1st Edition
Disinformation Debunked Building Resilience through Media and Information Literacy
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.
Introduction
Divina Frau-Meigs and Nicoleta Corbu
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
Michael Hameleers
2. The Political Economy of Fact-Checking: From Hope to Reality Check
Joseph Beaudreau
3. MIL theories and the fight against disinformation in practice: projects YouCheck! and YouVerify!
Divina Frau-Meigs, Nicoleta Corbu and Sara Osuna-Acedo
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
Nicoleta Corbu, Divina Frau-Meigs, Adina Ionescu and Jade Azzoug Montané
5. Scaling up the fight against disinformation: the MOOC “Disinformation Step by Step” in project YouVerify!
Divina Frau-Meigs, Flavia Durach, Roberto Feltrero, Sophia Hamadi and Pascale Garreau
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”
Adeline Bossu
7. Fighting against disinformation: measuring effects in Spain
Sonia Santoveña-Casal, José Javier Hueso Romero and Javier Gil-Quintana
8. 21st-century skills: enforcing resilience and critical thinking against visual disinformation through serious games
Roberto Feltrero, Adina Ionescu, Saeta Hernando and Cristina Sánchez
Section 3. Fighting mis- and disinformation from a policy making perspective. Solutions from projects YouCheck! and YouVerify!
9. Fighting disinformation: evidence for policy making
Nicoleta Corbu, Divina Frau-Meigs, Denis Teyssou and Alina Bârgăoanu
10. Public policies to fight disinformation actively through media and information literacy
Flavia Durach, Loredana Vladu, Iuliana Călin and Marina Enache
Conclusions: research on MIL, fact-checking, and disinformation debunked: MIL checkmates fake news
Nicoleta Corbu and Divina Frau-Meigs
Biography
Divina Frau-Meigs is Professor of media and ICT sociology at Sorbonne Nouvelle University, France. She is a specialist of cultural diversity, internet governance and media and information literacy (MIL) as well as a researcher in the media uses and practices of young people and information disorders (radicalization, disinformation, hate speech etc.). She is the author and (co)editor of more than 40 books and 300 scholarly articles and book chapters. She holds the UNESCO Chair “Savoir Devenir in the era of digital development” (2015–), part of MILID and ORBICOM global networks. She founded the NGO Savoir*Devenir in 2017 to develop projects in MIL and digital citizenship. She is an expert with UNESCO, the Council of Europe and the European Union. As such, she was part of the EU high-level expert group on online disinformation (2018) and the high-level expert group on media literacy (2010–) as well as being a member of the Information for All Programme (IFAP) at UNESCO.
Nicoleta Corbu is Professor at the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration (SNSPA), Bucharest, Romania. She is the director of the Interdisciplinary PhD School (SNSPA) and executive director of the Center for Research in Communication. She is Vice Chair of ECREA Political Communication section. She is the recipient of a Fulbright grant in the United States (University of Georgia, 2008–2009), and was visiting professor at Florida Gulf Coast University (2012). She is currently part of BROD EDMO hub (European Media Digital Observatory) and member of the Network of European Political Communication Scholars (NEPOCS) since 2018. She has published books and papers on political communication and education policies.
