The concept and name were coined by paranormal blogger and author Fiona Broome, who developed a website of the same name that focused on “Alternate Memories/Alternate Realities.”[^23] She explains that she launched her website “to describe …Bibliography
Asprem, Egil. “The Magical Theory of Politics: Meme Magic, the Cult of Kek, and How to Topple an Egregore.” Forthcoming in Nova Religio.
Asprem, Egil and Asbjørn Dyrendal. “Conspirituality Reconsidered: How Surprising and How…[^16]: Colin Campbell, “The Cult, the Cultic Milieu and Secularization,” in A Sociological Yearbook of Religion in Britain 5 (1972): 119–36. Reprinted in Jeffrey Kaplan and Heléne Lööw eds., The Cultic Milieu: Oppositional Subcultures in an…
Fiona Broome
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Fiona Broome is a paranormal blogger and author who coined the term "Mandela Effect" to describe shared false memories or alternate realities, launching a website to document what she framed as an emerging phenomenon. She appears in the course readings as a case study in how internet-native communities construct collective narratives around cognitive anomalies, particularly relevant to discussions of how digital networks amplify and institutionalize alternative epistemologies at the intersection of spirituality, conspiracy culture, and networked belief formation.
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