{"id":669289,"date":"2010-02-17T11:15:52","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T16:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=22506"},"modified":"2010-02-17T11:15:52","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T16:15:52","slug":"blather-rinse-repeat-an-ethnography-of-conspiracy-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/669289","title":{"rendered":"Blather, Rinse, Repeat: An Ethnography of Conspiracy Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a lecture from my old buddy Damien at Blather.net.  It is a good addition to the stories\/discussions that are currently going around about the sub-culture of conspiracy theories.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/blather.net\/blather\/2009\/11\/blather_rinse_repeat_an_ethnography_of_conspiracy_911_world_trade_centre.html\">Blather<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is the video of the talk I did at the Dublin Paracon 2009 on the  subject of 9\/11 and conspiracy theories. This talk resulted from <a href=\"http:\/\/digitalculture-ed.net\/\">a course called Digital Cultures<\/a>,  part of the MsC. in e-learning at the University of Edinburgh, where we  were encouraged to carry out a &#8216;virtual ethnography&#8217; on a community of  our choice. I chose, for reasons passing understanding, the 9\/11  conspiracy theorists, choosing some of the recent 9\/11 films as a field  site.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>[Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/blather.net\/blather\/2009\/11\/blather_rinse_repeat_an_ethnography_of_conspiracy_911_world_trade_centre.html\">Blather<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a lecture from my old buddy Damien at Blather.net. It is a good addition to the stories\/discussions that are currently going around about the sub-culture of conspiracy theories. From Blather: This is the video of the talk I did at the Dublin Paracon 2009 on the subject of 9\/11 and conspiracy theories. This talk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1608,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-669289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2O6Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1608"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}