[Air-L] Conspiracy Groups

[Nishant Shah]

Hi CJ,
There are two books that I have to suggest. The first one that does not
particularly talk about conspiracy theory groups but does have an
interesting take about groups using viral and mobile technologies
interestingly, is Howard Rheingold's Smart Mobs.

The second, which helped me for a recent paper that I was writing, was Mike
Davis' 'Ecology of Fear' which was quite a beautiful framework to look at
the different perspectives and conspiracy theories and how they bolster the
circuits of terror and fear.

Hope they might be of some help.

warmly
Nishant

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 7:24 AM, CJ Pascoe
<c.j.pascoe at coloradocollege.edu>wrote:

> I'm hoping that the combined wisdom of this list can point me in the
> correct direction.  One of my undergraduate students is writing her senior
> thesis on American 9/11 conspiracy theory groups.  I can help her with a
> general sociological framing of these groups, but I'm not sure where to
> direct her in terms of literature on new media and conspiracy groups (apart
> from a good This American Life episode from National Public Radio).  Do any
> of you have suggestions for specific articles/books on conspiracy theory
> groups and their use of new media?
>
> Thanks,
> CJ
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Nishant Shah
Doctoral Candidate, CSCS, Bangalore.
Director (Research), Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore
Asia Awards Fellow, 2008-09
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