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Tillit, misstro och konspirationer: En kvalitativ studie om produktionen av tillit och misstro i en konspiratorisk facebookgrupp mot strålning
Södertörn University, School of Social Sciences, Sociology.
Södertörn University, School of Social Sciences, Sociology.
2020 (Swedish)Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
Abstract [sv]

Coronapandemin 2020 påverkar hela den civiliserade världen och förändrar inte bara hur vi agerar i den fysiska världen utan också hur vi agerar i cyberspace. Kritik mot telekommunikationsföretag och deras utveckling av 5G-teknik har ökat under denna pandemi på grund av en konspirationsteori som förbinder det med spridningen av coronaviruset.Denna studie av Nathalie Carlsson och Martin Hage syftar till att förstå hur medlemmar i en konspirationsinriktad facebookgrupp visar förtroende för gruppen i fråga och producerar misstro gentemot icke-medlemmar, telekommunikationsföretag samt myndigheter. Denna studie utgår från en netnografisk datainsamling och argumentationsanalys av inlägg i gruppen, i ett försök att hitta mönster som kan kopplas till uttryck och produktion av tillit samt misstro.

Studiens resultat visar ett antal roller inom gruppen och aktiviteter som exempelvis mätning av strålning efterliknar grunderna för strukturerad skepticism. Den strukturerade skepticismen visar hur gruppen producerar tillit internt och dess tes samt skapar misstro mot de som gruppen anser vara ”eliten”. Gruppens argumentativa strategi består av att vara selektiv med informationskällor och att betona på personliga erfarenheter av symtom. Administratören och gruppens argument leder till handlingar med mål att främja gruppens tes samt att uttrycka tillit internt och producera misstro externt.

Abstract [en]

The pandemic of 2020 is affecting all of the civilized world and is not only changing how we act in the physical world, but also how we act in cyberspace. Criticism towards the development of 5G technology has grown during this pandemic due to a conspiracy theory connecting it to the spreading of the coronavirus. This study by Nathalie Carlsson and Martin Hage aims to understand how members in a 5G conspiracy-oriented group on Facebook produce and show trust towards its group and creating mistrust towards non-members, telecommunication companies and governing bodies. This study uses a netnographic gathering of data and argumentative analysis of posts in the aforementioned group in an attempt to find patterns that can be connected to the expressions and production of trust and mistrust.

The results show how certain roles within the group as well as their content makes it applicable for structured skepticism, a theory about production of trust and mistrust. Through the administrator and their measuring methods the group is able to produce and express trust towards internally, as well as mistrust towards those who the group considers to be the “elite”. Through argumentative strategies such as usage of selective source material and personal experience of symptoms, the group creates and maintains mistrust against authorities and production of trust towards the group. The administrator, the measuring and these arguments contribute to actions with the goal of promoting the groups thesis and expressing both trust and producing mistrust while doing so. 

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2020. , p. 36
Keywords [en]
Conspiracy, 5G, covid-19, Facebook, social media, trust, mistrust, structured skepticism.
Keywords [sv]
Konspiration, 5G, covid-19, Facebook, sociala medier, tillit, misstro, strukturerad skepticism.
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Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)
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URN: urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-43871OAI: oai:DiVA.org:sh-43871DiVA, id: diva2:1524104
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Sociologi
Uppsok
Social and Behavioural Science, Law
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Available from: 2021-02-01 Created: 2021-01-31 Last updated: 2025-10-07Bibliographically approved

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