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

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dc.contributor.authorCaliskan, Cem
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-13T10:35:27Z
dc.date.available2024-03-13T10:35:27Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.departmentİstanbul Beykent Üniversitesien_US
dc.description.abstractThe 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.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/14683857.2022.2137900
dc.identifier.issn1468-3857
dc.identifier.issn1743-9639
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85141017779en_US
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ1en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/14683857.2022.2137900
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12662/4431
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000874727400001en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ1en_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Scienceen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopusen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherRoutledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltden_US
dc.relation.ispartofSoutheast European And Black Sea Studiesen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessen_US
dc.subjectConspiracy theoriesen_US
dc.subjectpolitical communicationen_US
dc.subjectTurkeyen_US
dc.subjectTwitteren_US
dc.subjectpandemicen_US
dc.titleWho is behind the Plandemic? Analysing the different ideological conspiracy theory endorsements on Turkish Twitteren_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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