The Perfect Storm: A Subcultural Analysis of the QAnon Movement

Conner, Christopher T.; MacMurray, Nicholas

doi:10.1177/08969205211055863

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“…These activities spur operations to confront and expose the QAnon conspirators on social media (e.g. @QAnonAnonymous [22]), amongst which some of our hacktivists have a direct role in "dismantling the Qanon infrastructure" [P2].…”

Section: Leaking Doxing and Deplatformingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Folk Models of Misinformation on Social Media

Sharevski¹,

Devine²,

Pieroni³

et al. 2023

Proceedings 2023 Network and Distributed System Security Symposium

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In this study, we interviewed 22 prominent hacktivists to learn their take on the increased proliferation of misinformation on social media. We found that none of them welcomes the nefarious appropriation of trolling and memes for the purpose of political (counter)argumentation and dissemination of propaganda. True to the original hacker ethos, misinformation is seen as a threat to the democratic vision of the Internet, and as such, it must be confronted on the face with tried hacktivists' methods like deplatforming the "misinformers" and doxing or leaking data about their funding and recruitment. The majority of the hacktivists also recommended interventions for raising misinformation literacy in addition to targeted hacking campaigns. We discuss the implications of these findings relative to the emergent recasting of hacktivism in defense of a constructive and factual social media discourse.

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Section: Leaking Doxing and Deplatformingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Folk Models of Misinformation on Social Media

Sharevski¹,

Devine²,

Pieroni³

et al. 2023

Proceedings 2023 Network and Distributed System Security Symposium

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“…Conner and MacMurray conducted a content analysis of 300 hours of QAnon video and audio, participated in the GreatAwakening messageboard and QAnon-related Telegram channels, and attended livestreamed events conducted by Conner and MacMurray (2021). They found that influencers played a vital role in spreading the conspiracy theory and the associated movement.…”

Section: Situating Qanon Among Conspiracy Theoriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Almost half (48%) of the QAnon supporters earned $50,000 or less. Conner and MacMurray (2021) argue that the QAnon is most popular with those who have been hardest hit by the changes in labor structures that were outcomes of neoliberal restructuring. Their secondary analysis of the IPSOS/NPR poll found that when the geographic region was controlled for, QAnon believers largely came from suburban and rural communities (Conner and MacMurray 2021).…”

Section: Precarity From Belowmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Conner and MacMurray (2021) argue that the QAnon is most popular with those who have been hardest hit by the changes in labor structures that were outcomes of neoliberal restructuring. Their secondary analysis of the IPSOS/NPR poll found that when the geographic region was controlled for, QAnon believers largely came from suburban and rural communities (Conner and MacMurray 2021). This has important implications for the spatial concentration of QAnon communities and for the social conditions that shape QAnon, as rural communities have been disproportionately .…”

Section: Precarity From Belowmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Whiteness may have given access to relative privilege, but this has been at least partially rescinded. Conner and MacMurray (2021) argue that the QAnon is most popular with those who have been hardest hit by the recent restructuring that has taken place in labor markets. These individuals have slipped into the precariat, a class-in-the-making" (Standing 2011) which has a tenuous relationship with labor markets, low incomes, and an incoherent class identity (Standing 2018).…”

Section: Precarity From Belowmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Caputo-Levine

Harris

2022

Int. J. Criminol. Sociol.

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This essay builds upon earlier studies of the QAnon superconspiracy theory by applying cultural criminology as a framework to investigate the significance of QAnon and the events that facilitated the rise of the superconspiracy and the associated political movement. QAnon has had multiple impacts that should be of interest to criminologists. In the United States, QAnon was involved with the 2020 election, as adherents believed messages posted by "Q" referred to President Trump as a messiah and Trump tacitly acknowledged the group. In addition, QAnon has international influence, most recently in the "trucker" convoy in Canada and anti-vaccine protests in New Zealand and Germany. This essay utilizes cultural criminology to introduce the framework of relative deprivation theory and emphasize the importance of the gaze from above and below in structuring relative deprivation. In addition, we discuss the role of cultural understandings of victimization in shaping ideology and physical frameworks used by QAnon.

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2024

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The twenty-first century has seen the proliferation of new sexual identity subcultures rooted in creative role-play dynamics, expanding our cultural and scientific understanding of diversity in sexuality and intimacy. In an international sample of 568 people who identified with the kink subculture of pup play, we analyzed responses to open-ended questions about the discovery of pup play and communities, definitions of pup play, and motivations for engagement. Four themes were identified: (1) social technologies as central to discovery of the subculture; (2) constructionist accounts of pup identity development emerging from relationships and exposure to other kink communities; (3) individual psychological benefits of subculture participation, including stress relief, relaxation, and pleasure; and (4) social psychological benefits in identity and community building. We situate these findings in relation to the expansion of diversity in sexual identity and intimacy in the twenty-first century, facilitated by the heightened visibility and opportunities for social and intimate creativity which have accompanied the growth of social media and exposure to new sexual stories.

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The Perfect Storm: A Subcultural Analysis of the QAnon Movement

Cited by 17 publications

References 45 publications

Folk Models of Misinformation on Social Media

Folk Models of Misinformation on Social Media

Experiencing Relative Deprivation as True Crime: Applying Cultural Criminology to the Qanon Superconspiracy Theory

“Be Dog Have Fun”: Narratives of Discovery, Meaning, and Motivation among Members of the Pup Subculture

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