Book brings together essays on journalism’s relationship with democracy, authenticity and new media, disinformation and literacy

“The Right to Not Be Misinformed, Media, Fact Checking and literacies in Portugal”, published by Almedina editor, this month, is a book that analysed the stakeholders in today’s social communication and the way they act in public spheres. The book ends by calling for reflection on the role of literacy, journalism, and new consumers and participants in the public sphere. The beginning of the book recalls Hannah Arendt in ‘Truth and Politics’ in the New Yorker in 1967: Freedom of opinion is a farce if information about the facts is not guaranteed and if the facts themselves are not the subject of debate.

Gustavo Cardoso signs the foreword ‘My “information” is better than your “disinformation”’, in which he analyses the concept of authenticity in the new ecosystem, in contrast to what it seemed to be in the mass communication model.

Vania Baldi, who organizes the set of texts that can be read in this work, explains the choice of title. Claiming the right not to be misinformed means claiming a multiplicity of rights. The research and professor of ISCTE – IUL, and membre of IBERIFIER, analyses the current moment of journalism and its importance in maintaining democratic organization.

The book includes chapters based on studies carried out by the IBERIFIER project, dedicated to analysing disinformation in the international and local context, but mainly focused on the on the media challenges facing the Iberian Peninsula. In this sense, the scenarios of disinformation are analysed, its socio-political repercussions and the institutional journalistic and new journalistic pratices, new consumption habits, activities to increase literacy levels, among many others.






Otros artículos

Meeting in Madrid: Media Literacy includes understanding disinformation but must also go beyond it, fostering critical thinking and constant updating

The Academic Meeting on Media Literacy, organized by the Iberian Observatory of Digital Media, IBERIFIER, took place this Wednesday, September 10, in Madrid, bringing together researchers and specialists to reflect on the challenges posed...

Encuentro académico IBERIFIER sobre alfabetización mediática – Madrid, 10 septiembre 2025

Encuentro académico IBERIFIER sobre alfabetización mediática Fecha: Miércoles, 10 de septiembre de 2025, de 15:30 a 19:00Lugar: (Presencial) Oficina en España del Parlamento Europeo (P.º de la Castellana, 46, Salamanca, 28046 Madrid)(Online) Canal de Youtube...

EDMO: Best of fact-checking in August

The European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO) showcases the most important fact-checking efforts across Europe through an interactive map. The interactive map here

Desinformação: Conteúdos sobre imigração nas redes sociais aumentaram 200% entre períodos eleitorais

As peças sobre imigrantes que continham desinformação cresceram cerca de 200%, de 2024 para 2025, de acordo com a análise realizada pela equipa MediaLab, do Iscte -Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. Um dos autores do...

Spain & Portugal fact-checking brief – Q2 March-May 2025

Iberifier-ReportQ2Download