2019
DOI: 10.5130/ccs.v11.i1.6065
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Building An Information Resilient Society: An Organic Approach

Abstract: Fake news, disinformation and propaganda (FDP) present an important threat to modern democratic societies and has critical an impact on the quality of public life. This article presents an organic approach to understanding of FDP. The approach builds up on the various similarities with virology where FDP is compared to a hostile virus which is spread in a certain environment and may penetrate into the human body. Based on the three pillars involving creation, spread and penetration the authors deliver in total… Show more

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“…Previous research strongly confirms that media literacy is crucial to fighting all kinds of falsehoods (Borgan, 2023;Filipec, 2019;Xiao et al, 2021;etc.). Borgan (2023), for instance, writes that ''if online disinformation is understood as a form of propaganda influenced by and influencing societies, this politically and civically engaged media literacy may aid in identifying, rejecting, and preventing the dissemination of disinformation'' (p. 28).…”
Section: The Importance Of Media Literacy To Counter Disinformationmentioning
confidence: 79%
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“…Previous research strongly confirms that media literacy is crucial to fighting all kinds of falsehoods (Borgan, 2023;Filipec, 2019;Xiao et al, 2021;etc.). Borgan (2023), for instance, writes that ''if online disinformation is understood as a form of propaganda influenced by and influencing societies, this politically and civically engaged media literacy may aid in identifying, rejecting, and preventing the dissemination of disinformation'' (p. 28).…”
Section: The Importance Of Media Literacy To Counter Disinformationmentioning
confidence: 79%
“…in Bohensky & Leitch, 2014, p.485). Filipec (2019) defines resilience as ''the mental capacity and ability of citizens to recognize and work more efficiently with manipulative information'' (p. 2). He also confirms the importance of education and critical thinking to immunize society against misinformation and disinformation.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The mentioned contribution also confirms part of the solution of our presented research focused on the importance of education as an effective fight against hybrid threats. The issue of hybrid threats was investigated in the Czech Republic by the author Filipec (2019), who states that disinformation and hoaxes are currently a vital threat to modern democratic societies and fundamentally impact society's functioning. The contribution provides experience from the Czech Republic in eight areas related to the creation and dissemination of disinformation and the analysis of obstacles in building resistance to disinformation.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Consequently, strengthening the information resilience of societies could encourage the creation of more mis-and disinformation-resilient societies (see, e.g. Filipec, 2019;Sakurai and Chughtai, 2020).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%