Essays about: "Post-truth"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 16 essays containing the word Post-truth.

1. 1. Critical Discourse Analysis of COVID-19 Conspiracy Theory Videos. : A Study of Popular Videos in Arabic Media.

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

   Author : Hussein Alwaday; [2022]
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   Abstract : COVID-19 hit the world causing global health, social and political problems. Exceptional misinformation about the pandemic has been circulating through social media and contributed to the public panic and confusion about how to deal with the crisis. READ MORE

3. 2. The Visual Transformation of Security Narratives: Visual Culture of the German Querdenker Movement on Instagram

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

   Author : Meriel Olga Ott; [2022]
   Keywords : Querdenker; visual culture; COVID-19; ontological security; identity; Instagram; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic the post-truth and increasingly radicalized anti-vaccine movement has gained worldwide attention as a major opponent of Covid-restricting efforts. In Germany, the anti-vax movement Querdenker have staged several large-scale protests opposing the ’undemocratic’ government. READ MORE

4. 3. The Cultural Production of Climate Disinformation : A Social Network Analysis of the NIPCC

   University essay from Södertörns högskola/Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap

   Author : Erik Björklund; [2022]
   Keywords : Disinformation; climate change; post-truth; social network analysis; The Cultural Industries; climate communication; NIPCC; IPCC; scientific realism; conspiracy theories; alternative epistemological realities;

   Abstract : This master thesis in media and communication studies examines the production and dissemination of disinformation regarding climate change. Utilizing a synthesis of social network analysis, cultural industries, and disinformation studies. It is a study of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change and its production of texts. READ MORE

5. 4. The Audience as Investigator

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/JMG - Inst f journalistik och masskomm

   Author : Nina Mueller; [2021-08-19]
   Keywords : democratisation; content; open-source journalism; open-source spaces;

   Abstract : Journalism, a discipline traditionally formed by a variety of disruptions, currently faces a disruption with global dimension: The digitalisation represents a democratisation of content, which allows various kinds of new actors to ent e r the journalistic stage. Thus, the internet heralded an era of fake news and post truth, which left journalism almost voiceless. READ MORE

6. 5. When fake news make the news. A study of journalistic boundaries.

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för journalistik, medier och kommunikation

   Author : Anton Fridolfsson; [2021-07-27]
   Keywords : Fake news; post-truth; professional boundaries; boundary work; journalistic paradigm; propaganda; misleading information;

   Abstract : This thesis takes a spearheaded look at a modern, much-talked about concept of misleading information known as ”fake news”, and how traditional journalists have handled its emergence with regards to their professional boundaries. Built on the premise that who and what is to be considered journalism is a constant battle continuously fought between professional journalists and actors trying to lay claim to their professional territory, through the use of qualitative ethnographic content analysis of 88 journalistic texts, the study’s aim is to take initiative in academic concept development of how to define fake news, and explore in what ways traditional journalists have defended their professional boundaries, in light of the threat provided by the increasing prevalence of misleading content in the information ecosystem, as well as by an anti-establishment, critical of-traditonal-media post-truth culture. READ MORE