Lost paths of information on YouTube: informational education and critical thinking as allies in the fight against disinformation at the post-truth age
Disinformation; social media; informational education; Bakhtinian studies; critical consciousness
Regarding the many social problems caused by the wide spread of disinformation, as well as the rise of reactionary movements of the far-right around the globe, which are based on a broad presence of their ideologies in many online productions, the following research intends to study the discursive structure of disinformation communicated through videos on YouTube with a view to expanding a critical consciousness of the content present in productions spread all over the internet. The research starts from a notion of disinformation anchored in its materiality, seeing it as a phenomenon of physical, cognitive and social basis, whose use and intention are closely linked to the structure of the logic of capital. Allied to this, post-truth is understood as a consequence of the neoliberal offensive from the 1980s onwards, with a high content of depoliticization, which implies adopting a critical and politicized position in the formulation of informational education actions that are necessarily intertwined in a revolutionary practice. Based on Bakhtinian and Marxist studies, it is understood that these disinformations carry ideologies of the ruling class, which are manifested in discourses and these, again, in genres, which allows this information linked on the internet to have an aesthetic, compositional form and thematic unit that can be analyzed as the discursive structure that compose it