télévisions newsletters On the same themeBy Olivier Mauco, president of Game in Society, PhD in political science, lecturer at Sciences Po Paris With the metaverse, journalism risks disappearing if it does not confront the major problem of creating a common reality. The self-proclaimed autonomous dimension of the metaverse suggests a new form of libertarian anarchism in vogue in Silicon Valley.


Indeed, the metaverse is characterized by specific viber database dynamics: self-sovereignty (Web 3.0), trust and transparency (blockchain), self-organization (DAOs, Decentralized Autonomous Organizations ), digital experience worlds (mostly in 3D), and. This reorganization of authority, where the third party is no longer necessary, radically changes the role of the author. Moreover, the convergence between the real world and the virtual world blurs the boundaries, instituting a new regime of reality, the "synthetic reality" between the physical and digital worlds. New authority and new regime of reality thus modify journalistic work and the very production of information.


New forms of authority The reorganization of authority by the blockchain is a major change. A trusted device that allows certification without the presence of a third party, the blockchain competes with trusted third parties that operate on the recording of registers. Coupled with 3D universes, already very present such as those of video games, it is at the foundation of the metaverse, introducing a new relationship to the ownership of data, recorded in the bricks of decentralized databases. Authority, in the double sense of the one who writes and the one who exercises the power to select, is called into question by the erasure of any intermediary body, public institutions and centralized media in the lead