The digital gothic: horror and hoaxes online

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April 24, 2023 • 24 mins

The internet is filled with stories of ghosts, ghouls and monsters, as well as stories that claim to be authentic evidence of hauntings, curses and possessions. In this episode (recorded in 2022), internet horror researchers Erika Kvistad (University of South-Eastern Norway) and Line Henriksen (Malmö University) talk about the ghosts that haunt our digital technologies, and what happens when a horror hoax ages.

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