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

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Content type	Content type Digital Document
Collection(s)	Collection(s) University Library
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Genre	Genre conference publication

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Date Created/Date Issued	2023
Publisher	Information Dis/Order in Contemporary Times

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Persons	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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Publication Title	Publication Title Information Dis/Order in Contemporary Times
Publication Genre	Publication Genre conference proceeding

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Use and Reproduction	Use and Reproduction 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.
Use License	Use License Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)

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Keywords	Keywords QAnon cognitive authority Patrick Wilson Anthony Giddens conspiracy theories
Subject Topic	Subject Topic QAnon conspiracy theory Conspiracy theories Information resources Information integrity

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

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