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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... view more
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."... view less
Keywords
Russia; Ukraine; semiotics; epidemic; disinformation; social media; ideology
Classification
Media Contents, Content Analysis
Interactive, electronic Media
Free Keywords
Covid-19; QAnon; Telegram; conspiracy; figurative reasoning
Document language
English
Publication Year
2023
Page/Pages
p. 64-75
Journal
Media and Communication, 11 (2023) 2
Issue topic
Fakespotting: (Dis)Information Literacy as Key Tool to Defend Democracy
ISSN
2183-2439
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed