Knowledge goes pop : : from conspiracy theory to gossip / / Clare Birchall.
A voice on late night radio tells you that a fast food joint injects its food with drugs that make men impotent. A colleague asks if you think the FBI was in on 9/11. An alien abductee on the Internet claims extra-terrestrials have planted a microchip in her left buttock. 'Julia Roberts in Porn...
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| Superior document: | Culture Machine ; v.v. 3 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Abingdon, Oxon ;, New York, NY : : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,, 2020. |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Culture Machine
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (202 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s). |
| Notes: | "First published 2006 by Berg Publishers." |
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Table of Contents:
- Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Know It All; 2 Just Because You're Paranoid, Doesn't Mean They're Not Out to Get You; 3 Cultural Studies on/as Conspiracy Theory; 4 Hot Gossip: The Cultural Politics of Speculation; 5 Sexed Up: Gossip by Stealth; Conclusion: Old Enough to Know Better? The Work of Cultural Studies; Endnotes; Bibliography; Index