Conspiracy as Genre

Narrative, Power, and Circulation
Herausgeber: Tebaldi, Catherine; Purschke, Christoph; Plum, Alistair

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An exploration of diverse critical approaches to conspiracy narratives representing them as playful stories with serious ideologies and effects.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 561g
• ISBN-13: 9781350467873
• ISBN-10: 1350467871
• Artikelnr.: 72699547

Autorenporträt

Catherine Tebaldi is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Digital and Linguistic Anthropology at the Culture and Computation Lab at the University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg. Alistair Plum is Postdoctoral Researcher in Computational Linguistics at the Culture and Computation Lab at the University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg. Christoph Purschke is Head of the Culture and Computation Lab and Professor in Computational Linguistics at the University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction, Catherine Tebaldi (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Part I: Narrative
2. There is (Not) Intelligent Life Outside Earth: A Semiotic Approach to
Conspiracy Theories, Douglas Firmino dos Santos and Lucas Felipe de
Oliveira Santiago (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil)
3. From Epistemic to Hermetic Paranoia: Conspiracy Cinema and Its Digital
Legacy, Johannes Pause (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
4. Populist Experts and Alt-Expertise: On the Expertise and Meta-Expertise
of the Anti-Vaccine Movement, James Slotta (UT Austin, USA)
5. "Side Effects Include:" COVID Conspiracy Theory and Narrative Resonance
on 4chan's /pol/, Dillon Ludemann (University of South Carolina, USA)
Part II: Power
6. Anti-Feminist Conspiracy Theories, Megan Kelly (University of Basel,
Switzerland) and Alex DiBranco (Yale University, USA)
7. Moral Panic, Transphobia, and Cultural Marxism, Kat Fuller and
Quinnehtukqut McLamore (University of Nevada, USA)
8. A 'victory for white life': Intertextuality and Mainstreaming of
Far-Right Conspiracy Theories in Abortion Discourse, Kristen Fleckenstein
(Carolina Coastal University, USA)
9. 'FOR HUMANITY - FIGHT - LEARN': Building and Exercising a Suitable
History in QAnon, Harrison Pates (King's College London, UK)
10. Anti-Intellectualism and the Conspiracy Theory of Cultural Marxism,
Joan Braune (Gonzaga University, USA)
Part III: Circulation
11. Recontextualized Knowledge and Narrative Coalitions on Telegram, Tom
Willaert (Brussels School of Governance, Belgium)
12. All the World's a Story? Contemporary Narrative Analysis and
Conspiracy: A View from Brazil, Naomi Orton (Pontifícia Universidade
Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
13. Gender Based Health Disinformation Narratives: A Social Media Analysis
of the HPV Vaccine Case in Italy, Lorella Viola (University of Luxembourg,
Luxembourg)
Index