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#Rumors: A Roundtable Discussion with Mladen Dolar, Richard Dyer, Alexandra Juhasz, Tavia Nyong’o, Marc Siegel, and Patricia Turner

Author(s): Baer, Nicholas W.Hennefeld, Maggie

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Unverified beliefs and truth-claims have been topics of enduring fascination for scholars of media and culture, gaining renewed urgency with the viral spread of fake news via social media and the bitter attacks on scientific knowledge amid the Covid pandemic and climate crisis. In this roundtable discussion, we gather six distinguished thinkers to help us understand rumors, gossip, and the broader allure and danger of unsubstantiated information. With their wide-ranging expertise, our six panelists address the ramifications of rumors and gossip for queer underground cinema, political allegory, star and celebrity cultures, AIDS and Covid media activism, racialised belief systems, and the status of truth and logos in our time.

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Baer, Nicholas W.; Hennefeld, Maggie: #Rumors: A Roundtable Discussion with Mladen Dolar, Richard Dyer, Alexandra Juhasz, Tavia Nyong’o, Marc Siegel, and Patricia Turner. In: NECSUS_European Journal of Media Studies, Jg. 11 (2022), Nr. 1, S. 194-210. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/18817.
@ARTICLE{Baer2022,
 author = {Baer, Nicholas W. and Hennefeld, Maggie},
 title = {#Rumors: A Roundtable Discussion with Mladen Dolar, Richard Dyer, Alexandra Juhasz, Tavia Nyong’o, Marc Siegel, and Patricia Turner},
 year = 2022,
 doi = "\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/18817}",
 volume = 11,
 journal = {NECSUS_European Journal of Media Studies},
 number = 1,
 pages = {194--210},
}
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