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Workshop Mjuni. Zpívat, informovat, manipulovat. Jak se v minulosti šířily zprávy a fake news prostřednictvím kramářských písní a co si z toho můžeme vzít pro dnešní dobu
| Title in English | Singing, informing, manipulating. How news and fake news were spread in the past through broadside ballads — and what we can take from this for today |
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| Year of publication | 2025 |
| Type | Popularization text |
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| Description | They spread across the whole of Europe — and even reached China and the Americas. In northern Brazil, Peru, or Mexico they are still sung today, for example at gas stations or in praise of drug lords. Although the Czech ones are two to four hundred years old, they tell us a great deal about how people in the past were informed, entertained, and how public opinion was manipulated. Do you know how a lost battle can be sold as a great victory? How to explain climate change, disasters, and epidemics? How to rein in potential rebels? And couldn’t there still be some profit to be made from it? |
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