Damien's E-learning and Digital Cultures Blog

Week 7 has seen me delving further into the field site that I started defining last week – the 9/11 conspiracy theories. In watching these I have been attempting to do two primary things:

1. Indentify the ‘digital winks’ that I mentioned before
2. Identify the method(s) by which the 9/11 conspiracy theory movement arrive at shared ‘truth’ or ‘authentcity’

Specifically I have found myself watching clips from two key ‘eyewitnesses’ to the events of 9/11 – Barry Jennings and Wally Miller – both of whom have been quoted xtensively by the Truthers and both of whom objected to their misquotation and depiction in the 9/11 narratives.

These two examples will form the core of my virtual ethnography and represent the focus of this week’s lifestream.