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Truth Claims Across Media

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Editors:
  1. Beate Schirrmacher

    1. Department of Film and Literature, Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden

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  2. Nafiseh Mousavi

    1. Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

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  • This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
  • Enriches existing literature on truth and media with a broad transmedial approach
  • Offers new ways for understanding the clashing discourses of authenticity, fiction, facts and truthfulness
  • Empowers media scholars to address the current social challenges of a globalized and digitalized society

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Intermediality (PSI)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Introduction: The Dynamics of Truthfulness and Media

    • Beate Schirrmacher, Nafiseh Mousavi
    Pages 1-24Open Access
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  4. Personal Quests for Empirical Truth: Testimony and Media Hybridity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99
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    2. Unveiling Truth and Truthfulness in the Graphic Memoir Heimat

      • Camila Augusta P. de Figueiredo
      Pages 101-125Open Access
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    3. Cameras, Pencils, Traumas: Drawn Images in and as Documentary Practice

      • Nafiseh Mousavi
      Pages 127-150Open Access
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  6. Interaction, Trust, and Truthfulness on Social Media

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 243-243
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    2. Developing Misinformation Immunity in a Post-Truth World: Human Computer Interaction for Data Literacy

      • Elena Musi, Kay L. O’Halloran, Elinor Carmi, Simeon Yates
      Pages 245-271Open Access
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    3. When the Post-Truth Devil Hides in the Details: A Digital Ethnography of Virtual Anti-Vaccination Groups in Lithuania

      • Augustė Dementavičienė, Fausta Mikutaitė, Aivaras Žukauskas
      Pages 273-308Open Access
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    4. Towards a Grammar of Manipulated Photographs: The Social Semiotics of Digital Photo Manipulation

      • Morten Boeriis
      Pages 309-334Open Access
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  7. Back Matter

    Pages 335-339
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Film and Literature, Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden

    Beate Schirrmacher

  • Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

    Nafiseh Mousavi

About the editors

Beate Schirrmacher is an Associate Professor in Comparative Literature at Linnaeus University, Sweden. She is the head of the International Society of Intermedial Studies, and the co-editor of Intermedial Studies: An Introduction to Meaning across Media. Her research focuses on truth claims and narratives in journalism and the relations of music and literature.


Nafiseh Mousavi holds a PhD in comparative literature and teaches intermedial studies at Lund University, Sweden. Her research focuses on the intersections of intermediality, migration, and memory practices. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Truth Claims Across Media

  • Editors: Beate Schirrmacher, Nafiseh Mousavi

  • Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Intermediality

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42064-1

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2024

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-42063-4Published: 21 December 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-42066-5Published: 21 December 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-42064-1Published: 20 December 2023

  • Series ISSN: 2731-9512

  • Series E-ISSN: 2731-9520

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 339

  • Number of Illustrations: 30 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Literary Theory, Digital/New Media

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