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News Literacy. Literacies to Tackle the New Information Dissorder
- Author
- Picone, Ike; Opgenhaffen, Michaël
- Year
- 2025
- Publisher
- Empowering the Digital Citizen. Digital and Media Literacy Research in Flanders, Belgium
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- Abstract
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In the course of the 2010s, the increasing circulation of disinformation through online
channels led to concerns being raised amongst academics and media experts about the
information disorder: the complex interplay of disinformation, misinformation and
malinformation at a very large scale enabled by digital distribution technologies (Wardle &
Derakshan, 2017). The realisation that false information could affect democratic processes
such as elections (Brexit, US 2016 Presidential Election, …) and decrease trust in the
democratic institutions, or could be weaponised to extremely polarise public debate (Covid19, Alt-Right…) led to the European Union prioritising the fight against disinformation. The
European Union set up a variety of pioneering initiatives, ranging from collaborative
research projects to improve the detection of disinformation to increased support for
investigative journalism. However, two key responses to tackle disinformation stand
out: fact-checking and news literacy (Frau-Meigs, 2022). - Language
- ENGLISH