"Accessing to a "Truer Truth

Conspiracy and Figurative Reasoning From Covid-19 to the Russia-Ukraine War

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ID5836747
AuthorsBianca Terracciano (0000-0002-9640-6456, Sapienza University of Rome, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume11
Issue2
Pages64-75
Publication date2023-04-28
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMedia and Communication (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2183-2439 • E-ISSN: 2183-2439
PublisherCogitatio (PUBLISHER • PT)
DOI10.17645/mac.v11i2.6396
OpenAlexW4367316499
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited16

This research hypothesizes that all conspiracy theories have dominating isotopies and images-symbols regardless of ideology or context. As a result, I hypothesized that the common denominator might be discovered in figurative reasoning, which means using the same representations to explain current events, in order to detect an ideal center of the semantic universe of conspiracy where the diverse conspiracist fringes converge. Social media invariant topicalizations of the Covid-19 epidemic and the Russia-Ukraine war are the ideal field to validate this hypothesis. The corpus on which the study was conducted consists of thousands of online items published between February 15, 2020, and October 15, 2022. Within the corpus were chosen posts by QAnon supporters designated as disinformation "superspreaders

Disinformation · Misinformation and Its Impacts · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment

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