This text approaches the obstacles that prevent the general public from differentiating messages and information from the reality. For such purpose, we work with two basic ideas: on the one hand, the advances of democracy in the Western world and, on the other hand, the development of the media and the establishment of media society. We present the conflict between republican political mechanisms and freedom of...
This article has several aims: the first one is to showthe results of a research that has been conducted by the Observatório de Comunicação, Liberdade de Expressão e Censura (OBCOM-USP), from the Arquivo Miroel Silveira of the Escola de Comunicações e Artes of São Paulo University (AMS/ECA-USP), on censorhip of media and artistic production. The theme of freedom expression has become increasingly important for ...
This article addresses two fundamental concepts, educommunication and disinformation, trying to show the manipulation of information and that the influence of communication technologies on public opinion has been a central concern of philosophers and scholars of human communication. Thus, analyzing disinformation as a current phenomenon, the main theories of communication sciences are presented, which provide s...