Truth Claims Across Media

This open access book offers an intermedial approach to truthful communication. 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 per...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Schirrmacher, Beate (Editor), Mousavi, Nafiseh (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2024, 2024
Edition:1st ed. 2024
Series:Palgrave Studies in Intermediality
Subjects:
Online Access:
Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Introduction: The Dynamics of Truthfulness and Media
  • 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
  • Chapter 3. The Montage of the National Past: Polish Right-Wing Illustrated Press and the Abuse of History
  • Chapter 4. Trustworthiness in the Swedish Strategies for Covid-19 in Recorded Press Conferences from the Public Health Agency of Sweden
  • Part II Personal Quests for Empirical Truth: Testimony and Media Hybridity
  • Chapter 5. Unveiling Truth and Truthfulness in the Graphic Memoir Heimat
  • Chapter 6. Cameras, Pencils, Traumas: Drawn Images in and as Documentary Practice
  • 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
  • Chapter 8. Clemens J. Setz on Bursting the Reader’s Reality Bubble
  • Chapter 9. “An Occasionally True Story”: Biofiction, Authenticity and Fictionality in The Great (2020)
  • Chapter 10. Impure Realism, Pure Eventness, and Horror Cinema in the Post-truth Era: A Case Study of One Cut of the Dead
  • 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
  • Chapter 12. When the Post-Truth Devil Hides in the Details: A Digital Ethnography of Virtual Anti-Vaccination Groups in Lithuania
  • Chapter 13. Towards a Grammar of Manipulated Photographs: The Social Semiotics of Digital Photo Manipulation