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Disinformation, Radicalisation and Other Information Disorders: Lessons Learnt for Media and Information Literacy
- Author
- Divina Frau-Meigs
- Year
- 2019
- Publisher
- Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
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- Abstract
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Fake news’, radicalisation, disinformation, hate speech…
These phenomena have caught politicians and public opinion off guard and have led to democratic ‘accidents‘, such as
the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack (2015) and the Cambridge
Analytica scandal (2018), that called into question the role of
the Internet and social media in democratic societies, as lives
had been taken violently and elections had been tampered
with. The dominant paradigm up until then had been the
vision of the ‘Information Society‘, which had its inception with
the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) that lasted
from 2003 to 2005 with yearly meetings in the UN in Geneva.
In the wake of a new international framework towards building
‘Knowledge Societies’ – as defined by UNESCO and civil society
actors during and after WSIS – worldwide initiatives were
taken, such as the Alexandria Proclamation on Information
Literacy and Lifelong Learning (2005), the Paris Agenda for
Media Education (2007) and the Fez Declaration on Media
and Information Literacy (2011), that promoted MIL for the
first time.
- Language
- ENGLISH