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Project: Between Facts and Stories

This project explores how journalistic narrative strategies convey information and provide understanding of current events. The challenges of fake news, disinformation or conspiracy theories in public discourse have been widely discussed. The project looks into the interplay between fact and narrative strategies in journalism. How can journalist convey the facts about current events with narrative strategies that create engagement and provide understanding?

Project information

Full project name
Between Facts and Stories: truth claims and narration of journalism
Project manager
Beate Schirrmacher
Timetable
September 2020–
Subject
Intermedial studies (Department of Film and Literature, Factulty of Arts and Humanities)

More about the project

The project explores journalistic narrative strategies. Journalists use narratives to convey information and to grab attention with a story that sells. Instead of pitting facts against narratives, this project asks how narratives about recent events can be told in a truthful and engaging way and remain truthfully anchored in the facts even when spread across digital platforms.

The project is part of the research in the research groups Linnaeus University Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies (IMS) and Intermediality, Multimodality and News (IMS News)

Publications

Schirrmacher, B. (2024). A Story Too Good to Be True: The Manipulation of Truth Claims in Faked News. In: Schirrmacher, B., Mousavi, N. (eds) Truth Claims Across Media. Palgrave Studies in Intermediality. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.

Staff