Re: [Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 50, Issue 10
For more on conspiracy theory, you could see Clare Birchall's Knowledge Goes Pop: From Conspiracy Theory to Gossip (London: Berg, 2006). There is also her essay in Culture Machine, Vol. 6, 2004: 'Just Because You're Paranoid, Doesn't Mean They're Not Out to Get You'. It's online at: http://www.culturemachine.net/index.php/cm/article/view/12/11 Gary -- Gary Hall Professor of Media and Performing Arts School of Art and Design, Coventry University Co-editor of Culture Machine http://www.culturemachine.net Director of the Cultural Studies Open Access Archive http://www.culturemachine.net/csearch Co-founder of the Open Humanities Press http://www.openhumanitiespress.org My website http://www.garyhall.info Gary air-l-request@listserv.aoir.org wrote:
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1. Conspiracy Groups (CJ Pascoe) 2. Re: Conspiracy Groups (Erika S. Poole) 3. Re: Conspiracy Groups (Holly Kruse) 4. Re: Conspiracy Groups (KMV) 5. Re: Conspiracy Groups (Nishant Shah) 6. another web-based research/citation manager (jeremy hunsinger) 7. Re: New AoIR website (Dominik M. Rosenauer) 8. Collating and sharing blogging-related references (David Brake) 9. Re: Collating and sharing blogging-related references (jeremy hunsinger)
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Message: 1 Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:54:17 -0600 From: CJ Pascoe <c.j.pascoe@coloradocollege.edu> Subject: [Air-L] Conspiracy Groups To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Message-ID: <60C91EB2-1C01-48DB-89B4-6AE56A57B3DF@coloradocollege.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes
I'm hoping that the combined wisdom of this list can point me in the correct direction. One of my undergraduate students is writing her senior thesis on American 9/11 conspiracy theory groups. I can help her with a general sociological framing of these groups, but I'm not sure where to direct her in terms of literature on new media and conspiracy groups (apart from a good This American Life episode from National Public Radio). Do any of you have suggestions for specific articles/books on conspiracy theory groups and their use of new media?
Thanks, CJ ___________________________________________ C.J. Pascoe Assistant Professor Department of Sociology Colorado College
Phone: 719-389-6735 Web: http://faculty1.coloradocollege.edu/~cpascoe Dude Book: http://ucpress.edu/books/pages/10671.html Digital Youth: http://digitalyouth.ischool.berkeley.edu
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Message: 2 Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:57:37 -0400 From: "Erika S. Poole" <erika@cc.gatech.edu> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Conspiracy Groups To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Message-ID: <48C87B11.8060108@cc.gatech.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
You might be interested in the book "The Age of Anxiety: Conspiracy Theory and the Human Sciences" edited by J. Parish and M. Parker.
Best of luck!
Erika Shehan Poole PhD student, Human-Centered Computing Georgia Institute of Technology http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~erika
CJ Pascoe wrote:
I'm hoping that the combined wisdom of this list can point me in the correct direction. One of my undergraduate students is writing her senior thesis on American 9/11 conspiracy theory groups. I can help her with a general sociological framing of these groups, but I'm not sure where to direct her in terms of literature on new media and conspiracy groups (apart from a good This American Life episode from National Public Radio). Do any of you have suggestions for specific articles/books on conspiracy theory groups and their use of new media?
Thanks, CJ ___________________________________________ C.J. Pascoe Assistant Professor Department of Sociology Colorado College
Phone: 719-389-6735 Web: http://faculty1.coloradocollege.edu/~cpascoe Dude Book: http://ucpress.edu/books/pages/10671.html Digital Youth: http://digitalyouth.ischool.berkeley.edu
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Message: 3 Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:05:31 -0500 From: Holly Kruse <holly-kruse@utulsa.edu> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Conspiracy Groups To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Message-ID: <E424E5DD-4ACD-4E94-924C-BD1D16EDE0B5@utulsa.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed
Mark Fenster's _Conspiracy Theories: Secrecy and Power in American Culture_ has just come out in a revised edition that deals with 9/11 conspiracy theories. The original included analysis of the alt.conspiracy Usenet newsgroup. Here's the link:
http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/f/fenster_conspiracy.html
I'm hoping that the combined wisdom of this list can point me in the correct direction. One of my undergraduate students is writing her senior thesis on American 9/11 conspiracy theory groups. I can help her with a general sociological framing of these groups, but I'm not sure where to direct her in terms of literature on new media and conspiracy groups (apart from a good This American Life episode from National Public Radio). Do any of you have suggestions for specific articles/books on conspiracy theory groups and their use of new media?
Holly
----- Holly Kruse Faculty of Communication The University of Tulsa 800 S. Tucker Drive Tulsa, OK 74104 918-631-3845 holly-kruse@utulsa.edu or holly.kruse@gmail.com http://personal.utulsa.edu/~holly-kruse
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Message: 4 Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:14:57 -0700 From: KMV <cuuixsilver@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Conspiracy Groups To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Message-ID: <a4123b700809101914q3eef7956g9f2c1e91db136959@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
In 2006 V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media in Rotterdam had an even called Tangent Conspiracy. As part of That, Florian Cramer gave a great talk about the connection between the web and conspiracies. The video is archived here: http://www.v2.nl/portal2004/events/channel/item.sxml?uri=urn:v2:portal2004:r...
He talks about the web as inherently paranoid, about hacker culture and conspiracy theories, and a historical survey of some representative conspiracies, and mentions 9/11. It might be helpful as an example of a different way of framing.
Also, I believe Brian Massumi has done some useful writing about 9/11 paranoia generally: "Fear (The Spectrum Said)" *positions: east asia cultures critique* 13.1 (2005) 31-48 -- http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/positions/v013/13.1massumi.html
and this: "Potential Politics and the Primacy of Preemption" Theory and Event 10:2 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/theory_and_event/v010/10.2massumi.html
You need access through a library or university though.
Best,
Kim
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 6:54 PM, CJ Pascoe <c.j.pascoe@coloradocollege.edu>wrote:
I'm hoping that the combined wisdom of this list can point me in the correct direction. One of my undergraduate students is writing her senior thesis on American 9/11 conspiracy theory groups. I can help her with a general sociological framing of these groups, but I'm not sure where to direct her in terms of literature on new media and conspiracy groups (apart from a good This American Life episode from National Public Radio). Do any of you have suggestions for specific articles/books on conspiracy theory groups and their use of new media?
Thanks, CJ ___________________________________________ C.J. Pascoe Assistant Professor Department of Sociology Colorado College
Phone: 719-389-6735 Web: http://faculty1.coloradocollege.edu/~cpascoe<http://faculty1.coloradocollege.edu/%7Ecpascoe> Dude Book: http://ucpress.edu/books/pages/10671.html Digital Youth: http://digitalyouth.ischool.berkeley.edu
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