Clare Birchall (UK King's College London), Peter Knight (UK University of Manchester)

Conspiracy Theories in the Time of Covid-19

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Produktbeschreibung

Conspiracy Theories in the Time of Covid-19 provides a wide-ranging analysis of the emergence and development of conspiracy theories during the Covid-19 pandemic, with a focus on the US and the UK.

Produktdetails

• Conspiracy Theories
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 154mm x 237mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 410g
• ISBN-13: 9781032324999
• ISBN-10: 1032324996
• Artikelnr.: 64666032

Autorenporträt

Clare Birchall is Professor of Contemporary Culture at King's College London, UK. She is the author of Knowledge Goes Pop: From Conspiracy Theory to Gossip, Shareveillance: The Dangers of Openly Sharing and Covertly Collecting Data, and Radical Secrecy: The Ends of Transparency in Datafied America. Peter Knight is Professor of American Studies at the University of Manchester, UK. He is the author of Conspiracy Culture, The Kennedy Assassination, and Reading the Market, and is co-author of Invested. He is the editor of Conspiracy Nation and Conspiracy Theories in American History , and the co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Conspiracy Theories.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Pandemic, Plandemic, Infodemic 1. Deep Background: The
Contexts of Conspiracy Theory 2. Infodemic: Metaphor, Measurement and Moral
Panic 3. A Year of Covid-19 Conspiracy Theories: Part 1 4. A Year of
Covid-19 Conspiracy Theories: Part 2 5. Coalitions of Distrust: Features of
Coronavirus Conspiracy Theories 6. Conspiracy Entrepreneurs and Marketplace
Bots 7. Infrastructural Design and Disinfo Capitalism Conclusion:
Confronting Conspiracism