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15. Mai 2020
How news becomes false news
New ZiF research group on the effects of digital media
Social
media is changing communication just as much as the dissemination of
news. Radical positions that used to be voiced in the private sphere can
now reach a worldwide audience. The research group "Multimodal Rhetoric
in Online Media Communications" at the Center for Interdisciplinary
Research (ZiF) at Bielefeld University will investigate how
sub-communities and other interested parties create, manage and
disseminate information across media platforms. The researchers will
focus specifically on the role of language, images and videos in this
process. The group starts on May 18, with a virtual opening conference.
The aim is to develop analysis tools that will allow us track the
development and flow of different kinds of information, particularly
false information, across media platforms.
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