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'The Great Reset is not a conspiracy theory': Critique, connection and convergence across post-Covid social networks

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Venue: Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square

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The seminar presents research into conspiracy theories across social networks, analyzing and comparing co-hashtag networks over time on TikTok, Twitter and Instagram as a more inductive method for studying dynamics of critique, connection and convergence in post-Covid conspiracy narratives. As a case study, the research zooms in on "The Great Reset", a narrative which addresses fears of technological control while also problematizing the analytic category of conspiracy theory. The seminar aims to be a skill sharing session for how to study 'communities of suspicion' online with quali-quant methods, as well as chance to engage in some collaborative theorization as to what the heck is going on in these data!

Leading the seminar will be Dr Marc Tuters, a senior lecturer at the University of Amsterdam's Media Studies department, whose current research examines radical subcultures at the bottom of the Web, together with colleagues at the OILab as well as the Digital Methods Initiative.

Dr Tuters' presentation will be followed by a response from Dr Robert Topinka, a senior lecturer in Birkbeck's Department of Film, Media and Cultural Studies, whose expertise spans questions of technology, the city, transnationalism, postcolonialism, and race.

Sponsored by the Vasari Research Centre for Art and Technology.

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Speakers
  • Dr Marc Tuters -

    Marc Tuters is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Amsterdam's Media Studies department where his current research examines radical subcultures at the bottom of the Web together with colleagues at the OILab as well as the Digital Methods Initiative.

  • Dr Robert Topinka -

    Robert Topinka is a Senior Lecturer in Birkbeck's Department of Film, Media and Cultural Studies, where he studies technology, the city, transnationalism, postcolonialism, and race.