An Ethnography of Conspiracy Theories

Social Insight — POSTED BY Cosmo on December 10, 2009 at 6:04 pm

Damien DeBarra is a regular blogger at www.blather.net
[http://www.blather.net/index.htm]. DeBarra is also student at the
University of Edinburgh on the Msc. in e-learning course, currently
doing the ‘Digital Cultures’ semester [http://digitalculture-ed.net/]

.For this course he was asked to conduct a ‘virtual ethnography’
[http://digitalculture-ed.net/damiend/] of an online community of his
choosing. Throwing sanity to the wind, he decided to choose the 9/11
Conspiracy theories. The result is the following talk, given at the
Dublin Paracon on November 7th.