FAKE NEWS AND ITS APPROACHES IN BRAZIL:

Balance of a evolution of a research agenda

Authors

  • Rogério Schlegel Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP) - Escola de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (EFLCH) - Campus Guarulhos Departamento de Ciências Sociais Vínculo Institucional: Professor Adjunto A1 Regime de trabalho: Dedicação Exclusiva https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1297-0819
  • Amanda Freitas Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP) - Escola de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (EFLCH) - Campus Guarulhos Departamento de Ciências Sociais Vínculo institucional: Aluna de Graduação em Ciências Sociais https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2010-1485

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22409/conflu.v23i3.44497

Keywords:

fake news. desinformação. Ciências Sociais

Abstract

Bibliographic surveys on international articles show that the majority of researches on “fake news” have been developed by the areas of medicine and communication/journalism, mainly through quantitative methods, with a significant scarcity of Social Sciences and Humanities, reflecting on political dimensions, electoral and democratic impacts. This article develops systematic bibliographic review, employing explicit and replicable procedures, in search of articles further analyzed substantively in order to describe temporality, field of knowledge, research goals, methods adopted and other characteristics of interest. The authors mapped research articles published in portuguese or by brazilian authors until august 2020, in journals present in the international database DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals), in which the expression “fake news” appeared in the title, abstract and/or in the keywords. The search resulted in 68 articles, with concentration mainly in the fields of Social Sciences, Communication, Health and Education. Predominantly, the works discussed characteristics of fake news content, countermeasures, and conceptual discussions about the impacts of disinformation. Qualitative approaches were more frequent than quantitative. The COVID-19 pandemic declared in 2020 propelled the research about the topic more than presidential elections of 2018. The contrast with international production suggests space for further investigation that could be comparative, quantitative, with more methodological rigour in qualitative analysis and focus on prevalence of fake news.

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Author Biographies

Rogério Schlegel, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP) - Escola de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (EFLCH) - Campus Guarulhos Departamento de Ciências Sociais Vínculo Institucional: Professor Adjunto A1 Regime de trabalho: Dedicação Exclusiva

Professor da Unifesp (Universidade Federal de São Paulo), credenciado nos programas de pós-graduação em Ciências Sociais (Unifesp) e Gestão de Política Públicas (Universidade de São Paulo). É pesquisador do CEM/Cebrap (Centro de Estudos da Metrópole/Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento), do Nupps/USP (Núcleo de Estudos em Políticas Públicas da Universidade de São Paulo) e do Pimentalab (EFLCH/Unifesp). Edita a série Textos para Discussão CEM e colabora com periódicos nacionais (e.g. RBCS, Opinião Pública) e internacionais (e. g. Regional & Federal Studies, Brazilian Political Science Review).

Amanda Freitas, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP) - Escola de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (EFLCH) - Campus Guarulhos Departamento de Ciências Sociais Vínculo institucional: Aluna de Graduação em Ciências Sociais

Graduanda em Ciências Sociais na EFLCH UNIFESP (Escola de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas). Bolsista FAPESP em Ciência Política e Comunicação. Participante do grupo de pesquisa Pimentalab - Sociedade, Conhecimento e Tecnologia no Laboratório de Humanidades Digitais (Lab.hum) da EFLCH-UNIFESP. Tem interesse pelas áreas de estudos eleitorais, redes sociais, desinformação e fake news, microtargeting político, teoria da democracia e ciência política da internet. Realizou entre 2019 e 2020 pesquisa de iniciação científica com bolsa PIBIC-CNPq sobre o impacto das redes sociais e das novas tecnologias de informação e comunicação nas eleições brasileiras de 2018 e nas eleições norte-americanas de 2016. Atualmente desenvolve pesquisa de iniciação científica com bolsa FAPESP no mesmo projeto.

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Published

2021-12-01

How to Cite

Schlegel, R., & Freitas, A. (2021). FAKE NEWS AND ITS APPROACHES IN BRAZIL:: Balance of a evolution of a research agenda. Confluências | Interdisciplinary Review of Sociology and Law, 23(3), 204-228. https://doi.org/10.22409/conflu.v23i3.44497

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Vol. 23 No. 3 (2021): CONFLUÊNCIAS

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