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Truth Claims Across Media
Palgrave Studies in Intermediality
ISBN/EAN: 9783031420665
Umbreit-Nr.: 234941
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: xix, 339 S., 30 s/w Illustr., 339 p. 30 illus.
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Einband:
kartoniertes Buch
Erschienen am 21.12.2023
Auflage: 1/2024
- Zusatztext
- 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.
- Kurztext
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited accessEnriches existing literature on truth and media with a broad transmedial approachOffers new ways for understanding the clashing discourses of authenticity, fiction, facts and truthfulnessEmpowers media scholars to address the current social challenges of a globalized and digitalized society
- Autorenportrait
- 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.