{"id":3282,"date":"2024-04-18T10:52:46","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T02:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/?p=3282"},"modified":"2024-04-22T14:36:11","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T06:36:11","slug":"conspiracy-theorists-leverage-reddit-as-a-third-place-to-anonymously-foster-a-sense-of-community-through-disseminating-alternative-narratives-to-shape-public-perception-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/csm\/3282\/conspiracy-theorists-leverage-reddit-as-a-third-place-to-anonymously-foster-a-sense-of-community-through-disseminating-alternative-narratives-to-shape-public-perception-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Conspiracy theorists leverage Reddit as a third place to anonymously foster a sense of community through disseminating alternative narratives to shape public perception."},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nABSTRACT\r\nThe Simulation Conspiracy theory was brought to fruition by David Icke in 2001, influenced by The Matrix movie theorists believe that reality is actually a holographic projection created by human thought fields. Conspiracy theorists leverage Reddit as a 'Third Place to anonymously foster a sense of community by disseminating alternative narratives to shape public perception this paper unpacks the community that conspiracy theorists have created on Reddit, using the subreddit r\/SimulationTheory <a href=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/csm\/3282\/conspiracy-theorists-leverage-reddit-as-a-third-place-to-anonymously-foster-a-sense-of-community-through-disseminating-alternative-narratives-to-shape-public-perception-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">...<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABSTRACT The Simulation Conspiracy theory was brought to fruition by David Icke in 2001, influenced by The Matrix movie theorists believe that reality is actually a holographic projection created by human thought fields. Conspiracy theorists leverage Reddit as a &#8216;Third Place to anonymously foster a sense of community by disseminating alternative narratives to shape public perception this paper unpacks the community that conspiracy theorists have created on Reddit, using the subreddit r\/SimulationTheory &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":322,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[579,574,576,577,580,578,575,583,581,582],"class_list":["post-3282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-csm","tag-alternativenarratives","tag-conspiracytheory","tag-davidicke","tag-matrixtheory","tag-realitysimulation","tag-redditcommunity","tag-simulationtheory","tag-thematrix","tag-truthseekers","tag-virtualworlds"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/322"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3282"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3286,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282\/revisions\/3286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}