The Ordinary Affects of Conspiracy Thinking

阴谋思维的一般影响

• 批准号: 2757290
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Durham University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2757290
• 关键词: Ordinary; Affects; Conspiracy; Thinking

Conspiratorial thinking is one of the most troublesome and high-profile phenomena of our time. Theories circulating in this realm have a remarkable hold on their supporters; sometimes leading to life-endangering decisions, such asrefusing vaccination. In intimate relationships this phenomenon is a daily topic of concern, as people witness intimate others slip into paranoid distorted realities, while suspicions of bad thinking now permeate daily evaluations of others. However, scholarly work on this phenomenon has mainly concentrated on its large-scale expression, while seeking to draw the outline of an essence of conspiracy theories and their macro explanations (a 'posttruth' age, the impact of social media etc). This project directly addresses the neglected everyday aspects of conspiratorial thinking by seeking to understand how conspiracies are produced, encountered, performed and felt as part of everyday life. By working with people with different relations with conspiracy thinking supplemented with online observation, this project will generate new knowledge about the ways attachments to conspiracy theories emerge from, proliferate through, and make a difference to daily life. The conceptual and methodological frameworks will allow this research to draw out the affective and emotional facet of conspiratorial thinking. Centring on alternative discourses on vaccines in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, this research will primarily rely on interviews. Additional creative method will allow the project to accentuate affective intensities that arise alongside experiences of conspiratorial thinking. Theresult will be new knowledge about how conspiracy thinking happens and becomes part of people's everyday life.

阴谋思维是我们这个时代最麻烦和最引人注目的现象之一。在这个领域流传的理论对他们的支持者有着非凡的影响力;有时会导致危及生命的决定，比如拒绝接种疫苗。在亲密关系中，这种现象是一个日常关注的话题，因为人们目睹亲密的其他人陷入偏执扭曲的现实，而对坏思想的怀疑现在渗透到对他人的日常评价中。然而，关于这一现象的学术工作主要集中在其大规模的表达上，同时试图勾勒出阴谋论的本质及其宏观解释（“后真相”时代，社交媒体的影响等）。这个项目直接解决了阴谋思维被忽视的日常方面，试图了解阴谋是如何产生的，遇到的，执行和感受到日常生活的一部分。通过与具有不同关系的人合作，以阴谋思维为补充，并辅以在线观察，该项目将产生关于阴谋论附件如何出现，扩散并改变日常生活的新知识。概念和方法框架将使这项研究得出的情感和情感方面的阴谋思维。这项研究将主要依靠访谈，以COVID-19大流行后关于疫苗的替代话语为中心。额外的创造性方法将使项目能够强调伴随着阴谋思维体验而产生的情感强度。其结果将是关于阴谋思维如何发生并成为人们日常生活的一部分的新知识。