The scientific content curation in response to fake news and fake science
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.3145/thinkepi.2019.e13e07Keywords:
Fake news, Disinformation, Fake science, Post-truth, Content curation, Misinformation, Pseudosciences, Scholarly information, Academic libraries, University libraries, Scholars.Abstract
A reflection on the fake news fenomenon is presented from a scientific perspective. Information and scientific knowledge have their own challenges regarding disinformation (quality of the information published in scientific journals), but also in relation to emerging content on the Internet regarding pseudosciences. The curation of scientific content is proposed to fight the problem, and an alliance of scholars and university libraries is suggested to promote information literacy.
Downloads
References
Arif, Nadia; Al-Jefri, Majed; Bizzi, Isabela H.; Perano, Gianni B.; Goldman, Michel; Haq, Inam; Chua, Kee-Leng; M.; Mengozzi, Manuela; Neunez, Marie; Smith, Helen; Ghezzi, Pietro (2018). "Fake news or weak science? Visibility and characterization of antivaccine webpages returned by Google in different languages and countries". Frontiers in immunology, v. 9, p. 1215. https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2018.01215
Baiget, Tomí s; Torres-Salinas, Daniel (2013). Informe Apei sobre publicaciones científicas. Asociación Profesional de Especialistas en Información. http://www.apei.es/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/InformeAPEI-Publicacionescientificas.pdf
Crane, Diana (1967). "The gatekeepers of science: Some factors affecting the selection of articles for scientific journals". American sociologist, v. 2, n. 4, pp. 195-201
Guallar, Javier; Leiva-Aguilera, Javier (2013). El content curator. Editorial UOC: Barcelona. Colección EPI-UOC. ISBN: 978 8490640180
Guallar, Javier; Codina, Lluís (2018). "Journalistic content curation and news librarianship: Differential characteristics and necessary convergence". El profesional de la información, v. 27, n. 4, pp. 778-791. https://doi.org/10.3145/epi.2018.jul.07
Hernández-Campillo, Thais-Raquel; Carvajal-Hernández, Bárbara-María; Legañoa-Ferrá, María-de-los-Ángeles (2018). "La curación de contenidos científicos: una herramienta para la gestión informativa en los docentes universitarios". Revista publicando, v. 5, n. 14, pp. 258-272. https://www.revistapublicando.org/revista/index.php/crv/article/view/1244/0
Jokstad, Asbjorn (2017). "Launching a new journal on the internet in an era of fake science news and predatory publishing"”doing the right thing and doing the thing right". Clinical and experimental dental research, v. 3, n. 1, pp. 3-4. https://doi.org/10.1002/cre2.62
Kortelainen, Terttu (2016) "Information literacy competencies as part of content curation". In: Kurbanoglu S. et al. (eds) Information literacy: Key to an inclusive society. ECIL 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, v 676. Springer, Cham. ISBN: 978 3 319 52162 6 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52162-6_30
López-Borrull, Alexandre (2019). ""˜Fake science´: el tsunami de la desinformació arriba a la ciencia". ComeIn. Revista dels Estudis de Cií¨ncies de la Informació i la Comunicació, n. 86. https://comein.uoc.edu/divulgacio/comein/ca/numero86/articles/Fake-science-tsunami-desinformacio-ciencia.html
López-Borrull, Alexandre; Vives-Grí cia, Josep; Badell, Joan-Isidre (2018). "Fake news, ¿amenaza u oportunidad para los profesionales de la información y la documentación?". El profesional de la información, v. 27, n. 6, pp. 1346-1356. https://doi.org/10.3145/epi.2018.nov.17
Mainous III, Arch G. (2018). "Perspectives in primary care: Disseminating Scientific Findings in an era of fake news and science denial". Annals of family medicine, v. 16, p. 490-491. https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.2311
Mann, Douglas L. (2018). "Fake news, alternative facts, and things that just are not true: Can science survive the post-truth era?". JACC: Basic to translational science, v. 3, n. 4, pp. 573-574. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacbts.2018.06.003
McNair, Brian (2018). Fake news: Falsehood, fabrication and fantasy in journalism. Londres: Routledge. ISBN: 9781 138 30679 0
Merchant, Reina M.; Asch, David A. (2018). "Protecting the value of medical science in the age of social media and "˜fake news´". Journal of the American Medical Association, v. 320, n. 23, pp. 2415-2416. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2018.18416
Scheufele, Dietram A.; Krause, Nicole M. (2019). "Science audiences, misinformation, and fake news". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, v. 116, n. 6, pp. 7662-7669. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1805871115
Vosougui, Soroush; Roy, Deb; Aral, Sinan (2018). "The spread of true and false news online". Science, v. 359, n. 6380, pp. 1146-1151. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aap9559
Zuiderveen-Borgesius, Frederik J.; Trilling, Damian; Mí¶ller, Judith; Bodó, Balí zs; De-Vreese, Claes H.; Helberger, Natali (2016). "Should we worry about filter bubbles?". Internet policy review, v. 5, n. 1. https://doi.org/10.14763/2016.1.401
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Dimensions
