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.