Contemporary societies are suffering, in many cases, processes of political polarization accompanied by other elements that are equally worrying for the democracies. The increasing presence of demagogic discourse in the political arena only hinders the proper functioning of institutions. Polarization, populism and demagogy are elements that work in...
The research is focused on the emerging practices of digital photojournalism in war contexts, in relation to the use of usergenerated content from social networks. The focal point is the coverage of the Russo-Ukrainian conflict by the two main online newspapers of the belligerent countries: Ukrayinska Pravda and Rossiyskaya Gazeta. From the analysi...
This article focuses on journalistic activities in the context of the first wave of Covid-19, in 2020, when ahigh presence of post-truth and fake news was identified in news production, which is justified in addressing these two conceptual objects. The objective was to understand how problems in the production process, suchas job insecurity during ...
This article addresses some specific phenomena in the field of digital communication, namely disinformation, infodemics and conspir-acy mania; these phenomena make it difficult for people to distinguish between truth and lies, fact and fiction, opinion and knowledge, and in the long run create indifference to the distinction itself. These issues ha...
The use of socio-digital networks in electoral processes has grown significantly in recent years, with the pandemic they have become the most reliable means for voters to find out about what ́s happening. However, they are the most widely used means of spreading rumors, disqualifications, lies, attacks and negative campaigns. This article explains ...
While there has always been discourse seeking to discredit feminism and its proposals using false arguments, as the movement has gained ground, the effort to discredit it has increased. Based on cases reported by the media websites Maldita.es, in its section Maldito Femi-nismo, Newtral.es and Efe Verifica, we point out the important presence of ant...
In recent years we have witnessed the release of documentaries such as World War II in Color, (Jonathan Martin, 2009), They Shall Not Grow Old(Peter Jackson, 2018) or España en dos trincheras. La Guerra Civil en colores(Francesc Escribano, Lluís Carrizo, 2016), characterized by the colorization of filmic materials originally recorded in black and w...
The term “post-truth” has gained traction in the past few years, thanks to a contentious technological context, the spread of fake news, and the distortion of truth on the internet.The concept gained notoriety in 2016, when Oxford Dictionaries chose it as their word of the year, referring to “post-truth” as an adjective “relating to or denoting cir...
This short essay questions the common belief that the technical revolution brought by digital communications increases the proliferation of verified information and facilitates informed decision-making at the time of choosing between alternative electoral proposals. Common phenomena on social platforms and media today, such as disinformation or the...
On the internet, fake news is easily accessed and shared, negatively influencing the population. In order to avoid them, it is necessary to understand what they are, how they are constituted and how they can be unmasked. Science education is potentially indicated to contribute to a critical education of the population that is necessary to prevent t...
