Open AccessCOVID-19 and Scientific Literacy
Author(s) -
Sandro Serpa,
Carlos Miguel Ferreira,
María José Sá,
Ana Isabel Santos
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of educational and social research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.162
H-Index - 5
eISSN - 2239-978X
pISSN - 2240-0524
DOI - 10.36941/jesr-2021-0024
Subject(s) - covid-19 , literacy , pandemic , politics , data collection , selection (genetic algorithm) , population , political science , public relations , sociology , scientific literacy , social media , media studies , social science , law , medicine , computer science , demography , disease , science education , pathology , virology , artificial intelligence , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty)
The COVID-19 pandemic is, currently, the focus of all personal and collective actions at the social, cultural, economic, political and religious levels, among other dimensions of human life. This Letter to the Editor focuses on the overwhelming existence of fake news directly related to COVID-19, which permeate social networks and even the media, where journalists should act as gatekeepers and not fake-keepers. The methodology used in the collection and selection of data consisted of bibliographic research, in international databases, of publications on the topic under study and their content analysis. The results allow concluding that there is a need to promote scientific literacy in the general population but especially among journalists themselves.
Received: 30 November 2020 / Accepted: 8 January 2021 / Published: 5 March 2021