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The rise of disinformation and media-based violence
June 03, 20207:00 p.m.
ONLINE
Casa Árabe’s Twitter and YouTube channels.
7:00 p.m.
In Spanish.
At this online round table discussion, Casa Árabe is inviting four experts and role-players from the world of information to debate over the present and future of disinformation. It will be taking place on June 3, on our social media, including Twitter and YouTube.
Taking part in the talk will be Carme Colomina, a researcher on the European Union, misinformation and global policy at CIDOB; Leila Nachawati, a specialist in communication and human rights in the Middle East and North Africa and a professor of Communication at the Universidad Carlos III of Madrid; Giancarlo Fiorella, a researcher with the journalism portal bellingcat.com, and Javier Martín, a correspondent for the Efe news agency in Tunisia, Algeria and Libya.
The term “post-truth” was considered the Word of the Year in 2016 by the Oxford Dictionary. In broad terms, it is a way of communicating reality, a narration in which emotions or opinions hold greater importance that real information. Voting processes like the Brexit referendum in the United Kingdom and the latest elections in the United States have been influenced by the power of the digital era, but so have the violent sectarianism and political polarization in countries like Iraq and Egypt, and strategic offensive to perform recruitment by Daesh, the self-proclaimed Islamic State. Several scholars point out that, as media users, we tend to seek out narratives which confirm our view of the world and seldom question the sources behind them.
Thus, the greatest challenge involving information in the twenty-first century seems to lie in the manipulation of the truth and a proliferation of rumors and “fake news,” the consequences of which have grown even more alarming in times of the pandemic which we are currently experiencing, because they can lead to new forms of extremism and strict controls by the State.
The term “post-truth” was considered the Word of the Year in 2016 by the Oxford Dictionary. In broad terms, it is a way of communicating reality, a narration in which emotions or opinions hold greater importance that real information. Voting processes like the Brexit referendum in the United Kingdom and the latest elections in the United States have been influenced by the power of the digital era, but so have the violent sectarianism and political polarization in countries like Iraq and Egypt, and strategic offensive to perform recruitment by Daesh, the self-proclaimed Islamic State. Several scholars point out that, as media users, we tend to seek out narratives which confirm our view of the world and seldom question the sources behind them.
Thus, the greatest challenge involving information in the twenty-first century seems to lie in the manipulation of the truth and a proliferation of rumors and “fake news,” the consequences of which have grown even more alarming in times of the pandemic which we are currently experiencing, because they can lead to new forms of extremism and strict controls by the State.
