Publicness and commoning: Pandemic intersections and collective visions at times of crisis

Georgiou, Myria; Titley, Gavan

doi:10.1177/13678779211060363

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“…Here, we make a case for considering beliefs to be conspiracy theories only when the alleged conspiracy is of public interest. This entails that publicness (Arendt 1998, Georgiou & Titley 2022) is a crucial defining dimension. Conspiracy theories are represented as belonging to the public.…”

Section: Redefining Conspiracy Theoriesmentioning

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What Are Conspiracy Theories? A Definitional Approach to Their Correlates, Consequences, and Communication

Douglas

Sutton

2023

Annu. Rev. Psychol.

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Conspiracy theories are abundant in social and political discourse, with serious consequences for individuals, groups, and societies. However, psychological scientists have started paying close attention to them only in the past 20 years. We review the spectacular progress that has since been made and some of the limitations of research so far, and we consider the prospects for further progress. To this end, we take a step back to analyze the defining features that make conspiracy theories different in kind from other beliefs and different in degree from each other. We consider how these features determine the adoption, consequences, and transmission of belief in conspiracy theories, even though their role as causal or moderating variables has seldom been examined. We therefore advocate for a research agenda in the study of conspiracy theories that starts—as is routine in fields such as virology and toxicology—with a robust descriptive analysis of the ontology of the entity at its center. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Psychology, Volume 74 is January 2023. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

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Section: Redefining Conspiracy Theoriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

What Are Conspiracy Theories? A Definitional Approach to Their Correlates, Consequences, and Communication

Douglas

Sutton

2023

Annu. Rev. Psychol.

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Exploring publicness as social practice: An analysis on social support within an emerging economy

Tekin Bilbil,

Fırtın,

Zihnioğlu

et al. 2023

Financ Acc Manag

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By utilizing the concepts of field, habitus, and capital inherited from Bourdieu, this study explores publicness as a social practice. In doing this, the paper problematizes publicness concerning accountability and public value and empirically explores the organization of social support delivery in Istanbul. We posit our research question: In what manners does publicness open up a space for collaboration and convergence in relation to accountability? The data gathering and analysis follow a qualitative methodology. We found different forms of publicness under three different conditionalities: (1) publicness as political authority based on hierarchization and centralization; (2) publicness as competing positions produced by diverse actors and their diverse positions taken beyond hierarchical relations; (3) publicness as social inclusion and diversity that is all‐embracing by employing more inclusive practices. Publicness relationally unfolds public value with and among formal rules, voluntary practices, and networks. By delving into constitutive elements of practice—symbolic capital and habitus—engaging in the field struggles of redefining and owning publicness, the paper goes beyond the conventional dichotomy of normative versus empirical conceptualizations of publicness and instead differentiates among distinct forms of publicness in different conditionalities and contributes to the literature by bridging publicness and accountability habitus.

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Making public or quiet listening? Media logics and public inquiries into the abuse of children

McCallum,

Dreher,

Deas

et al. 2024

Media International Australia

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This article examines the tensions between ‘publicness’ and ‘privacy’ in national commissions of inquiry. Through the insights of those who worked deep inside Australia's landmark Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (RCIRCSA, 2013–2017), and the evidence provided in its final report, we explore the organisational and media logics of the Commission's highly publicised public hearings, and the ‘quiet’ institutional listening practices of its private sessions and engagement with marginalised communities. Royal Commissions are an important mechanism for raising awareness of past crimes on the public agenda. Our research finds that while the revelatory outcomes of the RCIRCSA have been well documented, its private sessions, engagement and research are less well understood. We argue ‘publicness’ is a relatively unchallenged good that is enacted through news media and the royal commission process, but media logics can limit their capacity to address the ongoing causes and impacts of child sexual abuse against the most impacted children. Participants reflected on the media logics that drove strategic decisions to ‘make public’ some cases and institutions, while others remained in the Commission's private realm. The article concludes that the confidential sharing of evidence has been undervalued in inquiry media studies that often centre the journalists’ role in uncovering and publicly revealing previously unheard stories. Drawing on international comparisons we find that while quiet listening risks negating the opportunity to amplify experience, it may also counter the potential silencing effects of unwanted public media scrutiny and protect potential witnesses from further harm.

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Publicness and commoning: Pandemic intersections and collective visions at times of crisis

Cited by 4 publications

References 33 publications

What Are Conspiracy Theories? A Definitional Approach to Their Correlates, Consequences, and Communication

What Are Conspiracy Theories? A Definitional Approach to Their Correlates, Consequences, and Communication

Exploring publicness as social practice: An analysis on social support within an emerging economy

Making public or quiet listening? Media logics and public inquiries into the abuse of children

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