Investigative Journalism, Amateur Scholarship, or Conspiracy Theorizing? Hey, What’s Your Problem, Anyway?
摘要
This chapter draws upon Roland Barthes’ Mythologies to advance an understanding of the present generally and of conspiracy culture specifically as experiencing a crisis of interpretation. Discusses the structural similarities between the three eponymous designations, and the implications thereof. Following from this, I argue that many sociological/psychological research premises regarding conspiracy culture, as discussed previously, are tautological and serve to perpetuate a status quo and compound the socio-economic difficulties experiences by marginalized communities.