Fact checkers as agents of Critical Multimedia Literacy: challenges and discursive opportunities

Authors

  • Carolina Arrieta Castillo Universidad a Distancia de Madrid

Keywords:

Critical Media Literacy, factuality, multimedia storytelling, TikTok, fact-checkers

Abstract

Fact checkers carry out the relevant work of counteracting disinformative discourses that put the democratic health of societies at risk. Through a qualitative analysis and from a critical discourse approach applied to the multimedia discursive processes in the websites of the Spanish-speaking fact-checkers and in the TikTok accounts of Newtral and Maldita, the role they play as agents in the process of Critical Media Literacy of the audience it is examined. This role is based on the acquisition of skills related to the critical analysis of information and the agents who produce it. The study will reveal that the verifiers still have to start a reflection on their relationship with factuality and that the alliance with social networks such as TikTok can favor a didactic profile of the verifiers that make them important agents of Critical (multi)Media Literacy.

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Published

2024-12-18

How to Cite

Arrieta Castillo, C. (2024). Fact checkers as agents of Critical Multimedia Literacy: challenges and discursive opportunities . Sphera Publica, 2(24). Retrieved from https://sphera.ucam.edu/index.php/sphera-01/article/view/516

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