Full Description
Disinformation Debunked: Building Resilience through Media and Information Literacy examines the way media and information literacy (MIL) can address disinformation in conjunction with fact-checkers and developers, to benefit from the expertise of these fields in fighting disinformation.
The book highlights the underlying stakes that are involved in the fight against disinformation, from producing smart tools to generalizing their use beyond the journalistic profession. It considers the MIL theories and methodologies at work in the digital era, especially from the perspective of digital visual literacy. Offering a comparative study of four European national experiences (France, Romania, Spain, and Sweden), the authors also make public policy recommendations to improve the fight against disinformation.
This book is of great importance to students, scholars, and educators working on media and information literacy, digital media, journalism, mass communication, misinformation and disinformation.
Contents
Introduction
Section 1. Fighting disinformation from a theoretical perspective. Designing Projects YouCheck! and YouVerify!
1. The state-of-the-art in combating mis- and disinformation: Lessons from pre- and debunking approaches
2. The Political Economy of Fact-Checking: From Hope to Reality Check
3. MIL theories and the fight against disinformation in practice: projects YouCheck! and YouVerify!
Section 2. Fighting disinformation from a practical perspective. Results of projects YouCheck! and YouVerify!
4. Using tools to fight disinformation in and outside the classrooms: Evidence from four countries
5. Scaling up the fight against disinformation: the MOOC "Disinformation Step by Step" in project YouVerify!
6. The role of facilitation to foster participation and ensure knowledge transfer in media and information literacy: the case of the MOOC "Disinformation Step by Step"
7. Fighting against disinformation: measuring effects in Spain
8. 21st-century skills: enforcing resilience and critical thinking against visual disinformation through serious games
Section 3. Fighting mis- and disinformation from a policy making perspective. Solutions from projects YouCheck! and YouVerify!
9. Fighting disinformation: evidence for policy making
10. Public policies to fight disinformation actively through media and information literacy
Conclusions
