Jesse A. Fivecoate, a folklorist and sociocultural anthropologist with a PhD from Indiana University, studies the use of communal belief narratives that circulate within a group as a way of remembering and discussing episodes of conflict and crisis. He is a coeditor of Advancing Folkloristics. Andrea Kitta is a folklorist and a professor of multicultural and transnational literature in the Department of English at East Carolina University. She is the author of Vaccinations and Public Concern in History: Legend, Rumor, and Risk Perception and The Kiss of Death: Contamination, Contagion, and Folklore as well as a coeditor of Diagnosing Folklore: Perspectives on Health, Trauma, and Disability.
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Acknowledgments Conspiracy Theory: A Folkloristic Introduction Part I. Folkloric Approaches 1 What History Tells Us about QAnon Bill Ellis 2 Interrogating “Conspiracism” and the Relationship between Historical and Contemporary Conspiracy David Guignion Theories 3 The SLAP Test and Conspiracy Theories about COVID-19, Bill Gates, and the Denver Airport Jeannie Banks Thomas 4 QAnon in Four Pieces: Toward a Folkloric Understanding of a Superconspiracy John Bodner Part II. (De)Constructing Conspiracy Theories 5 Worse Than the Disease: The Mask Cartoons of Ben Garrison Ian Brodie 6 Conspiracy Theories as a Form of Literature Lisa M. Ruch 7 Computational Methods for the Study of Conspiracy Theories Timothy R. Tangherlini, Shadi Shahsavari, Pavan Holur, and Vwani Roychowdhury Part III. Circulation and Political Contexts 8 Conspiracy Thinking as Political Boundary Work: COVID-19 Conspiracy Narratives in Iran Afsane Rezaei 9 I Tell My People the Truth: COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories and the Performance of Vernacular Authority in Religious Social Networks in Malawi Anika Wilson 10 When a Demonology Meets Live-Action Role-Play: QAnon and the Creation of a Social Media Witch Scare Sandra Grady 11 Can Narratives Counteract Conspiratorial Thinking? Darin DeWitt and Matthew D. Atkinson Contributors Index
Acknowledgments Conspiracy Theory: A Folkloristic Introduction Part I. Folkloric Approaches 1 What History Tells Us about QAnon Bill Ellis 2 Interrogating “Conspiracism” and the Relationship between Historical and Contemporary Conspiracy David Guignion Theories 3 The SLAP Test and Conspiracy Theories about COVID-19, Bill Gates, and the Denver Airport Jeannie Banks Thomas 4 QAnon in Four Pieces: Toward a Folkloric Understanding of a Superconspiracy John Bodner Part II. (De)Constructing Conspiracy Theories 5 Worse Than the Disease: The Mask Cartoons of Ben Garrison Ian Brodie 6 Conspiracy Theories as a Form of Literature Lisa M. Ruch 7 Computational Methods for the Study of Conspiracy Theories Timothy R. Tangherlini, Shadi Shahsavari, Pavan Holur, and Vwani Roychowdhury Part III. Circulation and Political Contexts 8 Conspiracy Thinking as Political Boundary Work: COVID-19 Conspiracy Narratives in Iran Afsane Rezaei 9 I Tell My People the Truth: COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories and the Performance of Vernacular Authority in Religious Social Networks in Malawi Anika Wilson 10 When a Demonology Meets Live-Action Role-Play: QAnon and the Creation of a Social Media Witch Scare Sandra Grady 11 Can Narratives Counteract Conspiratorial Thinking? Darin DeWitt and Matthew D. Atkinson Contributors Index
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