Pós verdade, fake news e educação geográfica: uma proposta de oficina como estratégia contra a infocracia e a desinformação

Abstract

In recent years, the growth of digital technology use has contributed to a significant sociocultural change in modern life, impacting how people relate to information and them-selves. Social media plays a part in this everyday process for individuals, contributing to the rising wave of misinformation in today's modern landscape. In the educational sphere, this unchecked spread, here referred to by the terms post-truth/fake news, also affects the field of Geography as it distorts reality on multiple levels. Thus, this research aims to understand how this process reflects in Geography school content in basic education in the context of new information and communication technologies by discussing strategies to combat fake news, both inside and outside educational institutions. At the same time, it seeks to highlight the importance of reflecting on and understanding the dynamics of these very technologies in today's society and their socioeconomic, cultural, and behavioral consequences. The goal was to first present a literature review on the dialogue between Geography, Communication, and Sociology in the studies of misinformation/fake news and its impacts on social life, particular-ly in Geographic Education. Next, through necessary application and reflection based on the debates that emerged during the research, workshops were conducted in the public education system, focusing on combating fake news, approached with a didactic-pedagogical method applied to a teacher training class at the Edmundo Silva State School, located in the city of Araruama/RJ. The analysis and results of this activity, along with the discussions held, pro-vided essential data for outlining strategies to confront misinformation and post-truth in the educational field, especially in Geography, with the aim of promoting an education that values the construction of citizenship and strengthens democracy. As a result of this process, the re-search led to the creation of an educational product in the form of a booklet, accessible in dig-ital format, aimed at students and geography teachers, but not exclusively for them.