Marc Tuters published a blog post on The Conversation touching on the spread of online conspiracies, algorithms, and fringe subcultures. The text provides an overview of current literature as well as a range of his and OILab’s work.
blog posts
- 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
- 4chan/pol/ Image Walls: Memes
public
- [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]
- Interview on QAnon in NRC Handelsblad [Dutch]
- [publication] Tracing Normiefication: A Cross-Platform Analysis of the QAnon Conspiracy Theory
- [publication] “Trump Shit Goes into Overdrive”: Tracing Trump on 4chan/pol/
- [publication] “‘Teh Internet is Serious Business’: On the Deep Vernacular Web Imaginary and its Discontents”
- [publication] Generally Curious: Thematically Distinct Datasets of General Threads on 4chan/pol/
- Marc Tuters on #ObamaGate in The Conversation