What role does media and communication play in our perception of truth? How is truthful mediation constructed? These issues and much more will be discussed during the conference “Trust Me!” at Linnaeus University on March 10-12, 2021.
This conference addresses issues of truth claims and truthfulness in media in times of “post-truth”, “fake news”, and “alternative facts”. What is the role of media and communication in our perception of truth? How is truthful mediation constructed, and how might intermedial and multimodal concepts and methodological approaches be used to analyse it?