Conspiracy theories as narratives

Conspiracy theories as narratives - Uni Münster

Conspiracy theorists report on how actors cause a certain event or situation, their report is a narrative.

Investigating conspiracy theories in the light of narrative persuasion

Conspiracy theories (CTs) are beliefs that "two or more actors have coordinated in secret to achieve an outcome, and that their conspiracy is of public ...

Full article: Conspiracy theories and the epistemic power of narratives

I argue that the way false conspiracy theories are disseminated often involves packaging them as part of narratives that offer comforting alternatives to ugly ...

Thirty shades of truth: conspiracy theories as stories of individuation ...

We present a new theoretical and methodological approach which acknowledges conspiracy theories as a means of constructing and communicating a set of personal ...

Conspiracy Narratives as a Type of Social Myth - PMC

'” The label of “conspiracy theories“ is used as “a sign of narrative disqualification“ (Bratich, 2008, p. 4) which tells us “less about the ...

Thirty shades of truth: conspiracy theories as stories of individuation ...

Given a set of statements about a dramatic historic event (in our case 9/11) that includes official testimonies, allegations to a conspiracy and extremely ...

Toolkit on dealing with conspiracy narratives, July 2023

Conspiracy narratives are special in the way that they blame what is wrong with a person's life, or the world in general, on a supposedly hidden ...

How conspiracy theories emerge – and how their storylines fall apart

Researchers produced a graphic representation of the narratives they analyzed, with layers for major subplots of each story, and lines ...

Strategic Conspiracy Narratives: A Semiotic Approach - 1st Edition - M

Strategic Conspiracy Narratives proposes an innovative semiotic perspective for analysing how contemporary conspiracy theories are used for shaping ...

Conspiracy Theories and the Epistemic Power of Narratives.

I argue that the way false conspiracy theories are disseminated often involves packaging them as part of narratives that offer comforting alternatives to ugly ...

Why We Fall for Conspiracy Theories - LSU Faculty Websites

The periodic emergence of narratives about clandestine, malevolent actors secretly plotting political and social calamities influences policy debate about ...

CONSPIRACY NARRATIVES & DISINFORMATION

“QAnon” and “#Pizzagate” are two conspiracy theories falling precisely under this category. QAnon is an extreme-right–wing conspiracy theory ...

Conspiracy and narrative, pt 1 - tis.so

Conspiracy theories carry within them a poison pill. Justifiably so, they contend that official narratives of controversial historical events, ...

Culture, Community and Narratives: Key Elements of Violent ...

A near-universal feature of conspiracy theories is that they evoke profoundly negative emotions. They centre feelings of grievance, resentment ...

On Narrative Approaches to Conspiracy Theory - eGrove

QAnon conspiracy theory as a case study in discussing two innovations within conspiracy narrative: protagonist and non-narrativism. 9. Page 11 ...

[2407.10745] What distinguishes conspiracy from critical narratives ...

However, these approaches fail to recognize the relevance of distinguishing between texts which contain a conspiracy theory and texts which are ...

Conspiracy Narratives and Cosmopolitanism: Friends or Warring ...

Historical developments of conspiratorial representations (whether fictional or pseudo-factual) and perceptions of globality share various features, as I show ...

Conspiracy theories and the epistemic power of narratives.

We often turn to comforting stories to distract ourselves from emotionally painful truths. This paper explores a dark side of this tendency.

View of Conspiracy Theories - DIEGESIS

In fact, what initially got me interested in the phenomenon was the chapter “Uncovering the Plot: Conspiracy Theory as Narrative” in Mark Fen-ster's seminal ...

What conspiracy theories have in common with fiction

Conspiracy theories draw directly on elements of storytelling that are found in fiction rather than factual narratives.