HERRERO DIZ, PAULA, CONDE JIMÉNEZ, JESÚS, TAPIA FRADE, ALEJANDRO JOSÉ, VARONA ARAMBURU, DAVID
No
Cult. Educ.
Article
Científica
0.727
0.339
01/01/2019
000474657800008
2-s2.0-85071928103
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 Andalucia 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.
disinformation; fake news; CRAAP test; higher education; media literacy