Knowledge Goes Pop : From Conspiracy Theory to Gossip

A voice on late night radio tells you that a fast food joint injects its food with drugs that make men impotent. A colleague asks if you think the FBI was in on 9/11. An alien abductee on the Internet claims extra-terrestrials have planted a microchip in her left buttock. 'Julia Roberts in Porn...

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Main Author: Birchall, Clare (auth)
Format: Book Chapter
Published: Oxford Berg Publishers 2006
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