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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Hello CSAA folk, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">A reminder that the University of Tasmania Media School Seminar Series is being held tomorrow on Wednesday 27<sup>th</sup> September (from 4:15pm)! To register to attend (you can attend
online!), please follow the link at the bottom of the page.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#39364F;letter-spacing:.55pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Dr Jay Daniel Thompson: Speaking with others: Conspiracy actors, stereotypes and performative speech
acts in recent journalistic reportage The Air Case: A novel approach for making environmental documentary</span></b><b><span style="font-size:24.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#39364F;letter-spacing:.55pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:#6F7287;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Since the COVID-19 pandemic was declared in early 2020, there has been a global upsurge in online conspiracies. Correspondingly, there has
also been a rise in media articles that proffer tips and suggestions on how readers might speak to conspiracy-believing loved ones, in order to dissuade them from their views and/or to maintain a relationship with those individuals even in spite of such views.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:#6F7287;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">This paper asks: ‘To what extent can ‘how to speak to a conspiracy actor’ articles challenge hostile stereotypes of those actors and ameliorate
the ‘us versus them’ standoff that characterises conspiracy rhetoric’? The paper teases out this question through a Critical Discourse Analysis of several such articles published in Australia, North America and the United Kingdom. The paper hypothesises that
these texts can play a crucial role in helping to salvage bonds between conspiracy actors and their loved ones, and in destigmatising those actors. This destigmatising may be compromised, though, and public understandings of conspiracy actors distorted, if
the journalist invokes stereotypes of conspiracists as irrational, exotic and ‘other’.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:#6F7287;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">The paper deploys and extends the notion of performative speech acts as this has been elucidated by theorists such as Judith Butler. The
articles under review are not only providing guidance on how to speak with ‘others’; they are (re)presenting and perhaps (re)constructing the world in which conspiracies and their proponents – indeed, we all - exist. This is a world, the paper suggests, in
which conspiracy theorising, misinformation and ‘fake news’ – far from being aberrations or fringe phenomena – have become increasingly mainstreamed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#1E0A3C;letter-spacing:.4pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">About the Speaker</span></b><b><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#1E0A3C;letter-spacing:.4pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Roboto;color:#6F7287;background:white;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Dr. Jay Daniel Thompson is Lecturer and Program Manager in the Professional Communication program, School of Media and Communication at RMIT University.
His research investigates ways of cultivating ethical online communication to ameliorate digital hostility and networked disinformation. Dr. Thompson is the co-author of Fake News in Digital Cultures (with Professor Rob Cover and Dr. Ashleigh Haw) and Content
Production for Digital Media (with Associate Professor John Weldon), both published in 2022.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">To attend (in person or by Zoom) please register at the following address:
<a href="https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/media-school-seminar-dr-jay-daniel-thompson-tickets-413887708277">
https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/media-school-seminar-dr-jay-daniel-thompson-tickets-413887708277</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#131213;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Dr Gemma Blackwood</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#131213;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><br>
Lecturer, Media<br>
The Media School/ School of Creative Arts and Media <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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University of Tasmania<br>
Private Bag 17<br>
Hobart TAS 7001<br>
T: +613 6226 2305 | <a href="mailto:Gemma.Blackwood@utas.edu.au"><span style="color:#0563C1">Gemma.Blackwood@utas.edu.au</span></a>
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