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Workshop 450: Beyond Conspiracy: Methods and methodologies for researching counter-establishment research, narratives and researchers
Time:
Wednesday, 29/Mar/2023:
9:00am - 10:30am

 Location: Room 14

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Beyond Conspiracy: Methods and methodologies for researching counter-establishment research, narratives and researchers

s. wood1, y. eadon2

1UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry, United States of America; 2UNC Center for Information, Technology & Public Life

This workshop brings together researchers working on disinformation, conspiracy theories and counter-establishment research to share methods, methodologies and theoretical frameworks. Despite the apparent “newness” of these issues, particularly in the wake of the 2016 election and the resurgence of mass white nationalism, many of the foundational concerns and questions involved in this research have deep intellectual lineages in the library and information science (LIS) field. Given this year’s theme which explicitly calls attention to “normality,” we intend to interrogate the normative assumptions embedded in current approaches to these areas of research and hope to highlight the complexity, relationality and historicity of conspiracism. The goal of this workshop is to foster intellectual community, share resources and address the state of research around counter-establishment research and conspiracy.