What my internet looks like, after researching online fake news for six years

Eurozine

Cultural Journal/Kulturní časopis

How does disinformation overwrite the imagination and beliefs of those who consume it? With this half-serious programmatic manifesto for a deadly serious issue, Romanian journal Scena9 sets out to explore online fake news and the way it shapes our minds. It all started with a story. If I were to go back in time, mine was one with ‘Indians’ and Westmen and it was penned by Karl May. Many years later, I was to find out that the man who wrote Winnetou and Old Shatterhand had never actually been to the United States of America. He had only seen the Texan Llano Estacado on a map, where the Great American Desert was just a yellow blob. He had never ridden

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published: 23. 1. 2023

Datum publikace:
23. 1. 2023
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Eurozine