{"id":210223,"date":"2024-02-06T10:14:23","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T15:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/?p=210223"},"modified":"2024-02-09T11:21:47","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T16:21:47","slug":"taylor-swift-and-travis-kelce-in-baseless-political-conspiracy-theories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/2024\/02\/06\/taylor-swift-and-travis-kelce-in-baseless-political-conspiracy-theories\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce in Baseless Political Conspiracy Theories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/~penneyj\">Joel Penney<\/a>, Associate Professor in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/school-of-communication-and-media\/\">School of\u00a0 Communication and Media<\/a>, is quoted in an <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/super-bowl-taylor-swift-travis-kelce-conspiracy-theories-838ce3087c795cb45468d08ebbb27059\">Associated Press<\/a> article about how Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce have become the focus of baseless political conspiracy theories.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPop culture people identify with this stuff, they pay attention to it. And that\u2019s what moves politics now. It\u2019s attention and identity,\u201d said Penney.<\/p>\n<p>But the false claims about Swift are of such an extreme nature that they will test the limits of how potent a conspiracy theory can be. Penney sees the recent deluge of posts aimed at Swift as an attempt to preemptively blunt her impact by discrediting her.<\/p>\n<p>Penney said Swift\u2019s influence could prove a difficult force to contend with, especially if she publicly supports Biden, as she did in the 2020 race.<\/p>\n<span class=\"prpl-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/super-bowl-taylor-swift-travis-kelce-conspiracy-theories-838ce3087c795cb45468d08ebbb27059\">Read the full story<\/a><\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associated Press article featuring Joel Penney, Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Media <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":210224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-announcements","category-235_school-of-communication-and-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210223"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210226,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210223\/revisions\/210226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}