Coronavirus in Spain: Fear of "official" fake news boosts WhatsApp and alternative sources Articles
Overview
published in
- Media and Communication Journal
publication date
- June 2020
start page
- 462
end page
- 466
issue
- 2
volume
- 8
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
full text
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
- 2183-2439
abstract
- The communication of the Coronavirus crisis in Spain has two unexpected components: the rise of the information on socialnetworks, especially WhatsApp, and the consolidation of TV programs on mystery and esotericism. Both have emergedto "tell the truth" in opposition to official sources and public media. For a country with a long history of treating scienceand the media as properties of the state, this very radical development has surprised communication scholars.
Classification
subjects
- Information Science
keywords
- coronavirus; covid-19; fake news; journalism; social media; spain; whatsapp; youtube