Horizon 1 1 17 ACL : Articles dans des revues avec comité de lecture répertoriées par l'AERES Culture Medicine and Psychiatry 43-61 Risk perception Social media Pandemic Rumours H1N1 FRANCE 2015 fdi:010064027 ENG Culture Medicine and Psychiatry 0165-005X ISI:000351202700005 1 10.1007/s11013-014-9410-y https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010064027 https://www.documentation.ird.fr/intranet/publi/2015/04/010064027.pdf 39 Horizon (IRD) This study of comments posted on major French print and TV media websites during the H1N1 epidemic illustrates the relationship between the traditional media and social media in responding to an emerging disease. A disturbing "geography of blame" was observed suggesting the metamorphosis of the folk-devil phenomenon to the Internet. We discovered a subterranean discourse about the putative origins and "objectives" of the H1N1 virus, which was absent from the discussions in mainstream television channels and large-circulation print media. These online rumours attributed hidden motives to governments, pharmaceutical companies, and figures of Otherness that were scapegoated in the social history of previous European epidemics, notably Freemasons and Jews. 056 UR912