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.

This 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 perception of the social world. The flexible communicative possibilities of digital technology have a significant impact on our perception of truth and truthfulness of communication. Bot accounts, deep fake videos, or AI technology draw 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. Instead, it is crucial to investigate how media products construct truthfulness in different ways. The volume brings together various media types and contexts such as 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.

"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 perception of the social world. The flexible communicative possibilities of digital technology have a significant impact on our perception of truth and truthfulness of communication. Bot accounts, deep fake videos, or AI technology draw 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. Instead, it is crucial to investigate how media products construct truthfulness in different ways. The volume brings together various media types and contexts such as 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." --