Competência crítica em informação como resistência à sociedade da desinformação sob um olhar freiriano: diagnósticos, epistemologia e caminhos ante as distopias informacionais contemporâneas

Abstract

Emphasize the Paulo Freire’s contribution and importance to Critical Information Literacy (hereinafter CIL), contributing with two possible applications from this perspective: for resistance to disinformation – systematizing its causes and motivations – and against discrimination – with the construction of two new dimensions of CIL in gender, feminisms and sexuality and in ethnic-racial relations. Always from a Freirian perspective and linked to Critical Pedagogy, in view of the diagnosis of the Society of Disinformation, this thesis defends that the way to deal with information in contemporary times is through critical thinking and the construction, promotion and teaching of Critical Information Literacy. It raises the need for the CIL's praxis to build resistance to the mechanisms of manipulation, misinformation, other informational dystopias and for the exercise of citizenship. It postulates that the teaching of Critical Information Literacy can be a way to resist the Disinformation Society. It argues that awareness of the mechanisms of disinformation confers resistance to them. Distinguishes and approaches Information Literacy (hereinafter IL), CIL and Media and Information Literacy (hereinafter MIL), proposing a complementarity that enriches its perspectives, which do not cancel or overcome. It seeks to facilitate the understanding of the theoretical bases for the teaching of CIL in Brazil as resistance to the Society of Disinformation, in Critical Theory and Critical Pedagogy. It presents the concept maps of Disinformation and its mechanisms, IL, CIL, Critical Theory and Critical Pedagogy.