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Publications

Members of the project have had numerous reports published and have appeared in the media to discuss conspiracy theories

Academic publications
  • Birchall, Clare and Peter Knight. Conspiracy Theories in the Time of Covid-19. London: Routledge, October 2022.
  • Kelly, Annie. ‘QAnon and on: An Ever-Evolving Conspiracy Theory Built on Denial.’ The Sociological Review Magazine, 10 May 2022. https://doi.org/10.51428/tsr.wkgb3826.
  • Harambam, Jaron, Kamile Grusauskaite, and Lars de Wildt. ‘Poly-Truth, or the Limits of Pluralism: Popular Debates on Conspiracy Theories in a Post-Truth Era.’ Public Understanding of Science, 28 April 2022, 09636625221092145. https://doi.org/10.1177/09636625221092145.
  • Grusauskaite, Kamile, Jaron Harambam, and Stef Aupers. ‘Picturing Opaque Power: How Conspiracy Theorists Construct Oppositional Videos on YouTube.’ Social Media + Society 8, no. 2 (1 April 2022): 20563051221089570. https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051221089568.
  • Shane, Tommy, Tom Willaert, and Marc Tuters. ‘The Rise of ‘Gaslighting’: Debates about Disinformation on Twitter and 4chan, and the Possibility of a ‘Good Echo Chamber”. Popular Communication, 10 March 2022, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/15405702.2022.2044042.
  • Harambam, Jaron, Kamile Grusauskaite, and Lars de Wildt. ‘Poly-Truth, or the Limits of Pluralism: Popular Debates on Conspiracy Theories in a Post-Truth Era’. Public Understanding of Science, 28 April 2022, 09636625221092145. https://doi.org/10.1177/09636625221092145.
  • Birchall, Clare, and Peter Knight. ‘Do Your Own Research: Conspiracy Theories and the Internet’. Social Research: An International Quarterly 89, no. 3 (2022): 579–605. https://doi.org/10.1353/sor.2022.0049.
  • Tuters, Marc, Tom Willaert, and Trisha Meyer. ‘How Science Gets Drawn Into Global Conspiracy Narratives’. Issues in Science and Technology 29, no. 3 (1 April 2023): 32–36. https://doi.org/10.58875/POZR1536.
  • Butter, Michael, and Peter Knight, eds. Covid Conspiracy Theories in Global Perspective. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2023.
  • De Wildt, Lars, and Stef Aupers. ‘Participatory Conspiracy Culture: Believing, Doubting and Playing with Conspiracy Theories on Reddit’. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 2 June 2023, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1177/13548565231178914.
  • Birchall, Clare, and Peter Knight. ‘Has Conspiracy Theory Run out of Steam?’ In Theory Conspiracy, edited by Frida Beckman and Jeffrey R. Di Leo, 149–67. London: Routledge, 2023.
Journalism and interviews
Presentations
  • Peter Knight, ‘Do Your Own Research! Conspiracy Theories in the Age of the Internet,’ ‘Conspiratorial Memory’ Workshop, University of Amsterdam, June 2022
  • Clare Birchall and Peter Knight, ‘Has Conspiracy Theory Run out of Steam?’ Society for Critical Exchange, Thirteenth Annual Theory Institute, ‘Theory Conspiracy,’ Stockholm University, June 2022
  • Clare Birchall, ‘Conspiracy Theories as Hypervisibility Management.’ International Communication Association, Paris, May 2022.
  • Peter Knight, ‘Conspiracy Theories, Normies and Weird Beliefs,’ NIAS Expert Workshop on ‘The Normal and the Weird,’ Amsterdam, May 2022
  • Edward K. Spencer, ‘When Donald Trump Dropped the Bass: For a Digital Sociology of Musical Trolling,’ Faculty of Music Research Colloquium, University of Oxford, May 2022.
  • Clare Birchall, ‘Haute Baroque Bling: Style, Taste and Distinction in the Study of Conspiracist Populism.’ Conspiracy Theories and Leftwing Populism, Tübingen University, March 2022.
  • Peter Knight, ‘Infodemic: Combatting Covid-19 Conspiracy Theories,’ International Public and Political Communication (IPPC) conference, University of Sheffield, April 2022
  • Clare Birchall and Peter Knight, ‘”The timing was impeccable”: Web 1.0 Conspiracy Entrepreneurs,” Ethnography and Qualitative Research Conference, Trento, June 2023
  • Annie Kelly, ‘Everything is Connected: Local Approaches to the Great Reset’, EQRC, Trento
  • Lars de Wildt, ‘All the World is Staged: How the “Birds Aren’t Real” conspiracy theory plays with truth’, EQRC, Trento
  • Edward Katrak Spencer, ‘“There’s nothing funny about QAnon”: Listening to laughter in the company of Beyoncé’, EQRC, Trento
  • Marc Tuters, ‘Everything is literally connected: Studying online conspiracy theories inductively through longitudinal co-hashtag networks’, EQRC, Trento
  • Matthias De Bondt, Stef Aupers, Roel Vande Winkel, ‘From fact to fiction (and back): Fiction as a tool of imagination in contemporary conspiracy culture’, EQRC, Trento
The University of Manchester