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A Uses and Gratifications Perspective of the Relationships Among Consumption of Government-Conspiracy-Theory-Oriented Media Fare
A Uses and Gratifications Perspective of the Relationships among Consumption of Government-Conspiracy-Theory-Oriented Media Fare, Trust in Government, and Political Participation A dissertation submitted to the College of Communication and Information of Kent State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Communication Studies by Rekha Sharma August, 2017 Dissertation written by Rekha Sharma B.S., Kent State University, 2002 M.A., Kent State University, 2004 M.S., Kent State University, 2004 Ph.D., Kent State University, 2017 Approved by ________________________________ Paul M. Haridakis, Ph.D., Chair, Doctoral Dissertation Committee ________________________________ Danielle S. Coombs, Ph.D., Member, Doctoral Dissertation Committee ________________________________ Janet R. Meyer, Ph.D., Member, Doctoral Dissertation Committee ________________________________ James D. Ponder, Ph.D., Member, Doctoral Dissertation Committee Accepted by _________________________________ Elizabeth Graham, Ph.D., Director, School of Communication Studies _________________________________ Amy Reynolds, Ph.D., Dean, College of Communication and Information ii Table of Contents Page TABLE OF CONTENTS ............................................................................................................... iii LIST OF FIGURES ........................................................................................................................v LIST OF TABLES ....................................................................................................................... -
November 22 1963 the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy A
November 22 1963 The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy A Lincoln City Libraries Booklist compiled on the 50th Anniversary of the Historic Events At 12:30 p.m. on November 22, 1963, while traveling in an open-air motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States of America, was assassinated by gunfire from the Texas School Book Depository, alongside the presidential motorcade route. Arrested later that day was Lee Harvey Oswald, a former U.S. Marine who had defected to the Soviet Union and then returned to the U.S. in 1962. Arraigned for the murder of Kennedy and Dallas police office J.D. Tippit, Oswald himself was killed by Dallas night club owner Jack Ruby while he was being transferred between jails. An official governmental investigation into the assassination – the President’s Commission on the Assassination of John F. Kennedy, chaired by Earl Warren (Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States) – concluded in an 889-page report, released in September 1964, that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in shooting Kennedy, as did Ruby in later killing Oswald. Conspiracy theories have abounded in the decades following the Warren Commission’s findings, and numerous other investigations of the assassination have resulted in a variety of other “official” opinions. The United States House Select Committee on Assassinations, formed in 1976, released a report in 1979 that concluded that although Oswald was, indeed the “lone shooter”, there may very well have been a conspiracy behind his actions to assassinate Kennedy. -
They Call Me Crazy: Factors to Conspiratorial Participation Rachel Sparkman [email protected]
Marshall University Marshall Digital Scholar Theses, Dissertations and Capstones 1-1-2012 They Call Me Crazy: Factors to Conspiratorial Participation Rachel Sparkman [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: http://mds.marshall.edu/etd Part of the Politics and Social Change Commons, Regional Sociology Commons, Social Control, Law, Crime, and Deviance Commons, and the Theory, Knowledge and Science Commons Recommended Citation Sparkman, Rachel, "They alC l Me Crazy: Factors to Conspiratorial Participation" (2012). Theses, Dissertations and Capstones. Paper 263. This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by Marshall Digital Scholar. It has been accepted for inclusion in Theses, Dissertations and Capstones by an authorized administrator of Marshall Digital Scholar. For more information, please contact [email protected]. THEY CALL ME CRAZY: FACTORS TO CONSPIRATORIAL PARTICIPATION A thesis submitted to the Graduate College of Marshall University In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Sociology by Rachel Sparkman Approved by Donna Sullivan, Ph.D., Committee Chairperson Markus Hadler, Ph.D. Daniel Holbrook, Ph.D. Marshall University May 2012 ABSTRACT THEY CALL ME CRAZY: FACTORS TO CONSPIRATORIAL PARTICIPATION by Rachel Sparkman This study investigates the public perceptions of conspiracy theories and the level and types of participation of those who believe such theories. It addresses the research questions of: (1) Under what conditions would a person speak openly about conspiracy, and under what conditions would they remain silent? (2) What are the social factors that draw a person into joining with others who believe a particular conspiracy has occurred? And (3) is there any relationship between a person's education and profession that would increase or hinder a conspiracist's visible participation of his or her beliefs? A total of thirty interviews were conducted, ten each in New Orleans, Louisiana, at the 9/11 site in New York City, and West Virginia. -
Participatory Propaganda Model 1
A PARTICIPATORY PROPAGANDA MODEL 1 Participatory Propaganda: The Engagement of Audiences in the Spread of Persuasive Communications Alicia Wanless Michael Berk Director of Strategic Communications, Visiting Research Fellow, SecDev Foundation Centre for Cyber Security and International [email protected] Relations Studies, University of Florence [email protected] Paper presented at the "Social Media & Social Order, Culture Conflict 2.0" conference organized by Cultural Conflict 2.0 and sponsored by the Research Council of Norway on 1 December 2017, Oslo. To be published as part of the conference proceedings in 2018. A PARTICIPATORY PROPAGANDA MODEL 2 Abstract Existing research on aspects of propaganda in a digital age tend to focus on isolated techniques or phenomena, such as fake news, trolls, memes, or botnets. Providing invaluable insight on the evolving human-technology interaction in creating new formats of persuasive messaging, these studies lend to an enriched understanding of modern propaganda methods. At the same time, the true effects and magnitude of successful influencing of large audiences in the digital age can only be understood if target audiences are perceived not only as ‘objects’ of influence, but as ‘subjects’ of persuasive communications as well. Drawing from vast available research, as well as original social network and content analyses conducted during the 2016 U.S. presidential elections, this paper presents a new, qualitatively enhanced, model of modern propaganda – “participatory propaganda” - and discusses its effects on modern democratic societies. Keywords: propaganda, Facebook, social network analysis, content analysis, politics A PARTICIPATORY PROPAGANDA MODEL 3 Participatory Propaganda: The Engagement of Audiences in the Spread of Persuasive Communications Rapidly evolving information communications technologies (ICTs) have drastically altered the ways individuals engage in the public information domain, including news ways of becoming subjected to external influencing. -
The Ethos of Conspiracy Argument : "Character" As Persuader in Conspiracy Rhetoric
University of Louisville ThinkIR: The University of Louisville's Institutional Repository Electronic Theses and Dissertations 5-2014 The ethos of conspiracy argument : "character" as persuader in conspiracy rhetoric. Michael James Sobiech University of Louisville Follow this and additional works at: https://ir.library.louisville.edu/etd Part of the English Language and Literature Commons Recommended Citation Sobiech, Michael James, "The ethos of conspiracy argument : "character" as persuader in conspiracy rhetoric." (2014). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 1359. https://doi.org/10.18297/etd/1359 This Doctoral Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by ThinkIR: The University of Louisville's Institutional Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Electronic Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of ThinkIR: The University of Louisville's Institutional Repository. This title appears here courtesy of the author, who has retained all other copyrights. For more information, please contact [email protected]. THE ETHOS OF CONSPIRACY ARGUMENT: “CHARACTER” AS PERSUADER IN CONSPIRACY RHETORIC By Michael James Sobiech B.S., Indiana University, 1988 M.A., Western Kentucky University, 2008 A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences of the University of Louisville in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Department of English University of Louisville Louisville, Kentucky May 2014 Copyright 2014 by Michael James Sobiech All -
Filosofická Fakulta Masarykovy Univerzity
UNIVERZITA PALACKÉHO V OLOMOUCI Pedagogická fakulta Katedra anglického jazyka COMPARISON OF 9/11 CONSPIRACY THEORIES WITH THE U.S. POLITICAL REACTION TO THESE EVENTS Bakalářská práce Vedoucí práce: Mgr. Jiří Flajšar, Ph.D. Vypracovala: Božena Trombly Olomouc 2021 I declare that I have worked on this thesis independently, using only the primary and secondary sources listed in the bibliography. Božena Trombly …………………………………………….. Author’s signature Acknowledgements: I would like to thank Mgr. Jiří Flajšar, Ph.D. for his supervision on my thesis. Also, I want to express my gratitude to other professors’ efforts to encourage me to work hard in order to improve my knowledge in English language. Further my thanks belong to my friend Hana Čihánková for her time she spent reading my work and for her support. Table of Contents INTRODUCTION ...................................................................................................... 1 1 THE 9/11 ATTACKS AND THEIR PLACE IN US HISTORY ................ 2 1.1 THE RISE OF A TERRORIST THREAT PRIOR TO THE 9/11 .......................................................... 3 1.2 KNOWN FACTS ABOUT THE 9/11 ATTACKS ............................................................................ 4 1.3 AMERICA RESPONDS TO THE 9/11 ATTACKS .......................................................................... 6 2 CONSPIRACY .............................................................................................. 10 2.1 WHAT IS CONSPIRACY THEORY? ........................................................................................ -
Exit Polls Vs. Vote Count 2006
CODE RED: Computerized Elections and The War on American Democracy Election 2018 Edition Jonathan D. Simon www.CODERED2018.com Praise for CODE RED: Jonathan Simon’s CODE RED is unique, timely, easy-to-understand, and vastly important. The book uses an innovative Q&A format to enable readers to comprehend why computerized elections fraud represents an unprecedented challenge to democracy. The author has been a pioneering expert in this research, which has been widely ignored by traditional watchdog institutions and the political media. His book provides a convenient news-peg for them to start doing their jobs instead of continuing the go-along, get-along game. Andrew Kreig, Justice Integrity Project director and author of Presidential Puppetry: Obama, Romney and Their Masters CODE RED by Jonathan Simon, co-founder of Election Defense Alliance, is not a fun read. Nor was it fun to write, Simon admits. But that doesn’t make it any less important. Simon sees our nation heading over a cliff, democratically speaking; hence, his sense of urgency. He is desperate for us to get active and do something, but without the facts we are powerless. And without familiarity with computerized election history, there is no context in which to comprehend what has happened in recent electoral contests. As Simon says, in his Foreword, “The Big Picture of American politics has become an ugly one and one that will only get uglier with time and inaction. So let’s take an unblinking look at what the hell is happening to America and what we still just might be able to do about it.” He dives in with a question-and- answer section that puts the major facts out there for people to examine and evaluate for themselves.