LARPing &amp; Liberal Tears. Irony, Belief and Idiocy in the Deep Vernacular Web

Tuters, Marc

doi:10.1515/9783839446706-003

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“…Online conspiracism is, in many ways, a form of trolling, as explicitly professed by many of its proponents, among which the users of 4chan/pol, who proudly refer to themselves as ‘shitposters’ (Phillips, 2015). Compared to traditional conspiracists, online shitposters are less interested in persuading their audience than in provoking them, in a sort of communicational ‘live action role-playing’ (Tuters, 2019). The provocative and conflict-ridden nature of conspiratorial folklore is so marked that computer scientists working with sentiment analysis have suggested that these qualities could be effectively used to identify junk news, items of which ‘tend to be shorter in length, convey less clout (expertise or confidence), appear more negative in tone (greater anxiety, sadness, or hostility), and denote lesser analytical thinking (more informal, personal, here-and-now, and narrative thinking)’ (Singh et al, 2017).…”

Section: Findings: Two Oral-like Features Of Online Conspiracismmentioning

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Online Conspiracy Theories, Digital Platforms and Secondary Orality: Toward a Sociology of Online Monsters

Venturini

2022

Theory, Culture & Society

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Reviving the somewhat forgotten notion of ‘secondary orality’, this paper conceptualizes online conspiracism as a creative, if monstrous, response to the attention economy of social media. Combining classic literature on oral cultures and current research on online subcultures, this paper takes conspiratorial folklore seriously and develops a program of research into its features and into its surprising adaptation to the attention regime of digital media.

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Section: Findings: Two Oral-like Features Of Online Conspiracismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Online Conspiracy Theories, Digital Platforms and Secondary Orality: Toward a Sociology of Online Monsters

Venturini

2022

Theory, Culture & Society

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“…It is important to examine precisely those aspects of participatory fan communities that we find most disturbing, otherwise how can we address them? QANON AS A FAN CULTURE Q has been described dismissively as a LARP by critics (Tuters 2018), but at the heart of this minimization is a key truth: just as live action role players participate in their own fantasy fan cultures, so too is QAnon a participatory culture in which political reality is shared and community is built via the technology and even sometimes game-like mechanics. Compared to other online communities that promote conspiracies as well as inappropriate and even extremist behaviour, QAnon stands apart in at least two ways: unlike troll communities, QAnon adherents are not doing it "for the lulz" (Phillips 2015), but rather out of a deep belief in the tenets of Q (Miler, 2021).…”

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Where We Go One, We Go All: QAnon, Networked Individualism, and the Dark Side of Participatory (Fan) Culture

Hodson

Gosse

2022

Baltic Screen Media Review

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Participation in online spaces has afforded new fan cultures (Baym, Burnett 2009; Jenkins 2018) and enabled new communities of networked individuals (Rainie, Wellman 2012; Burgess, Jones 2020). Online participation also generates participatory cultures, which allow audiences unprecedented opportunity to connect with each other and with the media they share. However, it has also generated some decidedly anti-social and anti-democratic movements, such as QAnon (Amarasingam, Argentino 2020). In this commentary, we argue that QAnon can be thought of as a participatory fan culture gone awry. Using QAnon’s entry into mainstream culture in 2020 as a case study, we explore the darker implications of online participatory culture, including misinformation, conspiratorial- thinking, and an undermining of shared realities. Lastly, we propose that these issues are made more explicit and difficult to attend to in a media sphere characterized by dominant neo-liberal corporate control of participatory media, and digital dualism.

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“…tive underpinnings. A range of studies additionally focused on how irony operates in far-right Internet subcultures as a tool to normalize extremist sentiments in the form of parodies or jokes while maintaining a degree of deniability (e.g., Tuters, 2018;Nilsson, 2021). Greene (2019)…”

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Socio-cultural and individual factors in verbal irony use and understanding: What we know, what we don’t know, what we want to know

Banasik-Jemielniak

Kałowski

2022

rev commun res

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AA significant part of everyday verbal communication consists of nonliteral language, including irony (Gibbs 2000). Efficient irony use can serve a wide range of pragmatic goals, while deficits in irony comprehension can have negative social consequences. Whereas a large body of psycholinguistic research has been produced on irony use and understanding by adults, little attention has been paid to the socio-cultural characteristics of this phenomenon so far. Some individual factors that have been identified as correlates of irony use include personality of the speaker, gender, age, or speaking a second language. In this article, we argue that it is necessary to bring the aspects of socio-cultural variables and individual characteristics together in the further study of irony across national cultures. To this end, we present a narrative review of theoretical and quantitative empirical literature from the field of psycholinguistics on both national cultural and individual/psychological factors impacting the use and understanding of verbal irony in communication. Based on the review, we suggest a theoretical model that could guide future quantitative studies on irony use such that both contextual factors (including national cultural dimensions) and individual differences between the speakers are clearly defined and related to one another in terms of their influence.

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LARPing & Liberal Tears. Irony, Belief and Idiocy in the Deep Vernacular Web

Cited by 24 publications

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Online Conspiracy Theories, Digital Platforms and Secondary Orality: Toward a Sociology of Online Monsters

Online Conspiracy Theories, Digital Platforms and Secondary Orality: Toward a Sociology of Online Monsters

Where We Go One, We Go All: QAnon, Networked Individualism, and the Dark Side of Participatory (Fan) Culture

Socio-cultural and individual factors in verbal irony use and understanding: What we know, what we don’t know, what we want to know

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