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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Conspiracy theories"”.
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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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The social psychological consequences of conspiracy theories
Conspiracy theories point accusing fingers at authorities, and offer alternatives to official explanations. Scholars have argued that in doing so, they may therefore subvert social systems and undermine confidence in established political, health and environmental positions. In this thesis we …
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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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Grassy Knoll-Edges: Conspiracy Theories and Political Rationality in the 1990s
… dissertation studies the recent proliferation of conspiracy theories in the United States and the attending ways official analyses have assessed them as a political problem. First, I examine the common representations of conspiracy theories by prominent cultural texts and institutions. Mainstream …
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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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Teaching and measuring critical thinking as a Mmans of improving appraisal of conspiracy theories
… discernment between plausible and implausible conspiracy theories? For this purpose, this thesis consists of four studies that aim to address a core gap in the existing literature. First, there has been no review to date that has comprehensively compared the efficacy of psychological …
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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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‘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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A Comparative Study on Feature Extraction and Classification/Clustering of Fake News and Conspiracy Theories from Twitter Data
<p>Fake news and conspiracy theories have become largely abundant in the expanding world of social media. They predominantly affect the beliefs and thoughts of the public, resulting in chaos. They have always existed throughout the last few decades. They have been linked to prejudice, revolutions …
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Conspiracy, Controversy, and the Classroom: Exploring the Prevalence and Significance of Conspiracy Theories among Youth Cultures in London
… an interdisciplinary engagement with a range of theories and debates, I identify a gap in these literatures in terms of investigating the impact of conspiracy theories on youth cultures, as well as gaps in the literature on teaching controversial issues in relation to conspiracy theories. By …
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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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Jaunų žmonių (25-30 m.) kritinio mąstymo, išsilavinimo ir tikėjimo sąmokslo teorijomis sąveika /
… more people, especially the young, to believe in conspiracy theories. This raises questions about whether university students are effectively taught critical thinking skills that would help combat misinformation. Therefore, this paper examines the interaction between education, critical thinking, …
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Tinfoil hats and togas : conspiracy ideation and the dark triad amongst university students
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought the term ‘Conspiracy theories’ to the fore, and different groups of people have been found to subscribe to such beliefs more than others. For instance, individuals high in Dark Triad personality traits (Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy) may be …
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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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A Conspiratorial Republic: The Societal and Political Impact of Conspiratorial Knowledge in the Early Nineteenth-Century United States
… society. Drawing on Michael Butter’s study of conspiracy theories, this study examines how early Americans continued to view republican government as inherently fragile and continuously under threat from corrupting forces. This conspiratorial belief established the common American worldviews …
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Conspirituality in the Age of TikTok: A Thematic Analysis of #AgeofAquarius
… is associated with conspirituality and far-right conspiracy theories. The methodology of the study was a deductive reflexive thematic analysis of user-generated content on the Age of Aquarius hashtag on TikTok, using the search engine function to collect data. The findings demonstrate a clear …
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Peircean Epistemic Democracy: Truth, Pluralism, and Religion
… that are out of the ordinary, for example, conspiracy theories. But if conspiracy theories or other non-traditional modes of reasoning are rampant in democratic deliberation, then there may be a decline in the epistemic functioning of democracy, thus endangering the epistemic justification …
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Decoding belief: neural mechanisms of conspiracy message evaluation
Conspiracy theories present emotionally salient and socially consequential information that may influence credibility evaluation, particularly in online environments where social cues are prevalent. Although behavioral predictors of conspiracy belief have been widely studied, little is known about …
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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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THE CORNERSTONE OF A CONSPIRACY: THE ROLE OF HUMAN-WILDLIFE PERCEPTIONS IN THE MASS DISBELIEF IN THE EBOLA VIRUS, NORTHERN SIERRA LEONE
… me deep into the ethnographically rich world of conspiracy theories, which I attempted to trace back to large-scale missteps and colonial threads that still deeply affect the country today. My ethnographic data collection included 21 focus group interviews, and in-depth individual interviews with …
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