Constructing alternative facts: Populist expertise and the QAnon conspiracy
Constructing alternative facts: Populist expertise and the QAnon conspiracy
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构建替代事实：民粹主义专业知识和 QAnon 阴谋
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2022
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W. Partin
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Alice E. Marwick;W. Partin
传播学研究越来越关注认识论碎片化和两极分化之间的关系。即便如此，对于为什么游击队会接受边缘信仰的解释仍然有限。这篇文章探讨了右翼阴谋QAnon，它假定匿名海报“Q”是特朗普政府内部人士，鼓励追随者（“贝克”）研究时事背后隐藏的真相。根据8chan图像板上的定性实地调查，我们将烘焙定位为一种集体的知识创造活动，建立在社交媒体的启示之上，旨在构建特定的事实和理论，随着时间的推移保持QAnon的凝聚力。面包师展示了民粹主义的专业知识，拒绝传统媒体对当前事件的报道，支持通过他们的系统研究计划构建的“替代事实”。我们强调参与式文化的政治矛盾性，并认为烘焙质疑批判性思维或媒体素养作为“后真相”困境的解决方案，如超党派媒体和虚假信息。
Communication research is increasingly concerned with the relationship between epistemological fragmentation and polarization. Even so, explanations for why partisans take up fringe beliefs are limited. This article examines the right-wing conspiracy QAnon, which posits that the anonymous poster “Q” is a Trump administration insider who encourages followers (“Bakers”) to research hidden truths behind current events. Drawing on qualitative fieldwork on the 8chan imageboard, we position baking as a collective, knowledge-making activity built on the affordances of social media designed to construct specific facts and theories that maintain QAnon’s cohesion over time. Bakers demonstrate populist expertise, the rejection of legacy media accounts of current events in favor of the “alternative facts” constructed through their systematic research programs. We emphasize the politically ambivalent nature of participatory culture and argue that baking casts doubt on critical thinking or media literacy as solutions to “post-truth” dilemmas like hyperpartisan media and disinformation.