FRAMES OF MISINFORMATION, EXTREMISM, AND CONSPIRACISM (FOMEC)

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To enhance the confidentially of participants on discussion boards included in FOMEC, I have removed all reports prior to March 2022. They are available on request. Mistakes in a monthly report are corrected the next month.

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Monthly Reports

• December 2023 -- I will backfill months as I have opportunity.

• June 2023

• May 2023 (March, April, and May reports were released as a set)

• April 2023

• March 2023 

• February 2023 

• January 2023 (more typos than usual this month)

• December 2022 (Reddit not included)

• November 2022

• October 2022

• September 2022

• August 2022

• July 2022

• June 2022

• May 2022

• April 2022

• March 2022

  • 1st Quarter 2022 Supplement​

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Documentation

• Manual (partially complete)

• FOME Word/Phrase/Stem List [Excel format--sortable]. Date: About 25 October 2022.

• Stata Code. Files for October 2022 monthly flash report. Although written in Stata files, most people should be able to open these files in Notepad or Microsoft Word as text.

• Read Me! file provides terms and conditions for the use of FOME data, programs, and documentation.

 

Publications

• Rogers, R. L., & Powe, N. (2022). COVID-19 information sources and misinformation by faith community. Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing , 59. https://doi.org/10.1177/00469580221081388

• Rogers, R. L. (2021). Spiritual warfare and the Apocalypse: The religious framing of political violence among the American new right. In Crews, G., Markey, M. A., & Kerr, S., Eds., Mitigating mass violence and managing threats in contemporary society (pp. 85-104). IGI Global.

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Papers and Presentations

• Rogers, R. L. (2023). Perceptions of policing: A comparison of extreme-right and extreme-left discussion forums. (Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, March 18).

• Powe, N., & Rogers, R. (2023). Culturally tailored communication to reduce the spread of cancer misinformation and disinformation [poster]. Cancer Disparities Symposium, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center.

• Rogers, R. L. (2022). Social-media conspiracies and perceptions of sex crime: The mainstreaming of QAnon (American Society of Criminology, November 19). 

• Rogers, R. L. (2022). Theosophical influences in the formation of North American populism: Evidence from discussion forums and social media (Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, October 13).

• Rogers, R. L. (2022). Christian Radical Right and Potentially Violent Discourse (Henry Symposium, April 9, 2022).

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Student Projects

• Aliberti, D. M. (2022). Initial reaction to the death of George Floyd: Churches in Rust Belt cities and surrounding areas in Ohio and Western Pennsylvania. Unpublished master's thesis, Youngstown State University.

• Clark, A. N. (2022). Christian nationalists and their initial response to the death of George Floyd: Select churches and organizations in Southern California, Nevada, and Arizona. Unpublished master's thesis, Youngstown State University.

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Recommended Background Reading on Extremism and Conspiracy Theory

• Barkun, M. (2003). A culture of conspiracy: Apocalyptic visions in contemporary America. University of California Press.

• Gardell, M. (2003). Gods of the blood: The pagan revival and White separatism. Duke University Press.

• Merlan, A. (2019). Republic of lies: American conspiracy theorists and their surprising rise to power. Metropolitan Books.

• Uscinski, J. E., & Parent, J. M. (2014). American conspiracy theories. Oxford University Press.

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Recommended Reading on Current Events

• Amarasingam, A., & Argentino, M-A. (2020). The QAnon conspiracy theory: A security threat in the making? CTC Sentinel, 13(7), 37-43.

• Argentino, M.-A. (2020, May 28). In the name of the Father, Son, and Q: Why it’s important to see QAnon as a “hyper-real” religion. Religion Dispatches.

• Burke, D. (2020, October 15). How QAnon uses religion to lure unsuspecting Christians. NBC News.

• Davey, J., & Ebner, J. (2019). “The great replacement”: The violent consequences of mainstreamed extremism. Institute for Strategic Dialogue.

• Manseau, P. (2021). Religion at the Capitol siege with Peter Manseau. [Podcast.] Straight White American Jesus.

• Rogers, R. L. (2021). Spiritual warfare and the Apocalypse: The religious framing of political violence among the American new right. In Crews, G., Markey, M. A., & Kerr, S., Eds., Mitigating mass violence and managing threats in contemporary society. IGI Global.

• Taddino, P. (2021, April 14). After Jan. 6, investigating the contours of a “broad fascist movement” in the U.S. Frontline.