Saturation of the media with conspiracy narratives:
content analysis of selected Polish news magazines
Saturation of the media with conspiracy narratives:
content analysis of selected Polish news magazines
Author(s): Franciszek CzechSubject(s): Politics, Media studies
Published by: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
Keywords: conspiracy narratives; conspiracy theory; distrust; Poland; media; content analysis; teorie spiskowe; narracje spiskowe; Polska; media; analiza zawartości
Summary/Abstract: The article has three dimensions: methodological, theoretical, and empirical.A point of departure for the methodological remarks is a characterization of thethree main approaches in the vibrant interdisciplinary research field dealing with thephenomenon of conspiracy theories. In this context, the content analysis method isdiscussed as a promising approach to gain new data on conspiracy narratives. On thetheoretical level, the concept of conspiracy narratives is discussed in reference to thepopular understanding of the conspiracy theory. The main aim of the empirical part isdetermining to what extent the media are saturated with different kinds of conspiracynarratives. The analysis covers over 200 articles from two popular Polish news magazines(Sieci and the Polish edition of Newsweek) which occupy positions on oppositesides of the political divide in a society polarized, inter alia, by a conspiratorialsuspicion that in 2010 an airplane carrying President Lech Kaczyński on board wasdeliberately crashed in Russia.
Journal: Środkowoeuropejskie Studia Polityczne
- Issue Year: 2019
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 151-171
- Page Count: 22
- Language: English
