MEDIA EDUCATION: the fight against post-truth and misinformation on trafficking in women and girls

  1. Machado, Sandra de Souza 1
  2. Sánchez Torrejón, Begoña 2
  3. Amar Rodríguez, Víctor 2
  1. 1 Correio Braziliense
  2. 2 Universidad de Cádiz
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    Universidad de Cádiz

    Cádiz, España

    ROR https://ror.org/04mxxkb11

Revista:
Revista Observatório

ISSN: 2447-4266

Año de publicación: 2020

Volumen: 6

Número: 6

Páginas: a6en

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.20873/UFT.2447-4266.2020V6N6A6EN GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAcceso abierto editor

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Resumen

Data, discursive and methodological analysis, from the perspective of Communication and Education gender studies, are applied aiming media literacy for a responsive citizenship in the fight against trafficking in women and girls. Questioning gender violence in misinformation, fake news, post-truths, and malicious intentions. Media literacy, co-education and collective awareness function as strategies of action to combat the trafficking of (young) women, which reaches alarming degrees in the 21st century, including during the global pandemic of COVID-19.