Knowledge Goes Pop: From Conspiracy Theory to Gossip - Couverture rigide

Birchall, Clare

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1845201426 ISBN 13 : 9781845201425

Editeur : Berg Publishers, 2006

Synopsis

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 Scandal' shouts the front page of a gossip mag. A spiritual healer claims he can cure chronic fatigue syndrome with the energizing power of crystals . . . What do you believe? Knowledge Goes Pop examines the popular knowledges that saturate our everyday experience. We make this information and then it shapes the way we see the world. How valid is it when compared to official knowledge and why does such (mis)information cause so much institutional anxiety? Knowledge Goes Pop examines the range of knowledge, from conspiracy theory to plain gossip, and its role and impact in our culture.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Clare Birchall is Senior Lecturer at Middlesex University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Berg Publishers
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1845201426
• ISBN 13: 9781845201425
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 202
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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