Truth Claims Across Media

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.