Bookshelf — Elise Wang

Conspiracy Theory Resources

These are a few texts that I have found useful for my work that I think offer the best entry-level introduction to the concepts. I am adding to this as texts occur to me; they are in no particular order. Some of these are more technical than others; especially accessible texts are in bold.

Richard Hofstadter, “The Paranoid Style in American Politics,” Harper’s, 1964.

Deen Freelon and Chris Wells. "Disinformation as political communication." Political Communication, 2020).

Kate Starbird, "Rumors, false flags, and digital vigilantes: Misinformation on Twitter after the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing," IConference, 2014

Michael Golebiewski and danah boyd, Data Voids, 2018

Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, “A Most American Terrorist: The Making of Dylann Roof,” 2017

Zeynep Tufekci, “YouTube, the Great Radicalizer,” The New York Times, 2018.

danah boyd, “You Think You Want Media Literacy: Do you?" Data & Society, 2018

J. Eric Oliver and Thomas J. Wood, Conspiracy Theories and the Paranoid Style(s) of Mass Opinion, American Journal of Political Science, 2014

P.M. Krafft and Joan Donovan, “Disinformation by Design: The Use of Evidence Collages and Platform Filtering in a Media Manipulation Campaign,” Political Communication, 2020.

Sara Lipton, Dark Mirror: The Medieval Origins of Anti-Jewish Iconography, Henry Holt and Company, 2014.

Magda Teter, Blood Libel: On the Trail of an Antisemitic Myth, Harvard University Press, 2020.

Victoria Emma Pagán, Conspiracy Theory in Latin Literature, 2012

The top of my piles

At this point, my to-be-read piles are less a plan than they are an elaborate art installation representing the passage of time. Still, I persevere, and these are at the top.

For Fun:

Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness, Penguin 2021

For Work:

Jesús Rodriguez-Velasco, Dead Voice, UPenn 2020

Conspiracy Theory Resources

The top of my piles

For Fun:

For Work:

Elise Wang

elwang@fullerton.edu