Open AccessMEDIA EDUCATION: the fight against post-truth and misinformation on trafficking in women and girls
Author(s) -
Sandra de Souza Machado,
Begoña Sánchez Torrejón,
Víctor Amar
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
revista observatório
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2447-4266
DOI - 10.20873/uft.2447-4266.2020v6n6a6en
Subject(s) - misinformation , media literacy , action (physics) , perspective (graphical) , literacy , citizenship , pandemic , political science , criminology , psychology , covid-19 , pedagogy , medicine , politics , law , physics , disease , quantum mechanics , pathology , artificial intelligence , computer science , infectious disease (medical specialty)
Data, discursive and methodological analysis, from the perspective of Communication and Education gender studies, are applied aiming media literacy for a responsive citizenship in the fight against trafficking in women and girls. Questioning gender violence in misinformation, fake news, post-truths, and malicious intentions. Media literacy, co-education and collective awareness function as strategies of action to combat the trafficking of (young) women, which reaches alarming degrees in the 21st century, including during the global pandemic of COVID-19.