Conspiracy movements like QAnon are a kind of cultural virus that spreads rapidly and widely in the new global media environment. Like invasive species, they spread into diverse cultural ecosystems, colonizing them even as they take on new forms that mimic each environment’s original inhabitants. To understand how they do this, we need to understand […]
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‘Do your own research’: Conspiracy practice as media virus
Posted in Cultural politics, Media ecology, Science & society, tagged Anomalies, biological metaphors, Catholicism, conspiracies, conspiracy cult, conspiracy culture, conspiracy entrepreneurs, conspiracy theories, conspiratistics, conspiratology, cults, environmental communication, global capitalism, inequality, media ecologies, media ecology, new religious movements, QAnon, Trumpism, Vigano on January 5, 2021 | Leave a Comment »
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