ABSTRACT

This special issue addresses notions of fakery in our contemporary media environment, from fake news to the deepfake. While all media contains elements of creative fabrication, we define ‘media fakery’ as an attempt to conceal the origins of information that must contain a degree of human intentionality to be considered ‘fake’. Fakery is no longer limited to news media or any particular mode of communication; as tools for manipulating digital content are more readily available to all, the reach of fakery in media is increasingly broad. The essays in the special issue address varying definitions of ‘fakery’ in different forms of media production and consumption. They interrogate both the authentic and the fake and expand dichotomous understandings of media fakery as either ‘good’ or ‘bad’.

摘要

本期特刊探讨了我们当代媒体环境中的造假概念，从假新闻到深度造假。虽然所有媒体都包含创造性制造的元素，但我们将“媒体伪造”定义为试图隐藏必须包含一定程度的人类意图才能被视为“虚假”的信息来源。造假不再局限于新闻媒体或任何特定的传播方式；随着操纵数字内容的工具越来越容易为所有人所用，媒体造假的范围越来越广。特刊中的文章讨论了在不同形式的媒体生产和消费中对“伪造”的不同定义。他们审问真假，并扩大了对媒体造假的二分法理解，即“好”或“坏”。