Disinformation in the 2018 elections: the debate about fake news in Brazil

The goal of this study is to understand how disinformation acts in a new organizational configuration, the network society (CASTELLS, 2000). To that end, we sought to comprehend how the dissemination of rumors and fake news in the political environment has gained an unprecedented dimension with the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Fundação Getulio Vargas. Diretoria de Análise de Políticas Públicas, Ruediger, Marco Aurélio, Grassi, Amaro
Tipo de recurso: informe técnico
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:Brasil
Institución:Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV)
Repositorio:Repositório Institucional do FGV (FGV Repositório Digital)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.fgv.br:10438/29076
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10438/29076
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Desinformation
Fake news
Elections
Ciência política
Políticas públicas
Mídia digital
Eleições
Desinformação
Robôs
Redes sociais on-line
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Sumario:The goal of this study is to understand how disinformation acts in a new organizational configuration, the network society (CASTELLS, 2000). To that end, we sought to comprehend how the dissemination of rumors and fake news in the political environment has gained an unprecedented dimension with the speed of information coming from the Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs). In this context, the internet has brought a new interpretative framework for the public sphere1 - the interconnected public sphere (BENKLER, 2006).