Truth Claims Across Media

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.

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.