Abstract

CHIBEY RIVAS, TAMARA JESÚS. Defective participation in the digital era. On the effects of disinformation and misinformation on the subject. Inmediac. Comun [online]. 2021, vol.16, n.2, pp.83-102.  Epub Dec 01, 2021. ISSN 1510-5091.  https://doi.org/10.18861/ic.2021.16.2.3157.

Since the late XXth century, society has undergone a digital transformation. Social life has been transformed and now operates in a digitalized space, where information is conceived not only as data, but as an informational operation. This new digital era brings with it great repercussions on the communicational level, but it also goes through the digital agency and the political participation of the subjects. The accumulation and acceleration of information processes -in unwanted quantities and volumes- sometimes produces disinformation, that is, abundan faulty information that circulates on digital platforms. This critical study will be guided by the following question: What effect does defective information (or misinformation and disinformation) have over the subject’s agency in digital spaces? As an hypothesis, it is argued that defective information motivates a defective participation of the subject in the informational operation, thus constituting a differential operation, understood as one whose energy transformations are born from the interaction between a subject's worldview and defective information, which grants different degrees of falsehood. We understand that the effects of defective participations on network subjects should be considered a delicate matter and one of the main focus of current studies. This proposal aims to address this need.

Keywords : information; defective information; digital era; worldview; defective participation.

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