Welcome to Straightwide American Jesus. My name is Brad O'Nishi. I am

Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Skidmore College and I am thrilled

today to be joined by Mark Andre Argentino, who is a PhD candidate in the individualized program

at Concordia University and is also a 2020, 2021 public scholar there.

He's also an associate fellow with the Global Network

on Extremism and Technology, G-Net,

and that is located at Kings College and London. And today, Mark Andre is here to talk with me about QAnon,

the QAnon Infodemic, as he calls it, and it's links to Evangelicals. So Mark Andre, thanks so much for joining me.

Thank you for having Bradley. I'm happy to be here. I'm quite excited.

Well you, first of all I wanted to ask if you could tell us you have just a fascinating interdisciplinary

sort of PhD program you're doing so can you tell us about your research and

how it works with the program there at Concordia?

Yep so the individualized program at Concordia? Yes, so the individualized program at Concordia is a program that is developed for individuals

that want to do inter-disciplinary work.

Basically when your project doesn't necessarily fit within

one department or you require, you know, to combine multiple disciplines, it's a place where you go.

It doesn't require for you to have a very clear plan and clear strategy in your research, it requires a bit more from the get-go.

And in my case, I've always been interested with the nexus of technology, religion, and extremist ideologies,

whether that is groups like ISIS, which kind of started on my PhD a few years ago to groups in the far right to you know extreme

evangelicalism and Christian identity and all that type of stuff and right now I'm interested in

Q and on so I'm in the Department of Theological Studies, Department of

Engineering, and the Department of Computer Science.

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