Science Literacy in the Age of Disinformation: Building Bridges to Address the Complexity of the Challenge

• Autores: Erasmo Moisés dos Santos Silva, Agnaldo Arroio
• Localización: Media and Information Literacy as a Public Good / coord. por Maarit Jaakkola, Tomás Durán Becerra, Omwoyo Bosire Onyancha, 2023, ISBN 978-958-763-705-2, págs. 81-100
• Idioma: español
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• Resumen

  • Science education and media and information literacy (MIL) significantly contribute to the current landscape of contested knowledge surrounding science and scientists, as evidenced by movements against COVID-19 health protocols. Nonetheless, a broader view than that typically portrayed of complexity is required. This chapter aims to offer recommendations to avoid counter-productive approaches based on problematic assumptions, such as considering all types of untrustworthy information as fake news. Thus, this chapter aims to problematize views about the information disorder phenomenon in the context of natural science in Brazil by providing a complex and coherent vision of the issue in the context of natural science educators and education. For this purpose, the following questions are addressed: If not fake news, what concept(s) should natural science educators address in their practice? Why can not only ignorance explain the scientific informational disorders? What makes science and scientists vulnerable to information disorders? Why can (science) education not be the only solution to (scientific) disinformation disorders? To provide answers to these questions, this chapter poses scientific literacy and MIL as an urgency to sustain democracy, science, and public good in contemporary times.