20 percent feel the media to be misled, as we crisis of confidence to break through

conspiracy theories in the Corona-crisis boom. The mass you commented on in the network and shared. The wildest stories are to be found in the meantime: The Vir

20 percent feel the media to be misled, as we crisis of confidence to break through

conspiracy theories in the Corona-crisis boom. The mass you commented on in the network and shared. The wildest stories are to be found in the meantime: The Virus is an invention of the pharmaceutical industry, and Bill Gates have even a Patent on it and ill people would have to atone for their sins.

But so abstruse, some of these stories may seem, many people believe in the irrational, unscientific views of the world. This is dangerous - for the Individual as for the society. In this world of uncertainty the media and journalists attacks on democracy are exposed to enemy groups. It was verbally or even physically. At the beginning of may, it came about in the case of a non-authorised Demonstration against the Corona restrictions in front of the Reichstag building in Berlin to an attack on a media team.

is: trust in the media seems to falter, even in the crisis. The at least proclaim different factions of conspiracy theorists.

20 percent feel the media deceived

Also, for a recent representative survey by Infratest dimap on behalf of the NDR media magazine ZAPP came at the end of may to the result that at least a part of the society, the media feels cheated. Thus, every fifth person entitled to vote in Germany, "politics and the media exaggerate the danger of the Corona-Virus deliberately, to deceive the Public". Especially many of the AfD supporters are in favour of this deception these (54 percent), as well as people, the Social Media platforms actively use (31 percent).

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But why is it that seemingly more and more people lose Faith in serious reporting and, instead, crude conspiracy theories to believe?

conspiracy theories make the threat more tangible

The psychologist Pia Lamberty has been scientifically with the phenomenon of conspiracy theories and has, together with Katharina Nocun the book, "Fake Facts, such As conspiracy theories, our way of Thinking" is written. She explains that a loss of control, such as the Corona-crisis triggers, befeuere the Belief in conspiracy theories.

"In a Situation where you feel powerless, offer conspiracy narratives a structure," says Pia Lamberty to FOCUS Online. You would thus have the feeling to be able to act again. Psychologically, the have to do something in order to make the threat more tangible. In addition, it has been shown in research that people who have a strong need to believe to be unique, more and more conspiracies. "You mean, to have a kind of secret knowledge and can. thus, on the other," said Lamberty

In the process, conspiracy theories go hand in hand with the rejection of and demarcation of groups that are considered powerful: The government, the scientific community, individuals such as Bill Gates and part of whole social groups, for example – but also the media. You have always been an effective key to the mobilization and recruitment for social protest movements and political parties.

conspiracy theorists have characterized ambivalent relationship to media

the ratio of The conspiracy theorists to media, Lamberty, would at the same time by his special ambivalence. "On the one hand, certain articles of established media are cited, but only if the world in its own image under the walls. As soon as media reports about things with which you don't agree with, is screaming 'lies press'."

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How intense the media should report on conspiracy theories?

"When journalists give conspiracy narratives in detail and almost like adventure stories present, then the power of course something with the reader. We know from the research that the correction of such conspiracy narratives are less liable to remain as the conspiracy narrative itself.“

there Is, also, factually-oriented and evidence-based arguments with conspiracy theories, fails sometimes to the enlightenment. The Fatal it: a one-time contact with conspiracy narratives can have an effect on people, "and so, mistrust occurs and you feel left out of society far."

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The psychologist, therefore, to debate that media have to ask how much they report on the phenomenon. Especially in the case of the protest movements to the conspiracy myths, it is important to make the events bigger than they are.

media trust stable overall, however, there is polarization

Whether the media represent phenomena oversubscribed, "was also a debate in the context of the AfD, but you can see it now, even with the recent reporting of the 'resistance 2020'. This was never a significant group. The claimed to have 100,000 members, and then had to correct later, that there are only about 30 to 50 members. With self-descriptions of these groups one has to be very careful.“ An objective classification is, therefore, important, so Lamberty more. However, it is particularly important to experts and their Knowledge, for example when it comes to medical reporting.

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at the same time, the psychologist looks at journalism in a kind of Dilemma: "the fact that journalism has to be funded, goes much beyond Headings to generate attention for an article that is behind a Paywall." This is not particularly fatal, if the Headline confirms the article or, for example, with leading questions being worked on.

That there is in society a General loss of trust in the media, does not see the psychologist, however. For example, the Mainz "in length would show a time study of the media trust" that the media had been trust in the past years, overall, quite stable, however, the polarization had increased recognizable. While the proportion of people who have great confidence in the media, remains relatively constant, growing at the same time, the proportion of those who have no trust in the media. "This also includes conspiracy includes ideologues," explains the psychologist.

Lamberty power in the light of the current debate about conspiracy theories is clear: conspiracy theories are currently being shown often as a phenomenon of the corona crisis, the problematic phenomenon existing for a long time. "The terrorist acts in the hall and Hanau, the perpetrators have legitimized their Actions with conspiracy stories. The theme was long derided as a phenomenon of the Stupid and the mentally ill, dismissed.“ Now, in the corona of a crisis to realize the consequence of this was that the topic was not taken seriously for many years. Therefore, you do not know, as a society, as with conspiracy theories in a last consequence, to deal.

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Date Of Update: 04 June 2020, 20:27
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