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Datification of conspiracy fragments and opposition to the green transition
University of Borås, Faculty of Librarianship, Information, Education and IT. (Information Practices & Digital Cultures)
2024 (English)In: The Nordic Network of Conspiracy Theory Research Inaugural Conference Book of Abstracts, Lund, 2024Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Refereed)
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Abstract [en]

“Climate change is a hoax — at least it's not a crisis — and the ‘green transition’ is part of the Great Reset with the ultimate goal of enabling the Great Replacement. Wind farms, solar panels, attempts to reduce meat consumption, or car dependency are all part of a plan by powerful elites to control and manipulate the world's population.” Conspiracy narratives often share striking similarities across various topics. This also applies to the climate crisis. Here, such narratives seem to be proliferating in recent years on certain high-profile issues where change is needed to combat and mitigate climate change, such as energy, food, and mobility, to name just the most obvious. The climate change counter-movement (CCCM) is active on many fronts. Although it contains an undercurrent of conspiratorial thinking, particularly in relation to what is termed science denial, this is not its most dominant characteristic. Recently, however, it appears that an opportunistic exploitation of already established conspiracy narratives increasingly taps into the discontent of groups negatively affected by measures to reduce greenhouse gases, subsumed under the term green transition. This transition is entangled in conflicting goals and interests. If these are not addressed, they will have potentially far-reaching implications for public acceptance of measures to mitigate climate change and society’s ability to reduce GHG and to adapt to the climate crisis. To explain, there are concrete, negative impacts on many communities that will affect people in certain parts of society disproportionately more than others. This includes the loss of jobs in certain industries and regions, nature destruction through mining of rare earth metals, or the construction of wind farms on traditional Sámi reindeer herding lands. All over Europe and in Sweden, local advocacy groups form in opposition to such projects. Their activities are often organised and communicated online, be it on Facebook, a mailing list, WhatsApp, or similar platforms that are open to the leakage of content from other groups and, importantly, other advocacy areas. I am interested in how the informational texture of advocacy issues related to the green transition is constituted by their interrelation with other (contested) issues, particularly online. I want to analyse the joining together of data fragments, i.e., fragments of facts, of conspiracy narratives, of anecdotal and other forms of evidence, etc., to map how or whether opposition to green transition initiatives links to the climate change countermovement. 

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Lund, 2024.
Keywords [en]
climate denial, disinformation
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Information Studies
Research subject
Library and Information Science
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-33012OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hb-33012DiVA, id: diva2:1924287
Conference
The Nordic Network of Conspiracy Theory Research Inaugural Conference, 23-24 May 2024
Projects
Information Cultures, Data and Technology in Environmental Communication
Funder
Mistra - The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research, Mistra Environmental CommunicationAvailable from: 2025-01-03 Created: 2025-01-03 Last updated: 2025-09-24Bibliographically approved

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