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

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

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 cons...

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