"EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED": NETWORKED CONSPIRITUALITY IN NEW AGE MEDIA
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چکیده
Conspirituality refers to the confluence of New Age spirituality and conspiracism that frame reality through holistic thinking—connecting events energies, inner self outer world in unseen ways. has thrived online: between pleasure weekly horoscope obsession with QAnon drop is a mode causal promiscuity which, as Q puts it, “future proves past.” This panel traces forms conspirituality from MAGA mystics influencers, technolibertarian imageboards Silicon Valley vision quests. While marks an online psychographic segmentation, it also formal quality organizes ways navigating, knowing, critiquing internet, which undergirded by spirituality’s perennialism: belief different spiritual traditions are equally valid, because they all essentially worship same divine source emanates throughout cosmos human body. The internet supercharges perennialism, providing connective medium for ideology manifesting: we create our own reality. As users trawl snippets statistics feed their confirmation bias populate boards, manifests toxicity misinformation at scale. papers this develop line research on coevolution technology organized new religious movements. Instead demystification, use ethnographic, textual, hermeneutic approaches—examining users, governance, genealogies, studies itself—to politicize networked vernacular theories power powerlessness.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Selected papers of internet research
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['2162-3317']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5210/spir.v2021i0.12093