Information Disorders: Risks and Opportunities for Digital Media and Information Literacy

Author

Divina Frau-Meigs

Year

2019

Publisher

EDIJSKE STUDIJE, MEDIA STUDIES

DOI/Link

10.20901/ms.10.19.1

Abstract

This paper analyses the major modifications created by the “social turn” i.e. the emergence
of social media. It presents the drastic change of ecosystem created by the three “continents” of the
Internet. This sets up the context of deployment for “information disorders” such as radicalisation and
disinformation. The analysis then considers the risks and opportunities for Media and Information
Literacy: on the one hand, the rise of fact-checking and the increasing interference of social media
platforms; on the other hand, the augmentation of the Media and Information Literacy epistemology and
the Media and Information Literacy paradigm shift entailed by information disorders. It concludes on an
agenda for Media and Information Literacy in 21st century

Keywords

Information Literacy, Media and Information Literacy

Media and Information Literacy Repository – South Asia

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