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Cognitive risks refer to the disruption of attentional capacities that can be generated by intensive use of digital tools or cognitive disorders. In 2011, the American writer Nicholas Carr denounced the Internet in a book entitled “The Shallows” on the grounds that it would lead to an impoverishment of reading practices and thinking. Researchers in cognitive psychology (Amadieu and Tricot 2014) have shown that reading skills on the Web are indeed different from those required on paper, a thesis confirmed by the American neurolinguist Katherine Hayles (2016), who explains that the human brain has adapted to digital environments to acquire a new mode of attention: hyperattention. This new form of attention allows us to find our way around web content, through hyperlinks.

For some, this evolution in the ways of being attentive, with varying levels of concentration, of retaining certain information to varying degrees in various daily activities would be the harmful consequence of an overexposure to screens. For others (Citton 2014), the cause would rather be sought in the marketing model of platforms that seek to capture monetizable attention above all.