Truth Claims Across Media

ISBN-13: 9783031420665 / Angielski

Beate Schirrmacher; Nafiseh Mousavi

Spis treści

Chapter 1. Introduction: mapping the field beyond binaries.- Section I. Knowledge Communication: the importance of getting it right.- Chapter 2. ​ Fighting the Pandemic Through Translating Science: the situated positions of communicators in meaning production during a pandemic; Jo Roislien and Henriette Thune.- Chapter 3. Multimodality in the Swedish Strategies for Covid-19: caught between the genre demands of the press conference and the assigned of the Public Health Agency; Gunilla Byrman and Asborh Westum.- Chapter 4. Truth Claims in Animated Films: representing ecological crisis; Liviu Lutas.- Chapter 5. Truths About a Genocide that Happened Yesterday; Nafiseh Mousavi.- Section II. Coherence: telling stories beyond true/false, fact/fiction, fake/authentic.- Chapter 6. Manipulation of Truth Claims in Faked News: a story too good to be true; Beate Schirrmacher.- Chapter 7. Can Media Outlets and Platforms be 'true' or 'false'?; Kristoffer Holt.- Chapter 8. Clemens J. Sets on Bursting the Reader's Reality Bubble; Anna Obererlacher and Natasa Vukelic.- Chapter 9. Biofiction, Authenticiy and Fictionality in 'The Great' (2020): an occasionally true story; Anna Gutowska.- Chapter 10. Visual Assemblage: Polish right-wing illustrated magazines and the construction of false history; Magdalena Saruyz-Wolska.- Chapter 11. Fictionality as  a Rhetorical Tool in Political Mockumentary Films; Tamas Csonge.- Chapter 12. Uncovering Guilt and Truth in Nora Krug's Heimat: trying to 'cover up the crack'; Camila A. P. de Figueiredo.- Section III: 'Trust Me!': interaction, affect and performativity.- Chapter 13. The Grammar of Visual Truth: conveying trustworthiness in digital photography; Morten Boeriis.- Chapter 14. How Non-Sharing in Social Media Can Signal Trust; Pernilla Severson.- Chapter 15. Digital Ethnography of Lithuanian Anti-Vaccination Groups: where the distrust of the medical/scientific knowledge is born; Auguste Dementaviciene and Fausta Mikutaite.- Chapter 16. Its For Real: truth values and interpersonal meanings in toy's multimodal representations; Danielle Almeida.- Chapter 17. Truth in Advertising; Heidrun Fuhrer.- Chapter 18. Impure Realism, Pure Eventness, and Horror Cinema in the Post-Truth Era: a case study of 'One Cut of the Dead'; Yeqi Zhu.- Chapter 19. Performing Uncertainty: artistic inquiries of the 'truth' during the siege of Sarajevo; Senad Halilbasic.- Section IV: Bringing It Together in Practice.- Chapter 20. Untrust Us: modelleing fake news on Blockchain; Alexander Pfeiffer and Alesha Serada.- Chapter 21. Developing Fake News Immunity; Kay O'Halloran and Elena Musi.

O autorze

Beate Schirrmacher is an Associate Professor in Comparative Literature at Linnaeus University, Sweden. She is the head of the International Society of Intermedial Studies. and the co-editor of Intermedial Studies: An Introduction to Meaning across Media. Her research focuses on truth claims and narratives in journalism and the relations of music and literature.

Nafiseh Mousavi holds a PhD in comparative literature and teaches intermedial studies at Lund University, Sweden. Her research focuses on the intersections of intermediality, migration, and memory practices. 

Blurb

This book offers an interdisciplinary and transmedial approach to truthful communication in different media types. Bringing together a wide range of media types and interactions from a transmedial perspective, the volume maps out how truth claims are made in different contexts, and how different media promise to create a truthful perception of the social world. 

 

In contemporary societies, different truth claims collide, and old certainties are questioned. New possibilities to combine media and transfer information between different media types have not only revolutionized our ways of learning, working, and socializing, but have also had a significant impact on our perception of truth and truthfulness of communication. Digital technology, such as bot accounts or deep fake videos amplify the spreading of disinformation, in step with social crises such as political polarization, climate change and a pandemic, drawing attention to how reliable communication is destabilized and questioned.

 

In this unstable climate, binaries such as true/false, authentic/fake and fiction/facts are difficult to apply. Therefore, it is crucial to investigate how media products contribute to the perception of the truthfulness of what they communicate. The volume brings together various media types and contexts such as factional narration in journalism and literature, press conferences, documentaries and mockumentaries, images in magazines and on social media, horror movies, biopics, and educational games and explores how truth claims, authenticity discourses, and knowledge communication are established and how they collide, merge, or are confused.

This is an open access book.

Beate Schirrmacher is an Associate Professor in Comparative Literature at Linnaeus University, Sweden. She is the head of the International Society of Intermedial Studies. and the co-editor of Intermedial Studies: An Introduction to Meaning across Media. Her research focuses on truth claims and narratives in journalism and the relations of music and literature.

Nafiseh Mousavi holds a PhD in comparative literature and teaches intermedial studies at Lund University, Sweden. Her research focuses on the intersections of intermediality, migration, and memory practices.