Johan Farkas
Postdoc
Department of Communication
Karen Blixens Plads 8
2300 København S
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, and Critical Discourse Studies
The second edition of my monograph, Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy: Mapping the Politics of Falsehood, was published by Routledge in December 2023. Written with Jannick Schou, the book presents a critical examination of discourses around fake news and the so-called post-truth era.
In June 2023, I succesfully defended my PhD thesis: This Is Not Real News: Discursive Struggles over Fake News, Journalism, and Democracy.
I am currently part of the project ‘Tell Me the Truth: Fact-Checkers in an Age of Epistemic Instability' funded by the Carlsberg Foundation.
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
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
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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 › peer-review
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Racism, Hate Speech, and Social Media: A Systematic Review and Critique
Matamoros-Fernández, A. & Farkas, Johan, 2021, In: Television & New Media. 22, 2, p. 205–224 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review
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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
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Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy: Mapping the Politics of Falsehood
Farkas, Johan & Schou, J., 2023, 2 ed. London & New York: Routledge. 218 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
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A survey of expert views on misinformation: Definitions, determinants, solutions, and future of the field
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Fake News in Metajournalistic Discourse
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Racism, Hate Speech, and Social Media: A Systematic Review and Critique
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review
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