The assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963 has been one of the great controversies of the last four decades. A variety of conspiracy theories have been offered to explain the tragedy, from multiple assassins in Dealey Plaza (the site of the killing in Da…
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This dissertation explores evidence and provides insight to secrecy-related information actions that can and are sometimes used as a method to circumvent established government policy and law. These information actions may also be used to cover up such circumventions after the f…
This thesis draws on Mikhail Bakhtin's description of the carnival in order to frame conspiracy theory as an epistemological category. It positions conspiracy theories as a carnivalesque form of discourse, and demonstrates how to understand them as ideological optics on the dial…
This dissertation examines and explicates the convergences of conspiracy theory, Islam, terrorism, and hip hop culture in rap group Killarmy’s album Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars to gain a deeper understanding of knowledge production post 9/11 through a process Liesbet Van Zoone…
The following critical appraisal presents eight interlinked works that apply and extend Michael Barkun’s (2003) concept of ‘improvisational millennialism’. This body of work demonstrates that, as Barkun suggests, the concept is widely applicable to the online communities in whic…
There is a growing perception among African Americans that Black public officials arebeing singled out for harassment. Black public servants have faced overwhelming challenges with harassment, surveillance and corruption over the years, as evidenced by the disproportionate rate …