Research co-conducted by Marc Tuters was featured in a Buzzfeed News article written by Craig Silverman and Jane Lytvynenko. The text is based on a study on the dissemination of conspiracy theory literature on Amazon and the platform’s little efforts to this presence. The study was conducted by members of the Infodemic.eu group (Marc Tuters, Jonathan Gray, Liliana Bounegru, Alex Gekker), students and researchers from the Kings College London, participants of the 2021 Digital Methods Winter School. See also their research reports here and here.
blog posts
- Mapping 4chan/pol/’s country flags
- An overview of 4chan/b/ archives: What is left of the Internet’s cesspool?
- The Gamification of ‘Lone Wolf’ Terrorism on 4chan and 8chan
- Travelling tokens: Following extreme terms from 4chan/pol/ to Breitbart
- Doomscrolling till daylight: How r/politics witnessed the 2020 US elections
- The Birth of QAnon: On How 4chan Invents a Conspiracy Theory
- Reactionary Wokeness: How Redpilling Became a Thing on Reddit
- Normiefication of extreme speech and the widening of the Overton window
- Infinity’s Abyss: An Overview of 8chan
- Not So General: Mapping Issue Publics on 4chan/pol
- 4chan’s YouTube: A Fringe Perspective on YouTube’s Great Purge of 2019
- The Baker’s Guild: The Secret Order Countering 4chan’s Affordances
- Who are (((they)))?: On Online Hate, Tasteless Transgression, and Memetic Versatility
- QAnon: On Protest LARPing and the Normiefication of 4chan’s Bullshit
- Freedom and taboos in the international ghettos of the web
- Rendering legible the ephemerality of 4chan/pol/
- The Rise and Fall of Kekistan: A Story of Idiomatic Animus as Told Through Youtube’s Related Videos
- ‘Deus Vult!’: Tracing the Many (Mis)uses of a Meme
- Arktos’ Reformulation of the Far-Right
- 4chan/pol/ Image Walls: Themes
public
- [publication] Memecry: Tracing the repetition-with-variation of formulas on 4chan/pol/
- [publication] How Science Gets Drawn Into Global Conspiracy Narratives
- [publication] Inside the Cult of Stefan Molyneux: A Historical Exploration of Far-Right Radicalisation on YouTube
- [publication] Based and confused: Tracing the political connotation of a memetic phrase across the Web
- [publication] A God-Tier LARP? QAnon as Conspiracy Fictioning
- [publication] Deep state phobia: Narrative convergence in coronavirus conspiracism on Instagram
- [publication] ‘Who is /ourguy/?’: Tracing panoramic memes to study the collectivity of 4chan/pol/
- [publication] A Prelude to Insurrection: How a 4chan Refrain Anticipated the Capitol Riot
- [publication] A free market in extreme speech: Scientific racism and bloodsports on YouTube
- [publication] The Internet Hate Machine: on the Weird Collectivity of Anonymous Far-Right Groups
- INC’s Critical Meme Reader co-edited by Jack Wilson and Daniël de Zeeuw
- [publication] On the Vernacular Language Games of an Antagonistic Online Subculture
- [publication] Why Meme Magic is Real but Memes are Not: On Order Words, Refrains and the Deep Vernacular Web
- [publication] Fashwave and the False Paradox of Ironic Nazism
- Amazon misinformation research featured in Buzzfeed News
- Talk on anti-Semitic memes in De Balie [Dutch]
- [publication] Book chapter in Book of Anonymity
- OILab disinformation research in NRC Handelsblad [Dutch]
- “‘I don’t believe in facts’. Manufacturing reality in times of crisis” – panel at SPUI25
- Daniël de Zeeuw on NPO Radio 1 [Dutch]