TY - BOOK AU - Birchall, Clare AB - A voice on late night radio tells you that a fast food joint injects its food with drugs that make men impotent. A colleague asks if you think the FBI was in on 9/11. An alien abductee on the Internet claims extra-terrestrials have planted a microchip in her left buttock. 'Julia Roberts in Porn Scandal' shouts the front page of a gossip mag. A spiritual healer claims he can cure chronic fatigue syndrome with the energizing power of crystals . . . What do you believe? Knowledge Goes Pop examines the popular knowledges that saturate our everyday experience. We make this information and then it shapes the way we see the world. How valid is it when compared to official knowledge and why does such (mis)information cause so much institutional anxiety? Knowledge Goes Pop examines the range of knowledge, from conspiracy theory to plain gossip, and its role and impact in our culture.What do you believe? This title examines the popular knowledges that

saturate our everyday experience. How valid is it when compared to

official knowledge and why does such (mis)information cause so much

institutional anxiety? It examines the range of knowledge, from

conspiracy theory to plain gossip, and its role and impact in our

culture.Clare Birchall is Senior Lecturer at Middlesex University. DO - 10.26530/OAPEN_390769 ID - OAPEN ID: 390769 ID - OAPEN ID: OCN: 290552422 ID - OAPEN ID: 874264839 KW - cultural studies KW - sociology KW - culturele studies KW - sociologie KW - Conspiracy theory KW - Gossip KW - Jacques Derrida L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/546f9ba0-3b06-43c3-a8b6-d56c30e85adb/390769.pdf LA - English LK - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/34636 PB - Berg Publishers PP - Oxford PY - 2006 TI - Knowledge Goes Pop : From Conspiracy Theory to Gossip ER -