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Everywhere All the Time : = Targeted Individuals, Platforms, and Rhetoric.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Everywhere All the Time :/
Reminder of title:	Targeted Individuals, Platforms, and Rhetoric.
Author:	Beresheim, Daniel Frederick.
Description:	1 online resource (249 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-04, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International84-04B.
Subject:	Software. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=29335773click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798352603222

Everywhere All the Time : = Targeted Individuals, Platforms, and Rhetoric.
Beresheim, Daniel Frederick.

Everywhere All the Time :Targeted Individuals, Platforms, and Rhetoric. - 1 online resource (249 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-04, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pittsburgh, 2022.

Includes bibliographical references

Over the past decade, there have been numerous disclosures about the extent to which people's electronic communications are being surveilled and used for other purposes without their knowledge. Events such as Edward Snowden's disclosures about mass surveillance or the Cambridge Analytica scandal have evoked widespread concern about diminished privacy in contemporary life. One group in particular takes the possibility of surveillance very seriously. "Targeted individual" (TI) is a self-applied descriptor employed by people who believe that they personally are being watched and harassed by the intelligence community. TIs allege that they are followed by what they term "gang stalkers" in public. They describe having their homes broken into and bugged by these shadowy actors. TIs even claim that voices are forcibly projected into their minds through "voice-to skull" technology, which they term "v2k." The TI movement owes a large part of its growth to online communities and media production. In such outlets, TIs often plea for freedom from their harassers. The tension emerging from TIs' calls to be left alone and their appearance in the semi-public space of online platforms calls for a theoretical intervention.This dissertation, utilizing insights from psychoanalysis, rhetorical theory, and media studies, argues that one generative way of understanding the TI movement is as a kind of psychotic cultural structure. More specifically, through tending to the movement's media production, I examine how the TI narrative becomes elevated to a level of significance such that it becomes an all-encompassing explanation for occurrences in an adherent's life. By focusing on newspaper editorials, the r/gangstalking subreddit, and YouTube videos that showcase the TI experience, I argue that scholars should tend to conspiracy theory as something practiced. In the case of TI media, part of that practice is the production and circulation of media about their experiences. I conclude with a consideration of the possibility of moderating media connected to the TI movement alongside other contemporary conspiracist movements, such as QAnon and those who believe the 2020 presidential election was stolen. I ultimately argue that content moderation does not change the underlying relationship that adherents have to such beliefs.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2023

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798352603222Subjects--Topical Terms:

619355
Software.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

542853
Electronic books.

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