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Contagion and Conviction: Rumor and Gossip in American Culture

Year: 2020

Type: article

Abstract: In recent years, scholarly and political discourses have increasingly tended to rhetorically conflate the circulation of information and the circulation of viral pathogens. Rumor and gossip are routinely taken to be “contagious” (Franks and Attia) and the massive circulation of information in the public sphere is said to be akin to “viral events” (Nahon and Hemsley). Trapped within the precarious logic of absolute metaphors (cf. Blumenberg 14), scholarly and political discourses have, in tur...

Source: European Journal of American Studies

DOI: 10.4000/ejas.16356

Authors: Pierre-Héli Monot, Florian Zappe

Institutions: Harvard University, King's College London, Brown University, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Peter Lang, University of Göttingen

Language: English

Topic: Misinformation and Its Impacts

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W3119359263

FWCI: 0.332

Cites: 9

Cited by: 2

Related to: 10