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Accepted Paper
Nature is coming back: dolphins and dinosaurs. – from fake news and doomsday imaginations to humour
Eda Kalmre
(Estonian Literary Museum)
Paper short abstract
The report follows the story of the media in the first months of corona quarantine, which started with a fake news, how the reduction of pollution caused by quarantine has a positive effect on the environment and nature is recovering.
Paper long abstract
To what extent is the ability to tell a true story in a picture? What is the relationship between context and rhetoric in this case?
The question of economic prosperity versus a sustainable natural environment was already highly relevant in the world before the pandemic broke out. This is how the return of swans and dolphins to the canals of Venice, which had previously suffered from a flood of tourists, was very promising with pictures of slippery news. It immediately became viral.
The report follows the story of the media in the first months of corona quarantine, which started with a fake news, how the reduction of pollution caused by quarantine has a positive effect on the environment and nature is recovering.