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The journalistic account of the bombing of the city of Guernica. Before the Second World War (1937).
The journalistic account of the bombing of the city of Guernica. Before the Second World War (1937).
Welcome everyone,
We begin the activities related to the Past Continuous project. As you already know, this is a project that uses recent history as a tool to work on disinformation.
As you’ll see in the sequence of the three activities you’ll carry out, we’ll be working on the concept of fake news. You already know that nowadays we live surrounded by manipulation and falsehoods. Are you excited to discover what we’ve prepared?
In this first activity, we’ll explore the journalistic account of the bombing of the city of Guernica. Could you tell me what historical period it belongs to? The bombing was a media event that occurred on April 26, 1937, in the context of the Spanish Civil War. There are many fabrications surrounding this event — shall we uncover them?
The activity will be carried out in three phases. In each one, you’ll find reference material and working material to complete the different tasks we’ve prepared for you. Ready to begin this sequence of activities?
ACTIVITY 3.0. CONTEXT
ACTIVITY 3.0. CONTEXT
To start, you can click on this document where you’ll find the historical context of the activity.
ACTIVITY 3. PHASE 1. INTRODUCTION KM0
ACTIVITY 3. PHASE 1. INTRODUCTION KM0
After this brief introduction, let’s move on to the next question: Do you think an image can deceive us even without being manipulated? Can simply changing the text or context alter the meaning of the image?
To explore this, we invite you to read the content of the first step of the activity: Introduction - PHASE 1.
ACTIVITY 3. PHASE 2. DEVELOPMENT
ACTIVITY 3. PHASE 2. DEVELOPMENT
After this first step that introduced us to the activity, consult the document for PHASE 2. This worksheet will serve as a protocol for conducting an analysis.
ACTIVITY 3. PHASE 3. CLOSURE
ACTIVITY 3. PHASE 3. CLOSURE
To finish and close this first activity, we suggest downloading this content, which we’ve called PHASE 3, where we’ll focus on analyzing two photographs to see if you can detect the deception. One shows a bombing, and the other a fire. Can you tell which is which? What differences do you find? What similarities?
To learn more! We suggest you click on the following link:
Gernika, 80 years after the bombing
There you’ll see how different parts of the city of Guernica looked after being rebuilt following the bombing.
To conclude, a reflection: Do you think this kind of fake news is still present today? Look at the following image and think about it.
This photograph represents the bombing in the Ukrainian city of Lviv. Although the spokesperson for the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mariya Zakharova, claims that Russia is not bombing cities in Ukraine and that the images proving it are manipulated videos by NATO countries, these images — along with others — appear on the investigative platform Bellingcat, which documents attacks on civilians.
How can we know that the image is not manipulated or that it truly represents a town in Ukraine?
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