Fake News. La pedagogía como herramienta para evadir la trampa de los medios

Abstract

We are at a time when the development of new information and communication technologies has increased, as has the number of Internet users. The wide variety of available sites has allowed the supply of data and information to grow exponentially as never before in another era of modern history. Every second new information emerges that validates or refutes the data on which we are building reality. Although today we find a greater openness to data, its generation and transmission is so fast that it is almost impossible to perform an exercise that allows verifying its validity and truthfulness. This failure is exploited by unscrupulous people who use electronic means to spread false information with the purpose of creating chaos or modifying public opinion in search of particular ends that range from personal gain to the destabilization of entire governments. Faced with this serious problem arises the present research that aims to use the tools offered by pedagogy to guide a group of young people in a Colombian city in order to recognize the truth of a news through the techniques of image analysis .