Cognitive authority, expertise, and the conspiracist mindset: using ideas from Patrick Wilson and Anthony Giddens to analyze QAnon

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2023
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Information Dis/Order in Contemporary Times
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Author (aut): Blechinger, Joel
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This presentation is from Information Dis/Order in Contemporary Times, a panel event put on by Mount Royal University Library on February 8 2023, that also featured presentations by Dr. Brooks DeCillia and Dr. Naomi Grant. The presentation uses ideas from librarian Patrick Wilson and sociologist Anthony Giddens to explore conspiracist thinking, particularly as evinced in the QAnon phenomenon.
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Information Dis/Order in Contemporary Times
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This work is completed in its entirety by Joel Blechinger. This work is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC-BY-NC 4.0) license.
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QAnon
cognitive authority
Patrick Wilson
Anthony Giddens
conspiracy theories
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QAnon conspiracy theory
Conspiracy theories
Information resources
Information integrity
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Blechinger, Joel. “Cognitive authority, expertise, and the conspiracist mindset: using ideas from Patrick Wilson and Anthony Giddens to analyze QAnon”. Conference publication. Information Dis/Order in Contemporary Times. University Library. Information Dis/Order in Contemporary Times, 2023. Handle placeholder.

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