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The Never-ending Disaster: 9/11 Conspiracy Theory and the Integration of Activist Documentary on Video Websites

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Pedersen P. O.
Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Film and Media Studies
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2013
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vol. 6
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issue 1
49-64
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The article examines how documentary film is transformed when distributed through video sharing web sites. The conspiracy-theoretical production Loose Change (2005, 2006, 2007, and 2009) is used as a case study of how the mediation process connected with net-based distribution affects the materiality of film and alters our conception of both visual evidence and genre. With a point of departure in the media theory of Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin and their twin concepts of immediacy and hypermediacy it is discussed how the film culture on the internet develops new media institutions and establishes what could be described as “live” archives. A concluding reflection illustrates how this type of film is part of an ongoing media-determined and cultural transformation of the documentary genre, a process that places its historical and political content halfway between fact and fiction
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COVID 19 conspiracy theories in Canada: Evidence, verification, and implications for decision making

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Travica B.
Journal of Economics and Management
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2022
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vol. 44
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Aim/purpose - The COVID-19 pandemic generated a new communication universe with numerous actors, including conspiracy theory (CT) promoters who spread skepticism about the authenticity of the pandemic and the necessity of health emergency regulations. This study explores the dissemination of COVID-19 conspiracy theories in Canada to create a model for verifying conspiracy theories, especially in the context of decision making. Design/methodology/approach - The study was transdisciplinary and it was composed of an empirical and a conceptual part. The first part used analysis of websites and social media, observation with participation for data collection, and standard content analysis for data analysis. The conceptual part used a philosophical inquiry and a framework on heuristics in decision making. Findings - The empirical part of the study established three types of conspiracy theory promoters and labeled these as Conspiracy Theory Mill, Busy Gunman, and Hyper Relay. The conceptual part of the study created a model for CT verification. The study extends conceptualizing of conspiracy theories by characterizing them as narratives based on arbitrary ontological assumptions, epistemic naïveté and flaws, and contorted and biased logic. These narratives represent a form of folkish storytelling and entertainment, which become dangerous in the state of a public health emergency. Research implications/limitations - The study has implications for research on conspiracy theories and for the theory of decision making. The study's insight into the Canadian conspiracy theory landscape is limited by the types of social contexts studied. The model for verifying a conspiracy theory, which the study developed, is still incipient in character and needs further validation. The model can be used in decision-making theory. Originality/value/contribution - The study confirms the literature on conspiracy theories originating in the areas of psychology and cultural studies. Beyond just exhibiting characteristics reported in the literature, the discovered three types of conspiracy theory promoters may advance the corresponding typology research. The model for verifying a conspiracy theory may contribute to research on the nature of conspiratorial content as well as to decision-making theory. Practically, the three promoter types and the verification model can be used as part of a blueprint for identifying and controlling conspiracy theories. Decision-makers at large may benefit, including those in health institutions, government, business as well as lay people.
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Paranoja a technologia. O teorii spiskowej w kontekście technofobii i postępu technologicznego

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Murawska S.
Studia Etnologiczne i Antropologiczne
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2016
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vol. 16
33-43
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The aim of the article is to show conspiratorial thinking combined with technophobia. The author presents the similarities and relations between conspiracy theories and other narratives (present in popular culture), which emerged as the aftermath of the Cold War and apocalyptic fears. The article presents three options for the perception of the relation between technology and conspiracy theories: in the context of dystopian and utopian cultural texts, and in the context of space as no-place, in which there operates a community centered around conspiracy theories.
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Privacy and Transparency in the 4th Space: Implications for Conspiracy Theories

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Abels C. M., Hardegger D.
Filozofia i nauka. Studia filozoficzne i interdyscyplinarne
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2022
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vol. 10, zeszyt specjalny
187-212
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This article investigates the role of privacy and transparency in the 4th Space and outlines their implications for the development and dissemination of conspiracy theories. We argue that privacy can be exploited by individuals and organizations to spread conspiracy theories online, while organizational transparency, intended to increase accountability and ultimately trust, can have the adverse effect and nurture conspiracy beliefs. Through the lens of the 4th Space concept, we offer suggestions on how to approach those challenges which emerge as a result of the complex entanglements of both actual and virtual world across time.
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Privacy and Transparency in the 4th Space: Implications for Conspiracy Theories

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Abels C. M., Hardegger D.
Filozofia i Nauka
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2022
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vol. 10, zeszyt specjalny
187-212
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This article investigates the role of privacy and transparency in the 4th Space and outlines their implications for the development and dissemination of conspiracy theories. We argue that privacy can be exploited by individuals and organizations to spread conspiracy theories online, while organizational transparency, intended to increase accountability and ultimately trust, can have the adverse effect and nurture conspiracy beliefs. Through the lens of the 4th Space concept, we offer suggestions on how to approach those challenges which emerge as a result of the complex entanglements of both actual and virtual world across time.
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Does digital media develop social paranoia? Dialogue on the presence of conspiracy theory in social media and mass culture

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Werner W., Trzoss A.
Nauka
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2019
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issue 3
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This article is in a sense a dialogue devoted to the presence of conspiracy theories on social media and mass culture. The authors present the current state of research on the development of digital culture and its social consequences. Next, a case study of the existence of the conspiracy theory of so-called Wielka Lechia is presented. In the analysis the authors combine theoretical and technical considerations of Web 2.0 with research inquiry, which is the analysis of the structure of the Great Lechia theory in social media. The problem of the popularity of the concept of Paweł Szydłowski's and Janusz Bieszk's has been referred to a wider context related to the modern functioning of historical knowledge on the Web. The factual orientation of historical education and the influence of social media on the functioning of the social dimension of history and historians have been indicated as the reason for the current state of the problem. Finally, the authors refer to the digital version of pseudoscience to its earlier analog counterparts and make a structural comparison of both. The effect of this confrontation is to point the phenomenon of remediation of conspiracy theories and the growing de-professionalization of discourse, which ultimately leads to the end of the era of intellectual authorities.
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Conspiracy Theories Are Not Only for Election Losers. Anti-system Parties and Conspiratorial Distrust in Poland

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Czech F.
Polish Political Science Yearbook
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2018
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vol. 4 (47)
663-675
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Using data from a nationally representative survey in Poland, this study looks at the links between post-election attitudes, ideology and conspiratorial distrust toward public sphere. The reference point is an argument made by Joseph Uscinski and Joseph Parent. They provide evidence that conspiracy theories are more popular among election losers in the United States. Data presented in the article shows a limitation of the argument and the special role of anti-system party in the Polish parliamentary election of 2015. Therefore, the more comprehensive understanding of conspiracy theories within the field of political science is discussed.
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Kiire ja tervislik toit – kas alati ka usaldusvaarne? Kaubanduslikud kuulujutud tanapaeva tarbimisuhiskonnas

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Eda K.
Mäetagused
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2015
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vol. 59
75-96
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The article gives an overview of the formation and origin of two food-related rumour cycles that have circulated in Estonia, various viewpoints and opinions about present-day consumption and trade, which have been highlighted in these rumours, discussions, comments in discussion forums and articles, as well as of people’s problems, fears, and stereotypic beliefs. The first commercial rumour about salad rinsing and other commercial frauds is of Estonian origin. Namely, in 2006 a rumour started to circulate in Estonian social networks and later on also in newspapers that local store chains were selling salads past the expiration date, with the spoiled dressing washed out and replaced with fresh. The second rumour, most probably of USA origin, was associated with international market and trade and began to spread in Estonia at the beginning of 2013, through a chain letter disseminated in social networking sites, warning people about the harmfulness of baby carrots.
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Tajemnica obrazu. Czescy pisarze prowadzą śledztwo w świecie sztuki

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Gawarecka A.
Forum Poetyki
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2018
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issue 13
6-23
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The structural parameters for crime literature have been the subject of numerous overviews, critical essays, and recapitulations. Yet the renaissance of this literature unfolding today calls for new interpretations. To be more specific, this renaissance takes place in a climate of postmodern penchants for popular narrative and structural schemas, a blending of genre categories, and a predilection for heterogeneous discourses. This very fact should compel us to reflect on the factors contributing to the thriller’s appeal as a genre form that writers so often evoke to provide the reader with a fictional and “deep” statement on the various deficits of the contemporary world.  In Czech literature, prose writers such as Roman Ludva and Miloš Urban have taken cues from Umberto Eco and Dan Brown’s tendencies to experiment with well-worn narrative strategies, as well as their local tradition (the tales of the 19th-century neoromantic Jakub Arbes). Following suit, Ludva and Urban embed the templates of the thriller in a broadly organized interrogation of the contemporary condition of art. Simultaneously, using the strategy of “amplified” intersemiosis, they impart an autothematic dimension to their narratives.
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Reguły konstrukcyjne literatury kryminalnej doczekały się licznych opisów, opracowań i rekapitulacji. Dzisiejszy renesans tej literatury wywołuje jednak potrzebę nowych odczytań i, zwłaszcza że odbywa się w atmosferze postmodernistycznej pobłażliwości dla korzystania z popularnych schematów fabularnych i konstrukcyjnych, mieszania kategorii gatunkowych oraz predylekcji do heterogenizacji dyskursów, zmusza do zastanowienia się nad przyczynami atrakcyjności thrillera jako formy genologicznej, po którą nierzadko sięgają pisarze, by zaprezentować czytelnikowi fikcjonalną wypowiedź „pogłębioną” o diagnozowanie rozmaitych mankamentów nowoczesnego świata. W literaturze czeskiej prozaicy Roman Ludva i Miloš Urban, zainspirowani nie tylko Ecowsko-Brownowską grą z utartymi rozwiązaniami fabularnymi, lecz także tradycją rodzimą (opowiadaniami dziewiętnastowiecznego neoromantyka, Jakuba Arbesa), wpisują szablony „dreszczowca” w szeroko zakrojoną dyskusję na temat współczesnej kondycji sztuki i jednocześnie – dzięki strategii „wzmożonej” intersemiotyczności – nadają swym narracjom wymiar autotematyczny.
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Masoneria w dyskursie polskich środowisk prawicowych po 1989 roku

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Strutyński M.
Wrocławskie Studia Politologiczne
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2018
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vol. 25
164-179
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Contemporary anti-masonic circles in Poland are noticeable on the political scene. There are numerous publications, both books and articles in right-wing magazines. Ideological schemas present in pre-war journalism of hostile freemasonry are still used. The situation in the Catholic Church is particularly interesting, especially in connection with the changes that take place in it from the Second Vatican Council, which is critically assessed by the Antimony community. Important elements in the anti-masonic discourse are issues related to globalization and the development of the European Union. Critics attribute these phenomena to the construction of the Masonic world government (New World Order).
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Saturation of the media with conspiracy narratives: content analysis of selected Polish news magazines

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Czech F.
Środkowoeuropejskie Studia Polityczne
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2019
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issue 2
151-171
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Artykuł ma trzy płaszczyzny: metodologiczną, teoretyczną i empiryczną. Punktem wyjścia do refleksji metodologicznej jest charakterystyka trzech głównych nurtów badawczych prowadzonych w ramach dynamicznie rozwijających się interdyscyplinarnych badań nad teoriami spiskowymi. Na takim tle omówiona jest analiza zawartości treści jako metoda badawcza pozwalająca w innowacyjny sposób uchwycić kluczowe zjawisko. W części teoretycznej przybliżona jest koncepcja narracji spiskowych w odniesieniu do potocznego rozumienia teorii spiskowych. Głównym celem części empirycznej jest określenie w jakim stopniu media są nasycone różnego rodzaju narracjami spiskowymi. Analiza obejmuje ponad 200 artykułów z dwóch opiniotwórczych tygodników („Sieci” i polska edycja „Newsweeka”), które znajdują się po dwóch stronach politycznego konfliktu w Polsce spolaryzowanych między innymi przez spiskowe podejrzenia dotyczące katastrofy prezydenckiego samolotu w 2010 roku w Rosji.
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The article has three dimensions: methodological, theoretical, and empirical. A point of departure for the methodological remarks is a characterization of the three main approaches in the vibrant interdisciplinary research field dealing with the phenomenon of conspiracy theories. In this context, the content analysis method is discussed as a promising approach to gain new data on conspiracy narratives. On the theoretical level, the concept of conspiracy narratives is discussed in reference to the popular understanding of the conspiracy theory. The main aim of the empirical part is determining to what extent the media are saturated with different kinds of conspiracy narratives. The analysis covers over 200 articles from two popular Polish news magazines (Sieci and the Polish edition of Newsweek) which occupy positions on opposite sides of the political divide in a society polarized, inter alia, by a conspiratorial suspicion that in 2010 an airplane carrying President Lech Kaczyński on board was deliberately crashed in Russia.
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Sens wyrażenia ‘teoria spiskowa’, czyli jak odróżnić teorię spiskową od niespiskowej

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Łukowski P., Łódzki U.
Internetowy Magazyn Filozoficzny Hybris
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2016
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vol. 33 (2)
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‘Conspiracy theory’ is especially popular term used by journalists in Poland. Alas, this name is understood in an intuitive and journalistic manner only, and has an eristic use. Janusz Guzowski in his paper tries to establish its definitional sense. Unfortunately, his proposal is useless, because conspiracy mentality is defined by common and fundamental features typical for everyday and even scientific thinking. Such an approach has some undesirable consequence: a theory is called conspiracy because in somebody’s opinion it is conspiracy. That is why, Guzowski’s approach is here called intuitive-content, because such a naming is arbitrary and intuitive and depends on the content of the theory. In our paper there is proposed an opposite context-free approach, which is closely relative to Chomksy’s opinion. Thus a theory is recognizes as conspiracy, if and only if, it is ignored by scientists.
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Wpływ pandemii na polską, bułgarską i czeską leksykologię w roku 2020 i na początku 2021

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Satoła-Staśkowiak J.
Językoznawstwo
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2021
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vol. 15
23-37
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I discuss the linguistic consequences of the current pandemic, such as the emergence of new words and/or an increase in the frequency of use of some pre-existing words, and issues linked to communication. The paper refers to the Polish, Bulgarian and Czech languages. A frequentative approach is applied. Although the outlined linguistic processes are global in nature, several key aspects differentiate the three chosen languages in terms of frequency (including the occurrence of words and functions of speech). The linguistic data was gathered using online resources, including: The National Corpus of Polish, the Czech National Corpus, the Bulgarian National Corpus, the Polish-Bulgarian-Russian parallel Corpus (co-authored by the author of this paper), popular word browsers (frazeo.pl, slowanaczasie) and digital dictionaries (miejski.pl), journalism and information programs, and some of the most recent academic literature.
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Przedmiotem uwagi są szybko następujące, podczas pandemii, konsekwencje językowe – leksykalne (nowe słowa, zwielokrotniona częstotliwość użycia istniejących słów) i komunikacyjne, stanowiące dla językoznawców ciekawą podstawę badań współczesnych języków, z których trzy: polski, bułgarski, czeski stały się fundamentem analizy i badań frekwencyjnych. Mimo, że omawiane procesy językowe mają charakter globalny, to tendencje leksykalne w poszczególnych językach, jak i funkcje mowy, realizowane są w różny sposób, z heterogenicznym natężeniem, dlatego warto przyjrzeć im się bliżej. Prezentowany w artykule materiał został wyekscerpowany z dostępnych w sieci i na bieżąco notujących jednostki języka źródeł. Były nimi korpusy językowe: Narodowy korpus języka polskiego, Bułgarski narodowy korpus, Czeski narodowy korpus, autorski Polsko-bułgarsko-rosyjski korpus równoległy, którego autorka artykułu jest współautorką i przeglądarki typu: frazeo.pl czy slowanaczasie oraz słowniki elektroniczne, np.: miejski.pl. Pomocne stały się polskie, bułgarskie i czeskie programy publicystyczne i informacyjne, a także najmłodsza, choć nieliczna, literatura naukowa.
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