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In a time of development of New Information and Communication Technologies (NICTs), especially of the Internet since the mid-1990s, « networked ghosts » have emerged. These new ghostly figures (for whom the movie Ring by Hideo Nakata released in 1998 was a milestone) have especially thrived in Japanese horror movies, before spreading at the international level. Overall, their success is based on two main distinct spatial patterns. On the one hand, « contagious specters », whose curse is transmitted and spreads on the model of an epidemic, following interactions within a relationship network. On the other hand, « connected revenants », who are able, like a network engineer, to operate and even to create networks in order to project themselves at will within them; therefore, their range of action tends towards ubiquity. This paper argues that networked ghosts are the embodiments of an ambivalent social fear, swinging between fear of others as a constant source of unknown (contagious specters) and fear of isolation and loss of identity (connected revenants). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]