Session Five: The QAnon phenomena

 Session Five: The QAnon phenomena

Music: Sarah Bareilles & John Legend, "A Safe Place to Land,"Link to Site

Essential Questions:

• What is QAnon? What are its primary beliefs?

• Why do people gravitate to its ideas? 

• How influential is it? What is its future?

• How can a QAnon believer be transitioned away from it?

Gathering: "A question that I have about QAnon is..."

Rick's Rap: DVE in the news, homework

Speaker: Sara Aniano, graduate student, Monmouth University

Homework

• Adrienne LaFrance, "The Prophecies of Q,"The Atlantic Magazine, June 2020, Link to Site

• video, "QAnon's Corrosive Impact on the U.S.", 60 Minutes/CBS, 2/21/21Link to Site

• Sue Muncaster, "My Gentle, Intelligent Bother is Now a Conspiracy Theorist and His Beliefs are Shocking," Huffington Post, 1/21/22  Link to Site

• Sara Aniano, "The Darker Side of Social: QAnon Instagram Comments Before the Capitol Riots,"

Global Network on Extremism and Technology, 6/14/21 Link to site 

Resources:

• Lisette Voytko, "How to talk with and maybe help someone who believes in QAnon and other conspiracy theories," Forbes, 8/26/20 Link to Site

 • Jon Stewart & Gabriel Gatehouse, "Why Do People Love QAnon,"The Problem with Jon Stewart, 1/27/22 Link to Site

• "The QAnon Conspiracy: Destroying Families, Dividing Communities, Undermining Democracy," Rutgers University /Miller Center for Community Protection & Resilience and American University/ Polarization and Extremism  Research and Innovation Lab, 2021 Link to Site

• Charlie Warzel, "Don't Go Down the Rabbit Hole,"NY Times, 2/18/21 Link to Site

• "QAnon After Trump: Where did it come from, where will it go?" DW Analysis , 2/25/21 Link to Site

• Sean Illing, "The Future of QAnon, Explained By 8 Experts,: Vox, 2/24/21Link to Site

• Domenico Montanaro, "Q & A: Documentary Unravels twisted Knots of QAnon Movement," NPR, 1/22/21 Link to Site

• QAnon, Wikipedia, accessed 8/1/21 Link to Site

• Seyward Sarby, "Confronting the Threat of QAnon," NY Times, 6/29/21 Link to Site

• Kevin Rose, What is QAnon, the Viral Pro-Trump Conspiracy Theory?, NYTimes,  6/15/21Link to Site

• Giovanni Russonello, "QAnon Now as Popular in US as Some major Religions, Poll Suggests,"NY Times, 5/27/21 Link to Site