Strategic Conspiracy Narratives: A Semiotic Approach (Conspiracy Theories)

Part I. Theoretical framework -- Semiotic conflicts in strategic communication: conceptualising the conflict of meanings, on the specificity of the informational influencing on social media, information conflicts and strategic narratives -- A semiotic approach to conspiracy theories: studying conspiracy theories spreading on the Internet, the functions of identity creation in conspiracy theories, the semiotic approach to conspiracy narratives -- Part II. Semiotic analysis of strategic Soros conspiracy narratives -- Strategic Soros conspiracy narratives in politics, marketing and alternative knowledge: strategic construction of conflict in conspiracy narrative, George Soros - the Grand Old Scapegoat of contemporary conspiracy narratives, the strategic devices of the Soros conspiracy narratives -- The main meaning-making mechanisms of strategic conspiracy narratives, conspiracy theories as a trigger of affective communication, transmedial strategic conspiracy narratives.

• | Author: Mari-Liis Madisson
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: September 14, 2020
• | Number of Pages: 144 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0367030985
• | ISBN-13: 9780367030988