Truth Claims Across Media.

• Superior document: Palgrave Studies in Intermediality Series.
• Author: Schirrmacher, Beate.
• TeilnehmendeR: Mousavi, Nafiseh.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2024.; ©2024.
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Intermediality Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (347 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction: The Dynamics of Truthfulness and Media -- 1.1 Facts, Fakes, and Truths: A Media-Oriented Approach -- 1.2 Truth Claims Across Media: The Intermedial Approach -- 1.3 Truths, Truth Claims, Truthfulness, and Trust -- 1.4 Knowledge Communication, Authenticity, and Witnessing in a Changing Mediascape -- 1.5 Disposition of This Volume -- 1.5.1 Part I Factual Evidence and Coherence in Knowledge Communication -- 1.5.2 Part II Personal Quests for Empirical Truth: Testimony and Media Hybridity -- 1.5.3 Part III Fact and Fake Across Media Types -- 1.5.4 Part IV Interaction, Trust, and Truthfulness on Social Media -- 1.6 Conclusion: The Dynamics of Truthfulness and Media -- References -- Part I: Factual Evidence and Coherence in Knowledge Communication -- Chapter 2: A Story Too Good to Be True: The Manipulation of Truth Claims in Faked News -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 News, Facts, and Fiction -- 2.3 The Truth Claims of Media and the Perception of Truthfulness -- 2.4 Alexander Osang: "K.'s First Day at School" -- 2.4.1 Observed and Verifiable Details: Events Grounded in External Truthfulness -- 2.4.2 Coherence: Narrative Coherence Anchored in External Truthfulness -- 2.4.3 External Coherence in Contrast to Specific Events -- 2.5 Claas Relotius's "The Story of Ahmed and Alin" -- 2.5.1 Lack of Verifiable Details -- 2.5.2 Internal Coherence Between Observed Details -- 2.5.3 Events Verified by Intradiegetic Stories -- 2.5.4 Colliding Truth Claims: Authenticity and Authority -- 2.5.5 Coherence Replaces Specific and Verifiable Time and Place -- 2.5.6 External Coherence, Recognition Effects -- 2.6 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: The Montage of the National Past: Polish Right-Wing Illustrated Press and the Abuse of History -- 3.1 Introduction.

3.2 The Agency of Magazine Covers -- 3.3 Montage on Magazine Covers -- 3.4 Montage Within Covers -- 3.5 Montage Between Covers -- 3.6 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Trustworthiness in the Swedish Strategies for Covid-19 in Recorded Press Conferences from the Public Health Agency of Sweden -- 4.1 Introduction and Background -- 4.2 Trust and Trustworthiness -- 4.3 Aim and Research Questions -- 4.4 Material, Methods, and Theory -- 4.5 Analysis and Results -- 4.5.1 Genre-Specific Features in Covid-19 Press Conferences -- 4.5.2 The Topic of Death Numbers -- 4.5.3 The Topic of Face Masks -- 4.5.4 Situatedness and Multimodality -- 4.6 Discussion of the Results of the Analysis -- References -- Part II: Personal Quests for Empirical Truth: Testimony and Media Hybridity -- Chapter 5: Unveiling Truth and Truthfulness in the Graphic Memoir Heimat -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Truthfulness in Mediated Communication -- 5.3 Truthfulness in Comics and in Graphic Memoirs -- 5.4 Media Representation, Transmediation, and Associated Media in Heimat -- 5.5 Communicating Truthfulness in Heimat -- 5.6 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: Cameras, Pencils, Traumas: Drawn Images in and as Documentary Practice -- 6.1 Night and Fog in Kurdistan: The Genocide of Yazidis and the Predicaments of Representation -- 6.2 Representational Gaps and the Representational Shift Between Photographic and Hand-Drawn Images -- 6.3 Mobilised Drawn Images in Action for Remembering, Testifying, Witnessing, and Mapping -- 6.4 Remembering the War-Stricken Childhood -- 6.5 Testifying on the Genocide -- 6.6 Mapping the Refugee Journey -- 6.7 Conclusion: Emergent Potentials and Critical Doubts -- References -- Part III: Fact and Fake across Media Types.

Chapter 7: Fictionality as a Rhetorical Tool in Political Mockumentary Films: The Interplay of Fictionality and Factuality in C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America -- 7.1 Fictionality in Documentaries -- 7.2 Fictionality in Mockumentaries -- 7.3 Ideology and Politics in Mockumentaries -- 7.4 Genre Imitation and Satiric Excess in C.S.A. -- 7.5 Reception and the Criticism of the Media -- References -- Chapter 8: Clemens J. Setz on Bursting the Reader's Reality Bubble -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Clemens J. Setz and the Author Interview -- 8.3 The Author Interview as a Turing Test in Bot -- 8.4 Bot in the Realm of the Faketional -- 8.5 Author-Character Setz in the Uncanny Valley -- 8.6 Bot: A Reflection on the Perception of Truth Claims -- References -- Chapter 9: "An Occasionally True Story": Biofiction, Authenticity and Fictionality in The Great (2020) -- 9.1 Between Anti-historicity and Biography -- 9.2 From Biopic to Screen Biofiction -- 9.3 The Great as a Queen Pic -- References -- Chapter 10: Impure Realism, Pure Eventness, and Horror Cinema in the Post-truth Era: A Case Study of One Cut of the Dead -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Theoretical Premises: Beyond Genre -- 10.3 Zombies, the Impure, and the Return of Repressed "Post-truth" -- 10.4 Conceiving a Pure Event-Image -- 10.5 Conclusion -- References -- Part IV: Interaction, Trust, and Truthfulness on Social Media -- Chapter 11: Developing Misinformation Immunity in a Post-Truth World: Human Computer Interaction for Data Literacy -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Media Literacy in the Post-truth World -- 11.2.1 From Media Literacy to Data Literacy -- 11.2.2 Fallacies as Misperceptions of Truthfulness -- 11.2.3 Human Computer Interaction as an Educational Tool for Data Literacy -- 11.3 The Fake News Immunity Chatbot -- 11.3.1 Chatbot Design -- 11.3.2 Design of the Gamification Experience.

11.3.3 Questionnaire Design -- 11.3.4 Beta Testing Results -- 11.4 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 12: When the Post-Truth Devil Hides in the Details: A Digital Ethnography of Virtual Anti-Vaccination Groups in Lithuania -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.1.1 Theoretical Considerations: Alternative Epistemologies in Post-truth Publics -- 12.1.2 Methodological Challenges and Decisions -- 12.2 Mechanics of the Research: Data Gathering -- 12.3 Mechanics of the Method: Data Analysis -- 12.4 Research Results: Dominant Narratives and Topics in the Groups "Skiepų žala" and "Po-skiepo.lt" -- 12.4.1 Crisis of Trust -- 12.4.2 Competing Against Science -- 12.4.3 Populism -- 12.4.4 Anti-public Discourse -- 12.5 Contextual Considerations in Post-truth Research: The Devil Always Hides in the Details? -- 12.6 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 13: Towards a Grammar of Manipulated Photographs: The Social Semiotics of Digital Photo Manipulation -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 Theoretical Background -- 13.3 Software -- 13.4 Manipulating Interpersonal Meaning Potential -- 13.4.1 Validity -- 13.4.2 Offering a Point of View -- 13.5 Manipulating Ideational Meaning Potential -- 13.5.1 Representing Existence -- 13.5.2 Representing Attribution -- 13.5.3 Representing Physical Actions -- 13.5.4 Representing Emotions, Thoughts and Expressions -- 13.6 Manipulating Structural Meaning Potential -- 13.6.1 Foregrounding -- 13.6.2 Placement -- 13.7 Discussion -- 13.8 Conclusion -- References -- Index.