Información y comunicación durante los primeros meses de Covid-19. Infodemia, desinformación y papel de los profesionales de la información // Information and communication during the early months of Covid-19: infodemics, misinformation, and the role of information professionals

Aleixandre-Benavent, Rafael, Castelló-Cogollos, Lourdes and Valderrama-Zurián, Juan-Carlos Información y comunicación durante los primeros meses de Covid-19. Infodemia, desinformación y papel de los profesionales de la información // Information and communication during the early months of Covid-19: infodemics, misinformation, and the role of information professionals. Profesional de la información, 2020, vol. 29, n. 4. [Journal article (Unpaginated)]

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English abstract

The Covid-19 pandemic has introduced challenges throughout the world and is endangering people’s prosperity. To these health, economic, political, and social challenges have been added those related to the management and dissemination of information, mainly concerning its exponential growth, veracity, and dissemination. Providing objective evidence-based information contributes to meeting these challenges. Social media and social networks are playing a key role in informing society about the evolution of the pandemic and progress towards its eradication. However, social networks are also a vehicle for the transmission of biased or false news that can endanger people’s health. Information professionals play a key role in correcting misinformation if they are able to filter out untruthful information and make resources with proven quality available to the population. In addition, they must manage scientific information about the pandemic, which is advancing at an accelerated pace. Currently, China is the leader while Spain is in fifth place in the development of research projects and scientific publications. The scientific research focuses on epidemiological aspects, respiratory diseases, drug treatments, and diagnostic tests. Many journals, databases, repositories, and other information systems have made their publications and other information resources available in record time to encourage the progress of such research.

Spanish abstract

La pandemia de la Covid-19 ha generado desafíos en todo el mundo y está poniendo en peligro la prosperidad de la población. A los desafíos sanitarios, económicos, políticos y sociales, se han añadido los relacionados con la gestión y difusión de la información, debidos sobre todo a su crecimiento exponencial, su veracidad y difusión. Proporcionar información objetiva basada en pruebas contribuye a afrontar estos desafíos. Los medios de comunicación social y las redes sociales están jugando un papel clave informando a la sociedad de la evolución de la pandemia y de los avances hacia su erradicación. Sin embargo, las redes sociales también son el vehículo de transmisión de noticias poco objetivas o falsas que pueden poner en peligro la salud de las personas. Los profesionales de la información juegan un papel clave para corregir la desinformación si son capaces de filtrar la información veraz y poner a disposición de la población recursos de calidad contrastada. Además, deben gestionar la información científica sobre la pandemia que avanza a un ritmo acelerado, con China como líder y España en el quinto lugar en el desarrollo de proyectos de investigación y publicaciones científicas. Las investigaciones hacen hincapié en los aspectos epidemiológicos, enfermedades respiratorias, tratamientos farmacológicos y pruebas diagnósticas. Numerosas revistas, bases de datos, repositorios y otros sistemas de información han puesto en abierto sus publicaciones y otros recursos informativos en tiempo record para favorecer el avance de las investigaciones.

Item type: Journal article (Unpaginated)
Keywords: Covid-19; Coronavirus; Pandemics; Infodemics; Health information; Overinformation; Fake news; Scientific publications; Research projects; Co-word networks; International collaboration; Information professionals; Covid-19; Coronavirus; Pandemias; Infodemias; Información de salud; Sobreinformación; Noticias falsas; Publicaciones científicas; Proyectos de investigación; Redes de copalabras; Colaboración internacional; Profesionales de la información.
Subjects: B. Information use and sociology of information > BA. Use and impact of information.
B. Information use and sociology of information > BJ. Communication
H. Information sources, supports, channels. > HT. Web 2.0, Social networks
Depositing user: Dr. Nicoleta-Roxana Dinu
Date deposited: 25 Aug 2020 12:56
Last modified: 25 Aug 2020 12:56
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/40334

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