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Deepfake: An Emerging New Media Object in the Age of Online Content

Hsiang, Emily LU (2020) KOVM12 20201
Division of Art History and Visual Studies
Abstract
This thesis aims to understand the phenomenon of deepfake as new media objects and how deepfake content circulate and are consumed online. Deepfake is a newly emerging technology that face swaps targeted individual faces in existing media using machine learning. To document and recognize deepfake in the field of media studies, this thesis attempts to translate the technicality deepfake technology through the perspective of media studies.
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This thesis aims to understand the phenomenon of deepfake as new media objects and how deepfake content circulate and are consumed online by documenting deepfake in the field of media studies.
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author
Hsiang, Emily LU
supervisor
organization
course
KOVM12 20201
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
deepfake, new media, medium, machine learning, face swap, fake news
language
English
id
9014787
date added to LUP
2020-09-14 08:17:59
date last changed
2020-09-14 08:17:59
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  abstract     = {{This thesis aims to understand the phenomenon of deepfake as new media objects and how deepfake content circulate and are consumed online. Deepfake is a newly emerging technology that face swaps targeted individual faces in existing media using machine learning. To document and recognize deepfake in the field of media studies, this thesis attempts to translate the technicality deepfake technology through the perspective of media studies.}},
  author       = {{Hsiang, Emily}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Deepfake: An Emerging New Media Object in the Age of Online Content}},
  year         = {{2020}},
}