02418nam 2200397 450 991071999960332120230704144053.0(CKB)5710000000123707(NjHacI)995710000000123707(EXLCZ)99571000000012370720230704d2006 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierKnowledge Goes Pop From Conspiracy Theory to Gossip /Clare BirchallOxford :Berg Publishers,2006.1 online resource (xv, 183 pages)Includes bibliographical references and index.A voice on late night radio tells you that a fast food joint injects its food with drugs that make men impotent. A colleague asks if you think the FBI was in on 9/11. An alien abductee on the Internet claims extra-terrestrials have planted a microchip in her left buttock. 'Julia Roberts in Porn Scandal' shouts the front page of a gossip mag. A spiritual healer claims he can cure chronic fatigue syndrome with the energizing power of crystals . . . What do you believe? Knowledge Goes Pop examines the popular knowledges that saturate our everyday experience. We make this information and then it shapes the way we see the world. How valid is it when compared to official knowledge and why does such (mis)information cause so much institutional anxiety? Knowledge Goes Pop examines the range of knowledge, from conspiracy theory to plain gossip, and its role and impact in our culture.What do you believe? This title examines the popular knowledges that saturate our everyday experience. How valid is it when compared to official knowledge and why does such (mis)information cause so much institutional anxiety? It examines the range of knowledge, from conspiracy theory to plain gossip, and its role and impact in our culture.Clare Birchall is Senior Lecturer at Middlesex University.Knowledge Goes Pop Knowledge, Sociology ofSocial perceptionGossipKnowledge, Sociology of.Social perception.Gossip.306.42Birchall Clare800698NjHacINjHaclBOOK9910719999603321Knowledge Goes Pop1801978UNINA