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Data Perception and Information Disorder in the Italian Context During the Pandemic

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dc.creatorCiafalo, Giovanni
dc.creatorUgolini, Lorenzo
dc.creatorCiammella, Fabio
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-23T12:52:57Z
dc.date.available2024-10-23T12:52:57Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractThis paper aims to investigate how Italian audiences received and perceived data-driven television news during the Covid-19 pandemic. During this time, the logic and practices of creating and consuming television journalism were disrupted by the pandemic emergency. The paper presents the results of research carried out as part of a wider project titled “The Social Effects of Fake News” which was conducted from 2018 to 2022 within the CoRiS department of Sapienza University of Rome. The research project was reshaped in 2020, to understand the effects of what has been called “information disorder” in the areas of health, medicine, and science at a time when, together with the pandemic, an “infodemic” also emerged. We use Wardle and Derakhshan’s notion of “information disorder” as presented in their Council of Europe report. The results of the survey research we conducted show a surprising paradox. We found an interesting pattern of receiving and using information content based on data, in which users trust those who produce and validate certain data and at the same time do not believe that same data. This pattern of use indicates a particular approach to dealing with news among the Italian public. We have labelled it “know-it-all.” This article aims to deepen the understanding of this paradox of trust in experts but not in the data they deliver and how journalistic practice should deal with this conundrum.en
dc.identifier.doi10.18146/view.328
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/23180
dc.identifier.urihttps://viewjournal.eu/articles/328/files/66fef816030cd.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/24932
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherNetherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
dc.publisher.placeHilversum
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2213-0969
dc.relation.ispartofseriesVIEW. Journal of European Television History and Culture
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
dc.subjectItalyen
dc.subjectFake Newsen
dc.subjectInformation Disorderen
dc.subjectCovid-19en
dc.subjectPandemicen
dc.subject.ddcddc:300
dc.titleData Perception and Information Disorder in the Italian Context During the Pandemicen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dspace.entity.typeArticle
local.coverpage2024-10-24T02:45:59
local.source.issue25
local.source.issueTitleThe Datafication Challenge
local.source.volume13

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