Johan Farkas

Johan Farkas

Postdoc

ORCID: 0000-0003-2272-7174

I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Communication. Here, I am part of the project ‘Tell Me the Truth: Fact-Checkers in an Age of Epistemic Instability' funded by the Carlsberg Foundation.

My research explores the intersection of digital media, journalism, disinformation, and democracy. I have published on these issues in journals such as New Media & Society, Journalism Studies, Social Media + Society, Television & New Media and Critical Discourse Studies.

In June 2023, I succesfully defended my PhD thesis: This Is Not Real News: Discursive Struggles over Fake News, Journalism, and Democracy.

My debut book, written with Jannick Schou, was published by Routledge in 2019. It presents a critical examination of discourses around fake news and the so-called post-truth era. The book is entitled Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy: Mapping the Politics of Falsehood.

In the past, I have been a Visiting Researcher at Cornell University, Chair of the Young Scholars Network of the European Communication Research and Education Association (YECREA), and a speaker at institutions such as the Council of Europe, the Swedish Ministry of Culture, and the European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats.

Selected publications

  1. This Is Not Real News: Discursive Struggles over Fake News, Journalism, and Democracy

    Farkas, Johan, 2023, Malmö University Press. 223 p.

    Research output: Book/Report › Ph.D. thesis › Research

  2. Published

    Fake News in Metajournalistic Discourse

    Farkas, Johan, 2023, In: Journalism Studies. 24, 4, p. 423-441 19 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  3. Published

    Racism, Hate Speech, and Social Media: A Systematic Review and Critique

    Matamoros-Fernández, A. & Farkas, Johan, 22 Jan 2021, In: Television & New Media. 22, 2, p. 205–224

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  4. Published

    Unpacking disinformation as social media discourse

    Farkas, Johan & Xia, Y., 2023, Social Media and Society: Integrating the digital with the social in digital discourse. KhosraviNik, M. (ed.). John Benjamins Publishing Company, p. 107–126 20 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

  5. Published

    Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy: Mapping the Politics of Falsehood

    Farkas, Johan & Schou, J., 23 Aug 2019, London: Routledge. 166 p.

    Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research › peer-review

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