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Strategic Conspiracy Narratives proposes an innovative semiotic
perspective for analysing how contemporary conspiracy theories are
used for shaping interpretation paths and identities of a targeted
audience. Conspiracy theories play a significant role in the viral
spread of misinformation that has an impact on the formation of
public opinion about certain topics. They allow the connecting of
different events that have taken place in various times and places
and involve several actors that seem incompatible to bystanders.
This book focuses on strategic-function conspiracy narratives in
the context of (social) media and information conflict. It
explicates the strategic devices in how conspiracy theories can be
used to evoke a hermeneutics of suspicion - a permanent scepticism
and questioning of so-called mainstream media channels and dominant
public authorities, delegitimisation of political opponents, and
the ongoing search for hidden clues and coverups. The success of
strategic dissemination of conspiracy narratives depends on the
cultural context, specifics of the targeted audience and the
semiotic construction of the message. This book proposes an
innovative semiotic perspective for analysing contemporary
strategic communication. The authors develop a theoretical
framework that is based on semiotics of culture, the notions of
strategic narrative and transmedia storytelling. This book is
targeted to specialists and graduate students working on social
theory, semiotics, journalism, strategic communication, social
media and contemporary social problems in general.
Strategic Conspiracy Narratives proposes an innovative semiotic
perspective for analysing how contemporary conspiracy theories are
used for shaping interpretation paths and identities of a targeted
audience. Conspiracy theories play a significant role in the viral
spread of misinformation that has an impact on the formation of
public opinion about certain topics. They allow the connecting of
different events that have taken place in various times and places
and involve several actors that seem incompatible to bystanders.
This book focuses on strategic-function conspiracy narratives in
the context of (social) media and information conflict. It
explicates the strategic devices in how conspiracy theories can be
used to evoke a hermeneutics of suspicion - a permanent scepticism
and questioning of so-called mainstream media channels and dominant
public authorities, delegitimisation of political opponents, and
the ongoing search for hidden clues and coverups. The success of
strategic dissemination of conspiracy narratives depends on the
cultural context, specifics of the targeted audience and the
semiotic construction of the message. This book proposes an
innovative semiotic perspective for analysing contemporary
strategic communication. The authors develop a theoretical
framework that is based on semiotics of culture, the notions of
strategic narrative and transmedia storytelling. This book is
targeted to specialists and graduate students working on social
theory, semiotics, journalism, strategic communication, social
media and contemporary social problems in general.
This book introduces relational thinking to political analysis.
Instead of merely providing an overview of possible trajectories
for articulating a relational political analysis, Peeter Selg and
Andreas Ventsel put forth a concrete relational theory of the
political, which has implications for research methodology,
culminating in a concrete method they call political form analysis.
In addition, they sketch out several applications of this theory,
methodology and method. They call their approach "political
semiotics" and argue that it is a fruitful way of conducting
research on power, governance and democracy - the core dimensions
of the political - in a manner that is envisioned in numerous
discussions of the "relational turn" in the social sciences. It is
the first monograph that attempts to outline an approach to the
political that would be relational throughout, from its meta
theoretical and theoretical premises through to its methodological
implications, methods and empirical applications.
This book introduces relational thinking to political analysis.
Instead of merely providing an overview of possible trajectories
for articulating a relational political analysis, Peeter Selg and
Andreas Ventsel put forth a concrete relational theory of the
political, which has implications for research methodology,
culminating in a concrete method they call political form analysis.
In addition, they sketch out several applications of this theory,
methodology and method. They call their approach "political
semiotics" and argue that it is a fruitful way of conducting
research on power, governance and democracy - the core dimensions
of the political - in a manner that is envisioned in numerous
discussions of the "relational turn" in the social sciences. It is
the first monograph that attempts to outline an approach to the
political that would be relational throughout, from its meta
theoretical and theoretical premises through to its methodological
implications, methods and empirical applications.
The book "CONSTRUCTING POLITICAL IDENTITIES IN PUBLIC DISCOURSE OF
STALIN ERA. The mechanism of the cult of the leadership in
construction of "Soviet people"" focuses on the problem of
political identities. How these were created by power in public
media on the period 1940-1953, it began with the occupation of the
Republic of Estonia by the Soviet Union and ended with the death of
Stalin. The theoretical goal of this book is to create a
theoretical-conceptual framework, based on the idea of an I-centred
constitution of the pronoun "we" as put forth by the French
linguist Emile Benveniste. Latter is further developed with the
conception of "the people" drawn from Ernesto Laclau, one of
today's most renowned theorists of hegemony and the leading figure
of the Essex school of discourse theory, and Juri Lotman's ideas in
semiotics of culture. The analyzed material is composed of the
largest daily newspapers Paevaleht (issues from 1938, 1939 and
1940) and Rahva Haal (issues from 1940 to 1941 and issues from 1944
to 1953). The essential part of the sources is formed of speeches
of the politicians published in the press and of the editorials of
the daily newspapers."
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