Aktiviteter

Jeg er på forældreorlov fra 22. april 2024.
Er tilbage d. 19. august (2024) – denne gang i stillingen som tenure-track adjunkt i medievidenskab.

Kommende begivenheder:

Konferencepræsentation: Farkas, J. & Xia, Y. (2024). ‘The ‘Troll’ Metaphor and its Problems’. ECREA ECC 2024. Ljubljana, Slovenia. 24-27 September 2024.

Konferencepræsentation:  Farkas, J. (2024). ‘The Rhetorical Construction of Factchecking as a Democratic Practice’. NKRF9 (Nordisk Konference for Retorikforskning). København, Danmark. 9.-11. oktober 2024.

Inviterede forelæsninger

‘Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy,’  Avignon Universitet, Institut for Politik, Økonomi og Socialvidenskab. 23. februar 2024.

‘Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy,’  Stora PR-dagen 2024, Stockholm, Sverige. 1. februar 2024.

‘Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy,’ Politics Week 2024. Institut for Statskundskab, Syddansk Universitet. 29. januar 2023

‘Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy,’ Lund Universitet, Institut for Medier og Kommunikation,. 15. december 2023.

‘Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy,’ Aarhus Universitet, Institut for Kommunikation og Kultur. 6. december 2023.

‘Fake News og Journalistik,’ Roskilde Universitet, Roskilde, Danmark. 12. december 2022.

Fake News, Journalism, and the Democratic Paradox,’ Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sverige. 7. december 2022.

‘Diskursteori og kritisk desinformations-analyse,’ Københavns Universitet, Institut for Kommunikation, København, Danmark, 6. oktober 2022.

‘The Truth Alone Will Not Save the Democracies,’ Biblioteken i Kungsbacka, Kungsbacka, Sverige. 22 September 2022.

‘Media Discourses on Fake News and their Limits’, The Finnish Conference for Media and Communication (MEVI2022). Turku, Finland, 23. april 2022.

‘Post-Truth Discourses and Anti-Democratic Measures’, Danish Institute for Parties and Democracy. København, Danmark, 11. november 2021.

‘Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy: A Critical Examination’, The University of Antwerp (digital forelæsning). Antwerp, Belgien, 5. marts 2021.

‘We Try to Avoid Fake News’: Examining Journalistic Reflections on Fake News Coverage. International Symposium. Journalism, Media and the Normalization of (Right-Wing) Populism and Nativist Authoritarianism: Analysis of Practices and Counteracting Strategies before and during the COVID-19. Organised by Gothenburg University and Uppsala University. 5. februar 2021.

‘Disguised Propaganda, Fake News and Democracy’, Fojos Faktajouren, Linnéuniversitetet, Kalmar, Sweden. 11. november 2020.

‘Sluta jaga sanningen på bekostnad av demokratin’. Sanning, lögn och språk, Värmland läser, Karlstad, Sverige. 8. september 2020.

‘Online Disinformation and Post-Truth Discourses’. Syddansk Universitet, Institut for Kulturvidenskaber, Odense, Danmark, 30. april 2020.

‘Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy: A Critical Examination’, Kulturdepartementet (det svenske Kulturministerium) , Stockholm, Sweden, 12. februar 2020.

‘Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy: A Critical Examination’, Lund Universitet, Symposium on Social Information and Hybrid Power: A Strategic Platform for Political Communication, Helsingborg, Sverige, 13. december 2019.

‘Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy: A Critical Examination’, Södertörn Universitet, School of Culture and Education. Stockholm, Sverige, 6. december 2019.

‘Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy: A Critical Examination’, Goto10, Internetstiftelsen. Stockholm, Sverige, 5. december 2019.

’Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy: A Critical Examination’, Temple University, Klein College of Media and Communication. Philadelphia, PA, USA, 24. oktober 2019

’Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy: A Critical Examination’, Rutgers University, Department of Communication. New Brunswick, USA, 23. oktober 2019.

‘Disguised Propaganda, Fake News and Democracy’, University of Pennsylvania, Annenberg School for Communication, Center on Digital Culture and Society. Philadelphia, PA, USA, 22. oktober 2019.

’Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy: A Critical Examination’, Brown University, Watson Institute, Brown Journal of World Affairs. Providence, USA, 21. oktober 2019.

‘Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy: A Critical Examination’, Fordham University, McGannon Center. New York City, USA, 18. oktober 2019.

‘Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy: A Critical Examination’, Syracuse University, School of Information Studies. Syracuse, USA, 25. september 2019.

‘Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy: A Critical Examination’, Cornell University, Department of Information Science. Ithaca, USA, 12. september 2019.

‘Truslen fra desinformation i Danmark’, Altinget. København, Danmark, 3. juni 2019.

‘Disguised propaganda on social media’. Göteborg Universitet, Brännpunkt Europa. Göteborg, Sverige, 22. januar 2019.

‘Disguised propaganda in the digital era’, Deep Cuts #1: Copy/Truth Fake/Original, OBRA Gallery. Malmö, Sverige, 19. november 2018.

‘Hitting the wall: How social media companies inhibit the struggle against political deception’, Göteborg Universitet,, Centrum för Europaforskning. Göteborg, Sverige, 12. oktober 2018.

‘Disguised Propaganda on Social Media: Addressing Democratic Dangers and Solutions’, Göteborg Universitet, Department of Journalism, Media and Communication (JMG). Göteborg, Sverige, 12. oktober 2018.

‘Fake News Literacy? Understanding the potentials and challenges of spotting, classifying and contesting ‘fake news’, TechFestival 2018. København, Danmark, 5. september 2018.

Forskningsophold

Aalborg University
Department of Communication and Psychology
September 2020 – January 2021
Hosted by Associate Professor Bolette Blaagaard

Cornell University
Department of Information Science
September-October 2019
Vært: Professor Steven J. Jackson

Konferencepræsentationer (fagfællebedømt)

Farkas, J. (2023). Making Democracy More Truthful? Examining the Construction of Credibility Among Fact-Checkers in Hungary, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, ICA 2023 Pre-conference, The Global Fact-Checking Movement: Regional, Comparative, Organizational, and Institutional Perspectives, Toronto, Canada. 24 May 2023.

Bengtsson, M., Schousboe, S. & Farkas, J. (2023).  Ontological and epistemological foundations of fact-checking: A reading of fact-checkers’ policy documents. ICA 2023 Pre-conference, The Global Fact-Checking Movement: Regional, Comparative, Organizational, and Institutional Perspectives, Toronto, Canada. 24 May 2023.

Farkas, J. (2023). ‘We Return to the Old Virtues:” Exploring Tensions in Imaginaries around Fake News and Journalism, Media Imaginaries 2023. Lund University, Lund, Sweden. 16 March 2023.

Farkas, J. (2022). Fake News and Metajournalistic Discourse: “There is Now Work for Us to Do Again”. Democracy & Digital Citizenship Conference, Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark, 29 September 2022.

Bastos, M. & Farkas, J. (2019). “Donald Trump is my President!” The Internet Research Agency Propaganda Machine. 69th Annual International Communication Association (ICA) Conference: Communication Beyond Boundaries, Washington DC, USA, 24 – 28 May 2019.

Farkas, J. & Matamoros Fernández, A. (2019). Racism on Social Media: A Critical Review of Methodological Challenges. Critical Digital and Social Media Research Conference, Umeå, Sweden, 6– 8 March 2019.

Farkas, J. & Bastos, M. (2018b). State propaganda in the age of social media: Examining strategies of the Internet Research Agency. 7th European Communication Conference (ECC, ECREA), Lugano, Switzerland, 31 October – 3 November 2018.

Farkas, J. & Matamoros Fernandez, A. (2018). The implications of social media disinformation in reproducing systemic forms of oppression like racism. Locked out of Social Platforms: An iCS Symposium on Challenges to Studying Disinformation, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 27-28 October 2018.

Farkas, J. & Bastos, M. (2018b). State propaganda in the age of social media: Examining strategies of the Internet Research Agency. 7th European Communication Conference (ECC, ECREA), Lugano, Switzerland, 31 October – 3 November 2018.

Farkas, J. & Matamoros Fernandez, A. (2018). The implications of social media disinformation in reproducing systemic forms of oppression like racism. Locked out of Social Platforms: An iCS Symposium on Challenges to Studying Disinformation, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 27-28 October 2018.

Farkas, J. & Bastos, M. (2018a). IRA Propaganda on Twitter: Stoking Antagonism and Tweeting Local News. 9th Annual International Conference on Social Media and Society, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark,18-20 July 2018.

Farkas, J. (2018b). Multi-sited online ethnography and critical discourse studies: Exploring disguised propaganda on social media. 7th Biannual Conference on Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines, Aalborg University, Denmark, 4-6 July 2018.

Farkas, J. (2018a). Fact-based democracy or agonistic pluralism? A critical examination of the idea of a post-truth era. Media Freedom Symposium, Lund University, Sweden, 15 March 2018.

Farkas, J. & Neumayer, C.  (2017). Clickbait Propaganda: How Far-right Readers’ Letters Became Headline News in Social Media. AoIR 2017: Networked Publics,, University of Tartu, Estonia, 18-21 Oct 2017.

Farkas, J. (2017) Disguised as News: Exploring Fear-mongering Online Commentaries Camouflaged as Journalism. Media and Fear – International Symposium, Lund University, Sweden, 16 March 2017.

Farkas, J. & Schou, J. (2016). Cloaked Facebook Pages and Xenophobic Propaganda: Exploring the Computational Architecture of Fake-Information. AoIR 2016 – Internet Rules!, Humbold-Universität zu Berlin, Germany, 5-8 October 2016.

Schou, J. & Farkas, J. (2015b). Inside or in sight? Cloaking Strategies of Political Activists on Facebook. Spaces and tactics of politics: Transnational connections, neoliberalisation and the reshaping of civil society, University of Turku, Finland, 11-12 December 2015.

Schou, J. & Farkas, J. (2015a). Disguised as Islamists: Cloaked Facebook Pages and Danish Right-wing Groups. ECREA Communication and Democracy Conference 2015: Political Agency in the Digital Age: Media, Participation and Democracy. Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, 9-10 October 2015.

Farkas, J. & Hjelholt, M. (2015). Moderating Participation: Utilizing Social Network Sites in the 2015 Danish Election, ECREA Political Communication Conference 2015: Changing political communication, changing Europe?, University of Southern Denmark, 27-28 August 2015.

Farkas, J., Schou, J. & Hjelholt, M. (2015). The Historical Shaping of Public Service Television and Digitalization. NordMedia 2015: Media Presence – Mobile Modernities, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 13-15 August 2015.

Schou, J. & Farkas, J. (2015). “Take Action Now and Share This”: Mapping the Micro-dynamics of Political Participation through Facebook. NordMedia 2015: Media Presence – Mobile Modernities, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 13-15 August 2015.

Farkas, J., Schou, J. & Klastrup, L. (2015). Riding the Algorithms? Exploring the Socio-material Practices and Tactics of Mundane Danish Activists on Facebook. Protest Participation in Variable Communication Ecologies, Alghero University, Italy, 24-26 June 2015.

Andre aktiviteter

Talk, ‘Tech-giganternes trussel mod det monitorerende demokrati’, Magtudredningen 2.0, Odense, Denmark. 13 March 2024.

Paneldeltager, ‘Malmö snackar’, Panel om desinformation og democracy, Malmö. 13. marts 2024.

Gæsteforelæsning, ‘Digital Media, Journalism, Disinformation, and Democracy’, Sektion for Medievidenskab, Institut for Kommunikation, Københavns Universitet. 28.  januar 2024.

Bogreception: Post-Truth, Fake News, and Democracy (2nd Edition), Institut for Kommunikation, Københavns Universitet. 26.  januar 2024.

Medarrangør, Digital Methods in Social Media Research: A Workshop on Potentials and Limitations. Københavns Universitet, Institut for Kommunikation. 5. december 2023.

Paneldeltager, En ifrågasatt demokrati. Konference. Linnaeus University. 15. november 2023.

Ph.d.-forsvar, Malmö Universitet, Malmö, Sverige. 2. juni 2023.

Ekspert-deltager, The Cognitive Intrusions Opening Symposium, European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats, Helsinki, Finland. 9. marts 2023.

Afsluttende PhD Seminar (i,e, ‘pre-defence’), Malmö University, Opponent: Associate Professor Eva Mayerhöffer, October 2022.

Deltager, ‘Master class with Professor Zizi Papacharissi: Affective publics and social connection in the digital age,’ Roskilde University, Roskilde, april 2022.

Oplægsholder, ’Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy: A Critical Examination’, Malmö Universitet, Malmö Universitets Bibliotek. Malmö, Sweden, oktober 2019.

50% PhD Seminar, Malmö University, Opponent: Docent Aske Kammer, Malmö, Sweden, oktober 2020.

Forelæser og paneldeltager, TRAIN Conference, Online pga. COVID-19, august 2020.

Deltager, Copenhagen Democracy Summit 2020, Online pga. COVID-19, juni 2020.

Paneldeltager, paneldebat om ‘Post-Truth, Fake News, and Democracy’ på Goto10, Stockholm, Sverige, februar 2020.

Ekspert-deltager, Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. Berlin, Tyskland, november 2019.

Foredragsholder, bogforedrag + reception, Malmö Universitet, School of Arts and Communication. Malmö, Sverige, november 2019.

Deltager, Academic Information Expert Pool Meeting, Hybrid CoE – The European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats, To-dags seminar, Helsinki, Finland, november 2019.

Medarrangør, Workshop on threats, doxing and online harassment against media scholars and media professionals, Nordmedia, Malmö Universitet, august 2019.

Deltager, Copenhagen Democracy Summit 2019, Skuespilhuset, København. juni 2019.

Deltager, Datafication, Digital Inequalities and Data Justice, Netværks-konference i København, Juni 2019.

Paneldeltager, TRAIN Conference, Örebro, April 2019.,

Deltager, Netværksmøde om risikoen for udenlandsk påvirkning af det danske folketingsvalg, Udenrigsministeriet, Marts 2019.

Panel-debattør, Keynote by Professor Jay David Bolter, Augmented and Virtual Reality-enhancing our understanding of cultural heritage, Malmö University, November 2018,

Ordstyrer, Panel on discursive struggles in national and European media, 7th European Communication Conference (ECC), Lugano, Switzerland, October 2018.

Medarrangør, Three Young Scholar Workshops: Methods, Writing and Activism, Pre-conference event to the 7th European Communication Conference (ECC) in Lugano, Switzerland, October 2018.

Deltager, Cph150 – a two-day think tank, TechFestival, Copenhagen, 7-8 September 2018.

Deltager, Datafication, Digital Inequalities and Data Justice, Workshop at Tampere University, Finland, August 2018.

Forfatter, Research exhibition, Förnuft eller känsla? Fakta, forskning och föreställningar, Malmö University Library, April-October 2018.

Paneldeltager, Keynote by Professor Pille Pruulmann Vengerfeldt, Digital parenting: How social media helps push the boundaries of being normal, Malmö University, April 2018.

Forelæser og paneldeltager, TRAIN Conference, Kristinehamn, April 2018.

Ordstyrer, Panel om civic engagement and civic experiences in datafied societies, Digital Democracy: Critical Perspectives in the Age of Big Data, ECREA Communication and Democracy conference, Stockholm, November 2017.

Ordstyrer, Panel on digital activism, Digital Democracy: Critical Perspectives in the Age of Big Data, ECREA Communication and Democracy conference, Stockholm, November 2017.

Medarrangør, Open Lecture on Racist Propaganda in the Digital Age, IT University of Copenhagen, May 2017.

Medarrangør, Conference on Digital Social Inclusion, IT University of Copenhagen, April 2017.

Medlems- og repræsentantskab

Ekspertmedlem af The European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats (Hybrid CoE). 2019—

PhD-koordinator, School of Arts and Communication, Malmö University. 2022—2023

Formand for Young Scholars Network of the European Communication Research and Education Association (YECREA) – 2018-2021.

Medlem af Datafication, Digital Inequalities and Data Injustice (nordisk forskningsnetværk) – 2018-2021.

Medlem af Udenrigsministeriets Netværk om Desinformation – 2019-2021.

Ph.d.-repræsentant i Vejledningskollegiet, Institut for kunst, kultur og kommunikation. Malmö Universitet – 2018 – 2019.

Medlem af Föreningen för svensk medie- och kommunikationsforskning (FSMK) – siden januar 2018.

YECREA repræsentant i Communication and Democracy-sektionen af European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) – 2017-2018.

Medlem af Democracy and Citizenship in Digital Society (DECIDIS), strategisk forskningsinitiativ på IT-Universitetet i København – 2016 – 2018.

Fagfællebedømmelse

Jeg har fagfællebedømt publikationer i følgende akademiske tidsskrifter (i alfabetisk rækkefølge):
Big Data & Society
Canadian Journal of Communication
Convergence
Contemporary Political Theory
Cooperation and Conflict
Diffractions
Digital Culture and Education
Emotion, Space and Society
European Journal of Communication
First Monday
Globalizations
Globalisation, Societies and Education
Global Policy
Human Communication Research
Journalism
Journalism Studies
Journal of Communication
Journal of Contemporary European Studies
Journal of Language and Politics
Media, Culture & Society
MedieKultur
New Media & Society
Nordic Journal of Media Studies
Nordicom Review
Politica
Political Communication
Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy
Theory, Culture & Society
The Communication Review

Legater

Rejselegat, 2018 – 58 000 SEK, Reidar Peters Internationaliseringsfond

Rejselegat, 2018 – 2000 SEK, Swedish Association for Media and Communication Research (FSMK)

Rejselegat, 2018 – 1000 DKK, Carlsberg Foundation

Rejselegat, 2015 – 2000 DKK, IT University of Copenhagen, August 2015

Rejselegat, 2011 – 20 000 DKK, Erasmus+