Banca de DEFESA: LIZETE BARBOSA DA NOBREGA

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : LIZETE BARBOSA DA NOBREGA
DATE: 24/09/2021
TIME: 10:00
LOCAL: Banca Remota
TITLE:

FACT-CHECKING IN THE FIGHT AGAINST DISINFORMATION: a case study of Agência Lupa and its strategies for the recovery of factual truth

KEY WORDS:

Media; Fact-checking; Disinformation; Digital Platforms; Journalism

PAGES: 156
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
AREA: Comunicação
SUBÁREA: Jornalismo e Editoração
SPECIALTY: Jornalismo Especializado (Comunitário, Rural, Empresarial, Científico)
SUMMARY:

Fact-checking (GRAVES, 2013; SEIBT, 2019, SCOFIELD, 2019, MANTZARLIS, 2017, SANTOS, 2019) is emerging as a Journalism practice in the disinformation scenario. (WARDLE; DERAKHSHAN, 2017). The current informational chaos is favored by countless factors like the intense mediatization in society (SODRÉ, 2006; BASTOS, 2012; HJARVARD, 2014; BRAGA, 2012) and the active role of the user that also places himself as a sender and its implications (MORETZSOHN, 2017; MARTINO, 2015), but mostly by the rising of a platform capitalism (SRNICEK, 2018) and the business model imposed by digital platforms (MOROZOV, 2018; HAN, 2018; BUCCI, 2019). Furthermore, the downfall of Journalism adds to the scenario (CHRISTOFOLETTI, 2019; MELLO, 2020; DINIZ, 2018) with the change of its environment and the growing damage to the institution’s credibility. In this master’s thesis we aim to comprehend how fact-checking inserts itself in the setting built by platform capitalism and informational chaos and, more specifically, analyze how Agência Lupa seeks to fight disinformation through fact-checking. The main objective of the case study (GIL, 2017; YIN, 2005) is to verify how Agência Lupa acts in the fight of disinformation by analyzing its practice of fact-checking and production of different projects and formats in 2020 in order to reflect on the potentials and limitations of the fact-checking practice in search of the strengthening of factual truth (BUCCI, 2019; ARENDT, 2016; SANTAELLA, 2019).
To that end, we use methodological triangulation and based ourselves on authors with different perspectives (AMAZEEN, 2015; DOBBS, 2012; USCINSKI; BUTLER, 2013; ALBUQUERQUE, 2021; LELO, 2021) to build an ample vision of the subject. We point out, lastly, the importance of efforts like fact-checking to establish a counterpoint to disinformation and to value some journalistic practices. However, we also underscore the structural limitations of the production and the instrumentalization of the format by social platforms.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1224876 - LUCIANA MIRANDA COSTA
Interna - 1912232 - LIVIA CIRNE DE AZEVEDO PEREIRA
Externo ao Programa - 4992700 - ANTONINO CONDORELLI
Externa à Instituição - LEILA SALIM LEAL