A bibliographic archeology of game-like conspiracy narratives: examining the Ong’s Hat Incunabula catalog DOI
James A. Hodges

Journal of Documentation, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: April 18, 2025

Purpose This paper aims to reframe contemporary research on conspiracy narratives by examining a formative document in online culture using bibliographic archeology and focusing its use of intertextuality. Design/methodology/approach The study’s methodology is archeology. After identifying that particularly notable the genealogy cultures, instances intertextuality are counted classified. Next, patterns data identified compared against interpretive frameworks proposed existing literature. Findings Although Ong’s Hat narrative constructed combination authentic fictional sources, both subjected same techniques. These techniques include antagonistic framing other features consistent with Walter concept “secondary orality.” Originality/value establishes genealogical connections between recent game-like movements one their early antecedents. By intertextuality’s role constructing such narratives, also demonstrates methodologies’ utility explaining cohesion narratives.

Language: Английский

True believers, entertainers, and skeptical scholars: claims and frames on conspiracy TikTok DOI

Courtlyn Pippert,

Katherine Furl, Alice Marwick

et al.

Journal of Information Technology & Politics, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 1 - 16

Published: Feb. 12, 2025

Language: Английский

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Queer women prefer older sisters: the onee-san voice, the woman game streamer Southern Senior Female Schoolfellow, and the Aurora Australis fandom DOI
Jamie J. Zhao

Popular Communication, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 1 - 20

Published: Feb. 19, 2025

Language: Английский

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“You’re like the cute harmless version of QAnon”: Taylor Swift “Gaylor” subreddits and microconspiracy archives, affects, and aesthetics DOI
Olivia Stowell

International Journal of Cultural Studies, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: March 16, 2025

This article takes the online subculture Gaylor (theories speculating that pop star Taylor Swift is queer and encodes themes in her music persona) as a case study to argue style, tropes, aesthetic vernaculars of conspiracy theorizing have dispersed into other social arenas without maintaining wide-ranging scale proper, creating what I term “microconspiracies.” By engaging non-participant observation community on forum platform Reddit, demonstrate how digital microconspiracy spaces engage with aesthetics, yet deploy them minor toward ends. Understanding opens up new ways thinking about cultures, while also charting extension conspiracy's style beyond domains it conventionally imagined inhabit. pointing theorizing's ability work across axes macro/micro scale/scope, offer revised understanding theories conspiracy-thinking, their roles contemporary culture.

Language: Английский

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A bibliographic archeology of game-like conspiracy narratives: examining the Ong’s Hat Incunabula catalog DOI
James A. Hodges

Journal of Documentation, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: April 18, 2025

Purpose This paper aims to reframe contemporary research on conspiracy narratives by examining a formative document in online culture using bibliographic archeology and focusing its use of intertextuality. Design/methodology/approach The study’s methodology is archeology. After identifying that particularly notable the genealogy cultures, instances intertextuality are counted classified. Next, patterns data identified compared against interpretive frameworks proposed existing literature. Findings Although Ong’s Hat narrative constructed combination authentic fictional sources, both subjected same techniques. These techniques include antagonistic framing other features consistent with Walter concept “secondary orality.” Originality/value establishes genealogical connections between recent game-like movements one their early antecedents. By intertextuality’s role constructing such narratives, also demonstrates methodologies’ utility explaining cohesion narratives.

Language: Английский

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