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Researcher
Stef Aupers
- Disciplines:Communications, Communications technology, Social psychology, Marketing, Social change, Political behaviour, Communication sciences, Information sciences, Journalism and professional writing, Media studies, Audiovisual art and digital media
Affiliations
- Institute for Media Studies (Research unit)
Member
From1 Oct 2014 → Today
Projects
1 - 10 of 10
- Conspiracist, Leaker, Troll, Influencer: A comparative analysis of four post-truth personaeFrom1 Oct 2021 → TodayFunding: FWO junior postdoctoral fellowship
- Truth seekers in the age of deep mediatizationFrom15 Mar 2021 → TodayFunding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Truth is Broken: Online conspiracy theories in competition with scienceFrom1 Nov 2020 → 31 Oct 2021Funding: BOF - postdoctoral mandates
- Broadcasting Together. Production, Sociality, and Identity in YouTube's Conspiracy CultureFrom13 May 2020 → TodayFunding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Contextualizing Conspiracy Theories: A Qualitative study of Conspiracy Theories in and about Armenia(ns)From4 Jan 2020 → 10 Nov 2021Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Imagining Opaque Power. The Production and Consumption of Conspiracy Theories on YouTubeFrom1 Jan 2019 → 31 Dec 2022Funding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects)
- Being Human: Exploring the Social Relations between Humans and Intimate Technological Others in Everyday LifeFrom13 Feb 2017 → 8 Dec 2021Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Games of Social Control: A Sociological Study of 'Addiction' to Massively Multi-Player Online Role-Playing GamesFrom1 Jan 2017 → 31 Dec 2020Funding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects)
- Games of Social Control: A Sociological Study of 'Addiction' to Massively Multi -Player Online Role-Playing GamesFrom1 Oct 2016 → 30 Sep 2020Funding: BOF - Concerted Research Project from 1994
- Playing at Religion: Encoding/decoding religion in videogamesFrom1 Nov 2014 → 4 Sep 2020Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
Publications
1 - 10 of 71
- Debating (in) echo chambers: How culture shapes communication in conspiracy theory networks on YouTube(2023)
Authors: Luca Carbone, Stef Aupers
- Marketable Religion: How Game Company Ubisoft Commodified Religion for a Global Audience(2023)
Authors: Lars de Wildt, Stef Aupers
Pages: 63 - 84 - Everything Is Connected. Relocating Spiritual Power from Nature to Society(2022)
Authors: Stef Aupers
Pages: 245 - 270Number of pages: 25 - Picturing Opaque Power: How Conspiracy Theorists Construct Oppositional Videos on YouTube(2022)
Authors: Stef Aupers
- Pressure to Play: Social Pressure in Online Multiplayer Games(2022)
Authors: Cindy Krassen, Stef Aupers
Pages: 13 - 24 - Being Human: Exploring the Social Relations between Humans and Intimate Technological Others in Everyday Life(2021)
Authors: Iulia Coanda, Stef Aupers
- Digital Religion(2021)
Authors: Stef Aupers, Lars de Wildt
Number of pages: 22 - Games of Social Control: Understanding Social and Technical Pressure in Online Multiplayer Games(2021)
Authors: Cindy Krassen, Stef Aupers
- Contesting Epistemic Authority: Conspiracy Theories on the Boundaries of Science(2021)
Authors: Stef Aupers
Pages: 179 - 202 - ‘Down the Rabbit Hole’: Heterodox Science on the Internet(2021)
Authors: Stef Aupers, Lars de Wildt
Pages: 65 - 87