Digital Game Box: The Digital Game Box serves as a central portal for educators and educational multipliers. Our overarching goal is to support you in fostering democratic identity, resilience, and (self-)efficacy in order to increase learners’ overall resilience towards conspiracy theories and disinformation. This is achieved by leveraging the motivating and engaging power of game-based learning approaches.
ACTOR is a nonprofit academic association, set up by the TaCT-FoRSED project. It aims to foster interdisciplinary research and knowledge sharing on conspiracy theories and related domains. The association is an intellectual hub connecting academics, students, and educators engaged in the critical study of conspiracy theories across disciplines. Through conferences, a web‑based platform, a newsletter, and collaborative research initiatives, ACTOR aims to support scholarly dialogue and the development of analytical frameworks for understanding conspiracy theories as complex social, political, and cultural phenomena. If you have a scholarly interest in conspiracy theories and related phenomena, we invite you to join us by completing an application form.
This protocol provides a comprehensive guide for gathering parliamentary datasets across multiple countries, setting out a structured and replicable approach for sourcing, selecting, and preparing parliamentary extracts. It is based on an executable code written in Python that uses the Selenium library to automate the downloading of PDF documents and was developed by Irene Baena Álvarez and Francisco Castillo Eslava, under the leadership of Alejandro Romero Reche at the University of Granada. While it has been developed in support of the project’s particular aims, it may be easily adapted for other parliaments, other time periods, and be used to study a wide range of different research topics unrelated to conspiracism. Potentially, it can be adjusted to collect data on absolutely any topic discussed in a parliament.
Publications
Newsletters, Leaflets, Flyers
First edition of ‘Behind the Curtain’, the newsletter of TaCT-FoRSED.
Second edition of ‘Behind the Curtain’, the newsletter of TaCT-FoRSED
Peer-reviewed publications
Peer-reviewed publications arising from the TaCT-FoRSED project
A comparative framework for explorative cross-country analysis of factors promoting and inhibiting conspiracy theories.
Open Research Europe; December 2025
Further publications
Publications by members of the TaCT-FoRSED consortium, relevant to the topic of the project but not describing project results, nor funded by the project.
Verschwörungsideologie und Demokratie: Strukturen, Ursachen, Effekte und Antworten [Conspiracy Ideology and Democracy: Structures, Causes, Effects and Responses]
Nomos, 1. Edition 2025.
Christoph, Stefan: Zwischen Mythen und Militanz: Die Reichsbürgerbewegung als institutionalisierte Herausforderung der Demokratie [Between myths and militancy: The Reichsbürger movement as an institutionalized challenge to democracy]
In: Straßner, A., Bein, S. (eds) Demokratie zwischen normativem Postulat und empirischer Realität. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. First Online:
Stockemer and Bordelau 2025: Conspiracy Theories and their Believers A Comparative Outlook.
Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft. 19, 417–421 (2025).
Demokratie zwischen Kontestation und Dekontestation: Gedanken zu einer kontestatorischen Demokratietheorie am aktuellen Beispiel des Verschwörungsdenkens [Democracy between contestation and decontestation: Thoughts on a contestatory theory of democracy using the current example of conspiracy thinking]
Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen. 32(2) 158–177 (2026).
Game-Based Learning als Beispiel für einen methodischen Ansatz zur Förderung von Resilienz gegen Verschwörungstheorien und der Selbstwirksamkeit der Demokratie [Game-based learning as an example of a methodological approach to promoting resilience against conspiracy theories and the self-efficacy of democracy]
In: Firsova-Eckert, E., Schuster, J., Vajen, B. (eds) Verschwörungstheorien als Herausforderung in der Pädagogik und Politischen Bildung. Bürgerbewusstsein. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. First Online:
