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Accessing to a "Truer Truth": Conspiracy and Figurative Reasoning From Covid-19 to the Russia-Ukraine War
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Abstract This research hypothesizes that all conspiracy theories have dominating isotopies and images-symbols regardless of ideology or context. As a result, I hypothesized that the common denominator might be discovered in figurative reasoning, which means using the same representations to explain current e... mehr
This research hypothesizes that all conspiracy theories have dominating isotopies and images-symbols regardless of ideology or context. As a result, I hypothesized that the common denominator might be discovered in figurative reasoning, which means using the same representations to explain current events, in order to detect an ideal center of the semantic universe of conspiracy where the diverse conspiracist fringes converge. Social media invariant topicalizations of the Covid-19 epidemic and the Russia-Ukraine war are the ideal field to validate this hypothesis. The corpus on which the study was conducted consists of thousands of online items published between February 15, 2020, and October 15, 2022. Within the corpus were chosen posts by QAnon supporters designated as disinformation "superspreaders."... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Russland; Ukraine; Semiotik; Epidemie; Desinformation; Soziale Medien; Ideologie
Klassifikation
Medieninhalte, Aussagenforschung
interaktive, elektronische Medien
Freie Schlagwörter
Covid-19; QAnon; Telegram; conspiracy; figurative reasoning
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2023
Seitenangabe
S. 64-75
Zeitschriftentitel
Media and Communication, 11 (2023) 2
Heftthema
Fakespotting: (Dis)Information Literacy as Key Tool to Defend Democracy
ISSN
2183-2439
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)