Draft - Thesis outline Irma

Isn't the alternative truth all we have?

A research on the cause and effect of storytelling

Note, I'm researching the idea to structure my thesis in a magazine structure, you could think of fictional interviews, small essays, film review, comic, etc.

Introduction

I want my thesis to be about the cause and effect of storytelling, the rhetoric's behind the manipulation in the mass media in comparison with social media. What has changed and what is and the effect it has on the interpretation of the truth. Telling the truth is generally appreciated, but couldn't you say that the truth is always subjective interpretation? That therefore there would always exist an alternative version of my interpretation of truth?

Media Communication VS Social Media Communication

Research on the path and course of the expectation of the alternative truth.

• News- The war on facts
• Trump VS Press
• Noam Chomsky VS Press
• Propaganda VS Public Relations/The job of a Spindoctor

Rhetoric's (could be boring?)

• Socrates
• Aristotle

Representing a persona

The freedom/duty of representing yourself I'm online therefore I am

• Rachel Dolezal - a white woman pretending to be black.
• Social media -
• Jacques Lacan - mirror stage
• Socrates

The power of the Storyteller - fictional conversation about the storytelling techniques

• Charlie Kaufman VS Edward Bernays
• Maybe Patricia Highsmith, Hitchcock

What makes a reliable big other to follow?

Maybe this is the strange duck in my research, although I think this is a relevant theme within my practice.

• "The Big Other doesn't exist" - Slavoj Zizek

Truth in Neuroscience? Truth is in the eyes of the beholder?

How reliable is a human brain? Could you trust what you see is the truth? I think the brain has a very important role in the interpretation of information I'm fascinated to explore this knowledge of "system" thinking, the common cognitive biases and roles of the different parts of the brain

• We are our brain - Dr Swaab
• Wired for Story telling - Lisa Cron
• Thinking fast and slow - Daniel Kahneman

Analysing artist that play with manipulation

• The YESmen
• Floris Kaayk

Bibliography

• "The Big Other doesn't exist" - Slavoj Zizek
• Jacques Lacan - mirror stage
• MANUFACTURING CONSENT The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky (1988)
• Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky And The Media-The Companion Book To The Award-Winning Film by Peter Wintonick and Mark Achbar (1994)
• The Propaganda Model: a retrospective by Edward S. Herman
• The Century of the Self -Adam Curtis

• We are our brain - Dr Swaab
• Wired for Story telling - Lisa Cron
• Thinking fast and slow - Daniel Kahneman
• Plotting and Writing suspense fiction - Patrica Highsmith