| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11401/76671 | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | This work is sponsored by the Stony Brook University Graduate School in compliance with the requirements for completion of degree. | en_US |
| dc.format | Monograph | |
| dc.format.medium | Electronic Resource | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY. | |
| dc.type | Thesis | |
| dcterms.abstract | Conspiracy theorists often use media technology to create and distribute their ideas to a wider audience. In doing so, these theorists also use the same technology to manipulate the images they are using, thus changing the way the photographs or film stills were meant to be received originally. In changing these aspects of the object, the conspiracy theorist is creating an entirely new narrative based on their personal values. Throughout this paper I will refer to this idea as the “culture of conspiracy†and use it to discuss how technologies such as photoshop, DVD players, and manipulative rhetoric are used to create theories that completely change the intent of a film or image. The paper is broken down into four case studies: The Zapruder film, Michaelangelo Antonioni’s 1966 film Blow Up. The 2012 Stanley Kubrick documentary Room 237, and the /r/findbostonbombers Reddit thread that was used to identify the Boston Marathon Bombers. Through a historiography of these evens I will trace the culture of conspiracy and how it has evolved with the changes in media technology over time. | |
| dcterms.available | 2017-09-20T16:50:56Z | |
| dcterms.contributor | Gaboury, Jacob | en_US |
| dcterms.contributor | Uroskie, Andrew | en_US |
| dcterms.creator | Gagliardi, Jennifer Carol | |
| dcterms.dateAccepted | 2017-09-20T16:50:56Z | |
| dcterms.dateSubmitted | 2017-09-20T16:50:56Z | |
| dcterms.description | Department of Art History and Criticism | en_US |
| dcterms.extent | 42 pg. | en_US |
| dcterms.format | Monograph | |
| dcterms.format | Application/PDF | en_US |
| dcterms.identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/11401/76671 | |
| dcterms.issued | 2017-05-01 | |
| dcterms.language | en_US | |
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| dcterms.publisher | The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY. | |
| dcterms.subject | conspiracy, film, media, technology | |
| dcterms.subject | Art history -- Film studies -- Cultural anthropology | |
| dcterms.title | The Culture of Conspiracy: Evolving Media Technology and Its Relationship to Conspiracy Theories | |
| dcterms.type | Thesis | |
