Fonseca, Journal of Communication

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Fake News and Post-Truth

Relationship with Social Networks and Reliability of Content

Abstract

The ICTs and the interconnectivity that they have brought to society have caused social phenomena to spread across the globe at a rate that can only be described as viral. This further limits the time available to society for their understanding, to ponder them and, if necessary, stop them with measures born of social science studies. This article has the modest objective of helping create the critical mass of studies necessary, through a review of the literature, to allow the formation of a basic understanding of the mechanisms that make the post-truth work, the way they work, the factors that make possible its success and, with all the necessary help, the measures that hypothetically can be taken from civil society, the academic world and political power to prevent groups that have been marginalized from democratic life for their values opposed to coexistence, continue to slip through the cracks of the digital information system to impose their agenda and prejudices to society as a whole. To this end, the necessary fact that the dissemination of false or adulterated information is not really new is outlined. And that ICTs have simply given wings to a phenomenon that had been boarded so far by acting on the media and holding them legally responsible for the information they published. In the context of the net, interact simultaneously people from all nations, creating a legal limbo in which, credibly, the body that detects an infraction has no jurisdiction over the suspect.

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Almudena Barrientos-Báez

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Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Doctor with International Mention Cum Laude in Education. Doctoral Assistant at the Complutense University of Madrid. She was Director of the Qualifying Master's Degree in Teacher Training at the European University of Madrid. Master in Management of Protocol, Production, Organization and Design of Events - Communication Area - (Univ. Camilo José Cela) and Master in Management of Tourist Accommodation (Univ. Girona). Degree in Tourism (EUTI-ULL) and Teaching (Univ. Valencia).
Her research work is linked directly and also transversely to Neuromarketing, Neurocommunication, Gender, Use of Social Networks, Communication, PPRR and ICT.
She is part of the project New values, governance, financing and public audiovisual services for the Internet society: European and Spanish contrasts (RTI2018-096065-B-I00) of research of the State Program of R + D + I oriented to the Challenges of the Society of the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (MCIU), State Research Agency (AEI) and European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). IP1 Francisco Campos Freire. IP2 Miguel Túñez López.
She is part of the working group of the Tenerife Island Competitiveness Monitor project: Economic Development and Sustainability (File 069-2020). IP1 Eduardo Parra López.
She is a member of the Research Team: Communication and Education Cabinet. UAB Department of Journalism and Communication Sciences.
Associate Researcher of the research project Ring of Research in Social Sciences and Humanities, code SOC180045, entitled: "Converging Horizons: Production, Mediation, Reception and Effects of Representations of Marginality", according to Res. Afecta No. 025 dated November 22, 2018 and Res. Ex. No. 2000-136. University of La Frontera as main Institution.
She was part of the DEBATv project, Televised Electoral Debates in Spain: Models, Process, Diagnosis and Proposal (CSO2017-83159-R), an R + D + I project (Challenges) funded by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities and the Agency State Research (AEI) of the Government of Spain, with the support of the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) of the European Union (EU). IP1 José Rúas Araújo. IP2 Ana Belén Fernández Souto. (The project ended in December 2020).
She is part of the Concilium Research Group (931,791) of the Complutense University of Madrid where Neuromarketing is one of its main study topics.
She is part of the Article 83 project through the Complutense Concilium Validated Research Group (931.791) of the Complutense University of Madrid: Documentary research on customer loyalty and referencing programs.

David Caldevilla-Domínguez

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Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Bachelor and Doctor of Information Sciences (Audiovisual Communication from the Complutense University). Diploma in Teaching (U. de Zaragoza). Professor at the Faculty of Information Sciences of the UCM. Teacher at: U. Complutense, U. Europea de Madrid, IED, ESERP and IPAM (Oporto -Portugal-). Index h 20. 6th Spanish author in published works in communication area, 13th in cited articles and 20th in citations received from 747 total authors.

 

Speaker and lecturer in various courses and professor in various titles of his own (Telemadrid, Walter & Thompson, McCann ...). Secretary General of the SEECI (Spanish Society for Ibero-American Communication Studies), Historia de los Sistemas Informativos and of the "International Forum of Communication and Public Relations" (Forum XXI).

Principal Investigator (IP) of the Complutense Research Group ‘Concilium’. Author of more than 90 scientific articles and 6 books: Asturias and La Rioja, a common history, Spielberg's seal, Culture and Public Relations, Public Relations Manual, Public Relations and its foundation and the internal face of business communication. Director of 7 doctoral theses (2 with European mention).

Member of scientific committees in numerous congresses and International Scientific Journals. Speaker at more than 90 International Conferences. Invited signature in various publications and radio talk show.

Lyudmyla Yezers´ka

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Universidad de Piura

Doctor in Public Communication from the University of Navarra, Electronics Engineer from the Polytechnic University of Kiev (Ukraine).

Professor of Journalistic and Advertising Design at the Faculty of Communication of the University of Piura (Peru) and Editor of the Communication Magazine (Q2). His lines of research focus on the impact of digital technology on the media and journalism.

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