La credibilidad de las noticias en Internetuna evaluación de la información por estudiantes universitarios

  1. Paula Herrero-Diz 1
  2. Jesús Conde-Jiménez 1
  3. Alejandro Tapia-Frade 1
  4. David Varona-Aramburu 1
  1. 1 Universidad Loyola Andalucía
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    Universidad Loyola Andalucía

    Sevilla, España

    ROR https://ror.org/0075gfd51

Journal:
Culture and Education, Cultura y Educación

ISSN: 1135-6405,  1578-4118

Year of publication: 2019

Issue Title: "Fak news" y educación

Volume: 31

Issue: 2

Pages: 420-434

Type: Article

DOI: 10.1080/11356405.2019.1601937 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR

More publications in: Culture and Education, Cultura y Educación

Abstract

The spread of online disinformation is one of the 10 global risks of the future according to the World Economic Forum, and 51% of experts believe that this situation will not improve in the coming years. By 2022, half of the news will be fake news. In terms of users, young people and adults have problems understanding where the information they find online comes from and what sources to trust or not. In order to ascertain the degree of credibility that young users in Andalucía give to information, this study presents the results of the evaluation of online news by university students pursuing degrees in communication and education (N = 188), using the CRAAP test. The data reveal differences in gender and degree programme in the credibility assigned to the news. The conclusion is that university students have difficulty differentiating the veracity of the sources, in line with previous studies, with fake news earning higher ratings than real news.

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