Academia and Media in Ecuador

Pamela Cruz-Páez; Melissa Clavijo; Camila Villacrés

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Academia and Media in Ecuador

A Verification and Digital Literacy Alliance Against Disinformation

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Pamela Cruz-Páez¹^{, 2}^{, *}, Melissa Clavijo¹^{, 3}, Camila Villacrés¹

¹Journalism Career, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador

²Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, Spain

³Northeastern University, Boston, USA

^*Corresponding author. Email: pjcruz@asig.com.ec

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Pamela Cruz-Páez

Available Online 10 December 2022.

DOI: 10.2991/978-2-494069-25-1_6 How to use a DOI?
Keywords: Disinformation; Pandemic; Digital literacy; Fact – checking
Abstract: In the health crisis due to Covid-19, two coalitions to fight disinformation were born in Ecuador. This article analyzes the actions taken by the Interuniversity Observatory of Ecuadorian Media and Ecuador Verifica. Both organizations are pioneers in implementing media-academic alliances to verify political discourses, apply digital literacy strategies and do research. We gathered 98 informational pieces between the two case studies through a quantitative approach. The findings underscore peculiarities of the combative actions against disinformation in Ecuador giving priority to digital literacy. Citizens are the main audience, but both organizations created debate spaces for journalists and students, even translating content from Spanish to Kichwa, the country’s indigenous language. It is evident that this intercultural component plus a multi-actor response are pertinent to face new waves of disinformation.
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Volume Title: Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on International Studies in Social Sciences and Humanities (CISOC 2022)
Series: Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date: 10 December 2022
ISBN: 978-2-494069-25-1
ISSN: 2352-5398
DOI: 10.2991/978-2-494069-25-1_6 How to use a DOI?
Open Access: Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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