This remained the case until November 2017, when two 4chan moderators – taking Q at its word to bring about a “Great Awakening” – reached out to YouTube influencers in a deliberate and co-ordinated effort to promote QAnon to a much larger a…JOHNSON, M.: Deep Play and Dark Play in Contemporary Cinema. In New Review of Film and Television Studies, 2019, Vol. 17, No. 4, p. 405-422. ISSN 1740-0309.
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J. Klein
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Klein appears in the course readings as a journalist documenting the infrastructural and platform dynamics that enabled QAnon's spread, specifically how blockchain-based sites like Steemit became vectors for conspiracy theory amplification. The citation positions Klein's reporting as evidence for how decentralized platforms, marketed as alternatives to corporate social media, can paradoxically become unmoderated spaces where algorithmic radicalization and coordinated information manipulation flourish—a key concern at the intersection of platform design, cybernetics, and social disruption that the seminar examines.
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