Among the truthers : a journey into the growing conspiracist underground of 9/11 truthers, birthers, armageddonites, vaccine hysterics, Hollywood know-nothings and Internet addicts by Kay, Jonathan, 1968- instant download

Among the truthers : a journey into the growing conspiracist underground of 9/11 truthers, birthers, armageddonites, vaccine hysterics, Hollywood know-nothings and Internet addicts by Kay, Jonathan, 1968- instant download

xxiii, 340 p. ; 24 cm, \"Since the JFK assassination, conspiracy thinking has proliferated, and the Internet has fostered the growth of numerous alternate conceptual worlds in which traditional media and academia have no authority. 9/11 was a death blow to the older consensual view of reality, and as a result, North Americans no longer inhabit one cognitive universe. What this means for the future of politics, and for our society at large, is at the heart of Among the Truthers\"--Http://www.harpercollins.ca, Includes index, \" ... focuses primarily on conspiracism in the United States and the Internet-based conspiracist culture that has grown out of it, with some coverage of prominent Canadian theorists who have taken an active role in promoting American conspiracist narratives\"--P. 19