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Antecedent Conditions of Disinformation in Mexico. A Theoretical Framework

Authors
Martin Echeverría1, *
1Autonomous University of Puebla, 72810, Puebla, Mexico
*Corresponding author. Email: martin.echeverria@correo.buap.mx
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Martin Echeverría
Available Online 3 October 2023.
DOI
10.2991/978-94-6463-254-5_33How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Disinformation; Misinformation; Mexico; political communication
Abstract

Disinformation is a pervasive force in contemporary political communication. Nonetheless, its strength and characteristics are deeply situated by historical and conjunctural political factors of each country. Mexico is one of the Latin American democracies with more acute disinformation operations and flows. This paper describes such scenario and analyses three general categories of antecedent conditions, political elites, news media and citizens, to explain why disinformation is so pervasive. Media is underfunded and discredited by the public, whereas public media is weak and lacks credibility. Citizens are highly dependent of social media for their news consumption, and lack the abilities to identify misleading information. And politicians are characterized by populist and polarizing rhetoric, a tradition of deception against Mexican citizens, and their unwillingness to regulate or enforce any measures against disinformation, of which rip ample benefits. We conclude by recommending empirically and theoretically furthering this framework in order to better understand disinformation in non-consolidated democracies.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the International Conference on Communication and Applied Technologies 2023 (ICOMTA 2023)
Series
Atlantis Highlights in Social Sciences, Education and Humanities
Publication Date
3 October 2023
ISBN
978-94-6463-254-5
ISSN
2667-128X
DOI
10.2991/978-94-6463-254-5_33How to use a DOI?
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© 2024 The Author(s)
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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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