EU Referendum (Free subscription) | 21/05/2008
From the academic who wrote this paper , an exploration of the fauxtography phenomenon and the "blogstorms" that exposed it. The paper includes an analysis of the role of EU Referendum in the lifting the lid off Qanaqate . It is longish (22 pages) but well worth reading as a clinical analysis of an important series of events, where the blogosphere took on the MSM and challenged its partisan and mendacious...
Not a sheep (Free subscription) | 22/05/2008
I have covered this subject before but have just found a new article that I think deserves wider reading. It is a piece entitled "A Concise History of the Fauxtography Blogstorm in the 2006 Lebanon War" and can be found at the American Communication Journal . The article includes a handy definition of fauxtography: "fauxtography refers to visual images, especially news photographs, which convey a questionable...
Webloggin (Free subscription) | 23/05/2008
People joke about the fact that lawyer’s “briefs” are so long. It is a good joke, but it misses the whole point of a true legal brief, which is to consolidate vast amounts of information culled from disparate sources into a single, coherent, lucid document. It's very difficult to do this well. Of course, [...]
Tangled Blog (Free subscription) | 22/05/2008
Perhaps you don't remember the staged photos from the Hizb’Allah/Lebanon- Israeli War of 2006. There was The Green Helmet Man, grieving, holding a dead child aloft. He was photographed multiple times, in multiple locations, with different children and the same grieving expression. There was an ambulance, supposedly hit by a missile, with little actual damage. And a grieving woman who had lost her home;...
Slublog (Free subscription) | 22/05/2008
Cool.By no means did Reuters's action bring a reduction in blog scrutiny of the war photojournalism. To the contrary, fresh questions arose about many other images on the next day, August 8. An anonymous blogger named Slublog assembled a montage...
NoisyRoom.net (Free subscription) | 22/05/2008
From Dissecting Leftism (John Ray also reported the French Court finding that the Al Dura affair was a hoax)... The AC Journal A Concise History of the Fauxtography Blogstorm in the 2006 Lebanon War Stephen D. Cooper, Marshall University Abstract Whatever the other consequences of the kinetic war between Israel and Hezbollah in the summer of 2006, it gave rise [...]
