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Alec McHoul
Alien Abduction Narratives
alternative knowledge dissemination patterns
Author_Clare Birchall
Blair's Decision
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Category=JBFW
Category=JHBA
Category=JHM
CIA Analysis
CIA Headquarter
conspiracy theory
cultural epistemology
Diana's Death
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food
Foucault's Pendulum
Gilligan's Report
Gilligan's Source
Gossip Industry
gossip mag
Hutton Inquiry
Id
Iraqi National Congress
media influence analysis
Medical School Committee
misinformation studies
Mortal Risk
Popular Knowledge
popular knowledges
Princess Diana
qualitative cultural research
September 11
social belief formation
Sokal Affair
Ten Percenters
Top Secret
UK Tabloid
Unlimited Dispersal
unofficial knowledge systems
Vice Versa
Wlad Godzich
Product details
- ISBN 9781845201432
- Weight: 370g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Aug 2006
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Clare Birchall is Senior Lecturer at Middlesex University.
