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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Conspiracy Theory"”.
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Conspiratoria - the Internet and the Logic of Conspiracy Theory
… of the relationships between the logic of conspiracy theory and the Internet. It argues that the Internet can be conceptualised as a technocultural space conducive to the development of conspiracy belief and practice. Critical discourses regarding the relationships between mainstream media …
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Witnessing Conspiracy Theories: Developing an Intersectional Approach to Conspiracy Theory Research
… proposes an intersectional approach to conspiracy theory research that engages conspiracy theories and conspiracy theorists by considering their proximity and affiliations with hegemonic power structures. Against challenges to conspiracy theories based on their lack of empirical …
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The Romantic View of Nature and the Conspiracy Theory in Environmental Documentaries
… environmental degradation through the use of the conspiracy theory. By analyzing the rhetorical and ideological features of environmental documentaries through the tradition of scholars who write on the Romantic views of nature and the conspiracy theories, this project’s methodology will allow us …
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Conspiracy Theory: An Empirical Study of Cheating in a Continuous Testing Environment
The effect of item characteristics on examinee recall of test items is examined in the paper. Study One evaluated item length, difficulty, guessing, discrimination, serial position, misfit, format, memoriability, clarity, familiarity, interest, and examinee ability as predictors of item recall. …
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The Politics of Conspiracy Theory and Control: Cybernetic Governmentality and the Scripted Political
This study analyzes the politics of contemporary conspiracy theory discourses in the United States. Departing from the predominant methodological individualism that characterizes many contemporary analyses of conspiracy theory, which take the individual subject as the unit to be explained and …
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A Paranoid Style? : The JFK Assassination and the Politics and Culture of Conspiracy Theory
This thesis analyses the phenomenon of conspiracy theory, using the assassination of President John F. Kennedy as a case study. Doubt is the root cause of conspiracy theory, stemming from both the innate biases all humans exhibit, and a traumatic experience – in this case the assassination of JFK. …
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Trust the Game: Gamification and the Rise of Online Conspiracy Theories
… dissertation examines how the once-obscure QAnon conspiracy theory made the jump from the far-reaches of the internet to our mainstream political discourse. I contend that gamification, or the application of game-like elements to non-game phenomena, has increased the persuasive power of conspiracy …
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Epistemology and Authority in Two Latter-day Saint QAnon Conspiracy Theorists
… of interviews with two highly engaged QAnon conspiracy theorists who are also members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I analyzed QAnon as an epistemic formation characterized by critique of social conditions, modern standards of rigor in research, and a highly accelerated …
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‘It’s all a cover up!’: An Examination of Epistemic Vices and Conspiracy Theories in the Internet Age
Conspiracy theories and fake news can be found in both off and online discourse. With COVID-19 still mutating, the same can be said for disinformation. At the beginning there were conspiracies that COVID- 19 was engineered to prevent global population growth, and now on vaccine hesitancy, with some …
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SHOULD COMMUNICATION INTERVENTIONS PROMOTING HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL BEHAVIOR CHANGE ADDRESS MISINFORMATION BELIEFS? IMPLICATIONS FROM TWO NATIONALLY REPRESENTATIVE LONGITUDINAL SURVEY STUDIES AND A RANDOMIZED ONLINE EXPERIMENT
… behaviors of interest from misinformation and conspiracy theory beliefs that are relevant to, but are not explicitly specific to, these behaviors. Finally, Study 4 provides experimental evidence that such topic-related conspiracy theory and general misinformation beliefs do not constrain …
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Our enemy, ourselves: Political conspiracy in American cinema, 1970-present.
This thesis is an examination of "paranoid conspiracy" films, a film noir subgenre that emerged in mainstream American cinema in the early 1970s and turns on vast, shadowy conspiracies located within U.S. "power structures" (government agencies, the military, the media) and directed against the …
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The Contemporary British Novel and Conspiracy Theories: Hinges, Certainty, and Trust in Narrative Fiction
… investigation of literary representations of conspiracy theories as they appear in contemporary British fiction. Proposing an epistemic spectrum of conspiracy theories from the reasonable to the extreme, and focusing upon the centre of this spectrum, this thesis seeks to bring to literary …
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Conspiracy Narratives in Latin Literature
… different authors: Livy's account of the Bacchic conspiracy (39.8--19), the conspiracy of Calpurnius Piso in Tacitus' Annales (15.48--74), and Cicero's Catilinarians. All three stories have a similar pattern to their telling, and I argue that these similarities are in part the result of structural …
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CRACKING THE WORLD SYSTEM: MEDIATING PUBLIC PEDAGOGIES FROM THE “WORLD REVOLUTION” OF 1848
… experiments in the Americas. Pedagogies of conspiracy theory and Manifest Destiny legitimated US aggression against Mexico as the former took initial steps toward becoming a world system superpower. Problems and pedagogies from 1848 are also updated and examined in light of the contemporary …
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Conspiracy theories and political culture
This research is into the role of conspiracy theories in political culture. It is an investigation into the various aspects of political belief reflected in conspiracy theories. To research the topic a broadly Foucauldian approach is taken. The 'paranoid style' developed by American political …
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Trust in science is not the answer to conspiracies: It’s throwing water on a grease-fire
Conspiracy theories can be quite dangerous and have risen in prevalence. The rise of conspiracy theories has been met with an outcry to increase public trust in science. However, using trust in science to stop conspiracy theories may have unintended negative consequences. Trust in science entails …
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Extremism, fake news and hate: effects of social media in the post-truth era
… media using three distinct events, the birther conspiracy, the pizzagate conspiracy, and a Russian attempt to sow discord in US politics. Finally, this research shows how several virtual “imagined communities” utilized social media to mobilize physically in one of the largest white nationalist …
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“The Union of the South is the Safety of the South”: Conspiracy Theories, Sectionalism and the Secession Crisis in Virginia
This thesis examines the role of conspiracy theories in Virginia’s debates over secession in the critical months prior to the Civil War. As the largest of the fifteen slave states and home to many of the nation’s founders, Virginia’s decision on secession had far-reaching implications. Elected by …
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