Literacy in a post-truth world
: This theoretical paper examines whether acquiring better literacy skills may help people to be less vulnerable to various types of information disorders such as fake news or conspiracy theories. We start this venture by looking, first, at the relationships between vulnerability to information diso...
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| author | Régine Kolinksy Camila Arnal Habiba Bouali Julia Justino Méghane Tossonian Sabina Rautu José Morais Myrto Pantazi Olivier Klein |
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| description | : This theoretical paper examines whether acquiring better literacy skills may help people to be less vulnerable to various types of information disorders such as fake news or conspiracy theories. We start this venture by looking, first, at the relationships between vulnerability to information disorders and literacy (or, more generally, formal education), and second, at the literacy-induced transfer effects on cognitive skills. Then we will comment on some interesting findings made within the framework of an experimental project in which we examined subliterate adults and adolescents. Grounded on these results, we conjecture on the relationships between literacy, logical reasoning, critical thinking and endorsement of conspiracy theories. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3e6e76b38486454695f2065797cf2ef22023-06-07T17:01:26ZporUniversidade de Santa Cruz do SulSigno1982-20142022-12-014790021310.17058/signo.v47i90.1787017244Literacy in a post-truth worldRégine Kolinksy0Camila Arnal1Habiba Bouali2Julia Justino3Méghane Tossonian4Sabina Rautu5José Morais6Myrto Pantazi7Olivier Klein8Université Libre de BruxellesUniversité Libre de BruxellesUniversité Libre de BruxellesUniversité Libre de BruxellesUniversité Libre de BruxellesUniversité Libre de BruxellesUniversité Libre de BruxellesUniversité Libre de BruxellesUniversité Libre de Bruxelles: This theoretical paper examines whether acquiring better literacy skills may help people to be less vulnerable to various types of information disorders such as fake news or conspiracy theories. We start this venture by looking, first, at the relationships between vulnerability to information disorders and literacy (or, more generally, formal education), and second, at the literacy-induced transfer effects on cognitive skills. Then we will comment on some interesting findings made within the framework of an experimental project in which we examined subliterate adults and adolescents. Grounded on these results, we conjecture on the relationships between literacy, logical reasoning, critical thinking and endorsement of conspiracy theories.https://online.unisc.br/seer/index.php/signo/article/view/17870literacylogical reasoningcritical thinkingconspiracy theories |
| spellingShingle | Régine Kolinksy Camila Arnal Habiba Bouali Julia Justino Méghane Tossonian Sabina Rautu José Morais Myrto Pantazi Olivier Klein Literacy in a post-truth world Signo literacy logical reasoning critical thinking conspiracy theories |
| title | Literacy in a post-truth world |
| title_full | Literacy in a post-truth world |
| title_fullStr | Literacy in a post-truth world |
| title_full_unstemmed | Literacy in a post-truth world |
| title_short | Literacy in a post-truth world |
| title_sort | literacy in a post truth world |
| topic | literacy logical reasoning critical thinking conspiracy theories |
| url | https://online.unisc.br/seer/index.php/signo/article/view/17870 |
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