Who is behind the Plandemic? Analysing the different ideological conspiracy theory endorsements on Turkish Twitter

IF 0.8 2区社会学 Q2 AREA STUDIES

Southeast European and Black Sea Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-27 DOI:10.1080/14683857.2022.2137900

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Abstract

The Plandemic conspiracy theory, which advances that the Covid-19 pandemic was an orchestrated event, was propagated via digital platforms across various countries throughout the pandemic, including Turkey. In this article, I analyse the conspiratorial tweets about the Plandemic on Turkish Twitter through CDA to show dispositions of different ideologies to conspiracy theories in Turkey. Findings show that the users combine the conspiracy theories that originated in the West with those that originated in Turkey to fortify the conspiratorial narrative concerning the Plandemic. I also detect the ideologies of tweets and users by elaborating their lexica and discourses, and I categorize them as conservative/Islamist and oppositional. The analysis shows that the Islamist/conservative community is likelier to employ the general characteristic of conspiracy in their discourse, meaning that they utilize a more mythic discourse based on unquestionable, godly storytelling. Nonetheless, the secular/opposition community also promotes the Plandemic conspiracy to cursorily criticize social injustice. [ FROM AUTHOR]

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谁是Plandemic的幕后主使?分析土耳其推特上对不同意识形态阴谋论的支持

Plandemic阴谋论认为新冠肺炎大流行是一场精心策划的事件，并在整个大流行期间通过数字平台在包括土耳其在内的各个国家传播。在这篇文章中，我通过CDA分析了土耳其推特上关于Plandemic的阴谋推文，以显示土耳其对阴谋论的不同意识形态的倾向。调查结果显示，用户将源自西方的阴谋论与源自土耳其的阴谋论相结合，以强化有关Plandemic的阴谋叙事。我还通过阐述推特和用户的词汇和话语来检测他们的意识形态，并将他们归类为保守派/伊斯兰派和反对派。分析表明，伊斯兰/保守派群体更有可能在他们的话语中使用阴谋的一般特征，这意味着他们使用了一种基于毫无疑问的、神圣的故事的更具神话色彩的话语。尽管如此，世俗/反对派团体也提倡计划主义阴谋，粗略地批评社会不公正。[来自作者]

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Southeast European and Black Sea Studies AREA STUDIES-

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3.00

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19.00%

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期刊介绍： The aim of the journal is to establish a line of communication with these regions of Europe. Previously isolated from the European mainstream, the Balkan and Black Sea regions are in need of serious comparative study as are the individual countries, no longer "at the edge" of Europe. The principal disciplines covered by the journal are politics, political economy, international relations and modern history; other disciplinary approaches are accepted as appropriate. The journal will take both an academic and also a more practical policy-oriented approach and hopes to compensate for the serious information deficit on the countries under consideration.