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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION
卷 27, 期 1, 页码 22-34出版社
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/0267323111433566
关键词
conspiracy culture; distrust; modernization; new media; paranoia
Popular conspiracy theories, like those about JFK, the attacks of 9/11, the death of Princess Diana or the swine flu vaccination, are generally depicted in the social sciences as pathological, irrational and, essentially, anti-modern. In this contribution it is instead argued that conspiracy culture is a radical and generalized manifestation of distrust that is embedded in the cultural logic of modernity and, ultimately, produced by processes of modernization. In particular, epistemological doubts about the validity of scientific knowledge claims, ontological insecurity about rationalized social systems like the state, multinationals and the media; and a relentless 'will to believe' in a disenchanted world - already acknowledged by Adorno, Durkheim, Marx and Weber - nowadays motivate a massive turn to conspiracy culture in the West.
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