The falsification of information as a contempt for democracy

Authors

  • María Elisa Ghea Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina
  • Patricia Vialey Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina

Keywords:

Democracy, media, politics, power, citizenship, fake news

Abstract

Today democracies and their systems of representation are fiercely attacked, when the leader comes from the national and popular field, but quite the opposite when these governments represent the interests of neoliberalism and the extreme right, in the case of the latter in particular, they are accompanied by media groups that are in tune with real power, then collect in extraordinary profits what they sow in the social imaginary and through the construction of common sense. For which, if necessary, the so-called war journalism is used, whose mines and explosives of all kinds are fake news.

In order to find reasons that explain the current situation in which democracies and their political systems are developing, it is necessary to think, among other issues, of some questions. How unapproachable and unlimited is the media power that governments and states have not been able to counter?; Why have democratic political references even been expelled from their symbolic and material spaces and replaced by others driven by the discursive power of the media ?; Why has democracy not yet been able to democratize the word despite the laws in force in this regard? Throughout this article, we will try to find some answers.

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Author Biographies

María Elisa Ghea, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina

 

 

 

Patricia Vialey, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina



References

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Foucault, M. (1970). El orden del discurso. Traducción de Alberto González Troyano (1992). Buenos Aires, Argentina: Tusquets Editores.

Ley de servicios de comunicación Audiovisual 26.522 (2009). Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Published

2022-03-14

How to Cite

Elisa Ghea, M. . ., & Vialey, P. . (2022). The falsification of information as a contempt for democracy. Actas De Periodismo Y Comunicación, 7(2). Retrieved from https://perio.unlp.edu.ar/ojs/index.php/actas/article/view/7343

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Section

Comunicación, medios y política