DIVULGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA COMO TENDENCIA EMERGENTE EN LA EDUCACIÓN, INVESTIGACION Y DESARROLLO TERRITORIAL
Author
Bustamante Cabrera, Gladys Inés
Gaytan Bertruy , Ivonne Adriana
Abstract
During the COVID-19 pandemic, disinformation and false news were detected in the mass media; During the COVID-19 pandemic, disinformation content and fake news were detected in the media, exposing unregulated data and misleading information about the results of measures and mechanisms for monitoring research on the disease, revealing a lack of scientific and informative rigor, which gave as a response, that some groups of scientists and research centers of prestige, took the decision to integrate networks to demystify some alleged reports resulting from research, as well as implement new methodologies of scientific knowledge transfer, where the fake information of social networks was confronted, to visualize that such veracity was questionable, and that users were subject to influence, generating an uncertain infodemia, for some data that were unpredictably true, for this, some research centers or public institutions of higher education in Latin and Central America concerned that society find reliable sources and information, took the decision and opportunity to demonstrate the veracity of the information that was issued through the consolidation of research networks and increased investment in experimental research. Durante la pandemia por COVID-19 se detectaron en los medios de comunicación de mayor circulación; contenidos de desinformación y noticias falsas, exponiendo datos no regulados e información engañosa sobre los resultados de las medidas y mecanismos de seguimiento de las investigaciones en torno a la enfermedad, revelando en ellas, una carencia de rigurosidad científica y divulgativa, que dio como respuesta, que algunos grupos de científicos y centros de investigación de prestigio, tomaran la decisión de integrar redes para desmitificar algunos supuestos informes resultantes de investigaciones, así como implementar nuevas metodologías de transferencia de conocimiento científico, en donde se confrontaba la información “fake” de redes sociales, para visualizar que tal veracidad era cuestionable, y que los usuarios eran objeto de influencia, generando una infodemia incierta, por algunos datos que eran imprevisiblemente ciertos.