Online Conspiracy Theories, Digital Platforms and Secondary Orality: Toward a Sociology of Online Monsters

Theory, Culture and Society 39 (5):61-80 (2022)
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Reviving the somewhat forgotten notion of ‘secondary orality’, this paper conceptualizes online conspiracism as a creative, if monstrous, response to the attention economy of social media. Combining classic literature on oral cultures and current research on online subcultures, this paper takes conspiratorial folklore seriously and develops a program of research into its features and into its surprising adaptation to the attention regime of digital media.

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