Philemon Bantimaroudis, Maria Sideri, D. Ballas, Theodore Panagiotidis, Athanasios Ziogas
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Abstract
This study examines students’ social media interactions in relation to their subcultural explorations of a conspiratorial nature. A sample of 476 students from four European universities participated in a survey about conspiracy theories in social media group discussions. In the
survey, we examined various social and media factors in relation to students’ beliefs in conspiracy theories. The results of this exploratory study reveal that students treat social media as news sources; furthermore, they trust social media more than traditional mass media. The study
reveals demographic, personal and technological factors that encourage a mediated conspiratorial discourse.
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The International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics (MCP) is a peer-reviewed journal aiming at analysing social and cultural communication processes with an interdisciplinary approach. MCP pays attention to contemporary issues striving to encourage academic responses to pressing world events, offering policy-oriented thinking. The content focus is critical, in-depth analysis and engaged research of the intersections of communication and media studies, sociology, politics, economics, and cultural studies with the aim of keeping academic analysis in dialogue with the practical world of communications, culture and politics. The journal publishes theoretical and empirical contributions from a wide and diverse community of researchers, and from any methodological and epistemological approach.
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