Un des textes structurant cette journée est Democracy and Trust in the Age of the Social Web de Gloria Origgi (2012). Ce texte étudie la notion de confiance d'une part et la place de cette notion dans les usages de réseaux sociaux. Nous en proposons quelques morceaux choisis qui serviront notre propos à venir.
« Trust characterizes the fundamental uncertainty of human condition, in which we need to transfer some power of control upon our lives to others in order to survive thus giving them the power to harm us. »
« Trust is involved in any asymmetrical situation in which one party has to take a risk that depends on the performance of the other party. »
« One of the points that is common both to cognitive and moral treatments of trust is the relational and «choice-based» dimension of the trust relation, as if it were always a matter of free choice to trust or not the others. »
« Many of the vigilant strategies are under our control, like monitoring the behaviour of our interlocutors, in order gather information about his or her past records, etc. but not all. Networked information displays some biases that are difficult to control and to monitor by its users. »
« The transition to Modernity is often depicted as a replacement of «warm» trust relations based on feelings of assurance and moral commitments with «cold» ones based on rational justifications. »