Thursday, November 12, 2009

Blather DublinParaCon 2009: Evolution of Paranormal through Cyberspace


Blather, Rinse, Repeat: An Ethnography of Conspiracy Theory'.
Blather.net has been talking shite since 1997. UFOs, ghosts, conspiracy theories, Alien Big Cats, Lake Monster hunters, talking cows, rabid interns, drug-crazed lawyers and gangs of feral teenagers: we've faced them all down.

Now, after 12 long years rummaging through the bowels of the internet, Damien DeBarra takes us on an anthropological journey through cyberspace: looking at how our understanding of the paranormal has been shaped by the evolution of the web, and how, in a final hilarious twist, the web itself might be shifting in reaction to the paranormal...

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