Marcus Gilroy-Ware explores how conspiratorial thinking thrives in a digital neoliberal world where truth is sold to the highest bidder and where alienation is rampant. Marcus Gilroy-Ware is a writer and scholar-activist who is focused on understanding how people learn about the world they live in through media. His work draws connections between a variety of fields, from political economy, to psychology, to journalism studies, to theorise the status of information in the late-capitalist public sphere. He is senior lecturer in digital media at UWE Bristol and author of Filling the Void - Emotion, Capitalism and Social Media (2017) and After the Fact - The Truth about Fake News (2020)" More information: http://www.mjgw.net/ Conspiracy Games and Countergames is a podcast exploring the rise of conspiratorial thinking in a gamified, capitalist world hosted by Max Haiven, A.T. Kingsmith and Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou. For more information, visit http://conspiracy.games
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Neoliberal feelings don't care about your facts - Interview with Marcus Gilroy-Ware (CGCG05)
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Neoliberal feelings don't care about your facts - Interview with Marcus Gilroy-Ware (CGCG05)
Jul 05, 2021
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