How to become an informed citizen in the (dis)information society? Recommendations and strategies to mobilize one’s critical thinking

• Autor(a) principal: Franco, Amanda
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Sousa, Ana Sofia, Vieira, Rui Marques
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10773/31843
• topic: Critical Thinking; Informed Citizenship; Disinformation; Workshop

We are confronted with information up-to-the-minute, often accepting it no questions asked. In the meanwhile, not always do the news agencies find the time to assure the fact checking of news, and this when there are covert intentions to raise disinformation, which creates the ideal context for the proliferation of “fake news”. To avoid being held hostage by disinformation that may lead to poor life decisions that may be harmful to oneself/others, each citizen must develop critical thinking capacities and dispositions to participate in a conscious and informed way in the public life. In this framework, we present a workshop that was carried out with the goal of raising participants’ awareness about the impact of (dis)information in their lives, and of supporting them in the identification of strategies to mobilize their critical thinking to analyze the news in their day-to-day. Also in light of the participants’ evaluation of this workshop, we make considerations about the relevance of critical thinking for an informed citizenship.