ISCTE launches first postgraduate course in ‘fact-checking’ in Portugal
ONE The first phase of applications for the postgraduate course in ‘fact-checking’, information and information to train citizens in combating the phenomenon of ‘fake news’ is open until January 9, 2023 and can be done on the ISCTE website , in Applications.
The course aims to reinforce students’ academic and professional skills, giving them greater rigor in the analysis of disinformation and in the production of informative media content, and to provide tools for critical and informed consumption, in order to more easily identify elements of manipulation , misinformation or lack of rigor.
This training offer is intended not only for professionals in communication, marketing, public relations and similar areas, but also for all citizens who are concerned about the consequences of misinformation.
The course results from “the emergence over the last decade of an increasing number of large-scale communication disorders, such as disinformation”, and therefore, it is necessary to reinforce that “information is the greatest asset of democracies and without information factual and verified there are no democracies”, explained professor Gustavo Cardoso to Lusa.
Graduate studies begin in February 2023, ending the first semester in June. The second starts in September and ends in December. Classes are face-to-face after work hours, three days a week.
This postgraduate course has a partnership with the fact-checking newspaper Polígrafo, within the scope of the research project of the Iberian Observatory of Digital Media and Disinformation (Iberifier), and the European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO), of which Agência Lusa is responsible. part, along with 21 other entities from Portugal and Spain.
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