Desinformação Digital em Rede e Competência Crítica em Informação

Abstract

The contemporary notion of disinformation bears some resemblance to the Augustinian concept of lying, as it carries with it the intention to deceive. Today, as in the past, several forms of deliberate deception reinforce illusions and prejudices, given that human cognition is deceptive. The novelty is the social impact resulting from the immense capacity for capturing, processing and circulating data of current sociotechnical mediations of information, which operate on the big data scale and whose reach, speed and capillarity make digital network disinformation an unprecedented and alarming phenomenon. The promotion of critical information literacy, which involves the maturation of critical sense, appears as a crucial means to mitigate the problem.