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    Knowledge Goes Pop

    From Conspiracy Theory to Gossip

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    Birchall, Clare
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    English
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    Abstract
    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 <br/><br/>saturate our everyday experience. How valid is it when compared to <br/><br/>official knowledge and why does such (mis)information cause so much <br/><br/>institutional anxiety? It examines the range of knowledge, from <br/><br/>conspiracy theory to plain gossip, and its role and impact in our <br/><br/>culture.Clare Birchall is Senior Lecturer at Middlesex University.
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    http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/34636
    Keywords
    cultural studies; sociology; culturele studies; sociologie; Conspiracy theory; Gossip; Jacques Derrida
    DOI
    10.26530/OAPEN_390769
    OCN
    290552422; 874264839
    Publisher
    Berg Publishers
    Publication date and place
    Oxford, 2006
    Grantor
    • OAPEN-UK
    Series
    Culture Machine,
    Classification
    Popular culture
    Social theory
    Pages
    208
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    Relevant Wikipedia pages: Conspiracy theory - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_theory; Cultural studies - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_studies; Gossip - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gossip; Jacques Derrida - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Derrida
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    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
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    • This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 683680, 810640, 871069 and 964352.

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