nam 22 uu 4500 duepublico_mods_00000796 10.25926/bmjn-pe70 doi duepublico_mods_00000796 ger DE-601 rda eng 800 sdnb Alber, Jan Author aut Disruptive Narratives. A New Research Program Alber, Jan;Niehr, Thomas;Sigwart, Hans-Jörg text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier In this article, we seek to delineate a new research program that involves the analysis of disruptive narratives. The term covers conspiracy narratives, stories spread in the context of disinformation campaigns, and populist discourse, but also radical challenges to our life styles. Some of these stories propose largely invented (or fictive) realities, while others are still clearly fact-based. What all disruptive narratives have in common is their potential to shock: they try to present radically alternative events and thus urge their recipients to challenge established authorities. For us ‘disruption’ is a descriptive and thus ethically neutral term that merely signals an interest in disturbing a given political order. Such stories deserve greater attention because they play an ever more important role in the public spheres in Western countries such as Britain, Germany, or the US. We will thus address questions such as: How are these narratives structured? What about the interplay between the content and the form? What are these stories trying to achieve? What about their ideological ramifications or political consequences? Who spreads them? Who feels attracted by them? article Niehr, Thomas Author aut (DE-588)122131789 Sigwart, Hans-Jörg Author aut (DE-588)1120345669 Fakultät für Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften DIEGESIS Jg. 12 (2024) H. 2 host institution his 12:2<141 Fakultät für Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften, DIEGESIS Diegesis 2195-2116 duepublico_mods_00000079 https://elpub.bib.uni-wuppertal.de/receive/duepublico_mods_00000796 object in context https://elpub.bib.uni-wuppertal.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/duepublico_derivate_00001062/dej23120207.pdf raw object https://elpub.bib.uni-wuppertal.de/rsc/thumbnail/duepublico_mods_00000796.png preview https://elpub.bib.uni-wuppertal.de/receive/duepublico_mods_00000796 uri