In this episode of the Journalistica podcast, host Lene Heiselberg interviews Johan Farkas, a postdoc at the University of Copenhagen. Farkas is a critical media scholar interested in the intersection of digital media, democracy, disinformation, and journalism.
The discussion centers around Farkas' research on discourse analysis, specifically critical discourse analysis and discourse theory, and its application to studying the concept of fake news. He explains that discourse analysis allows researchers to analyze and critically engage with the political aspects of fake news, examining how different actors, including politicians and journalists, use the term to legitimize certain forms of politics and media.
The podcast was edited by Julienne C. Raboca