O compartilhamento de informações em tempos de Fake News: um estudo com alunos concluintes do curso de Biblioteconomia da UFPB

Abstract

This present academic work aims to investigate the behavior of students concluding the Librarianship course at the Federal University of Paraíba, in the period 2019.2, when sharing information in the era of fake news, through social media. For this purpose, a case study with a qualitative approach was done as the methodology, under the classification proposed by Gil (2017), as basic, applied, and exploratory research. The instrument for data collection and analysis was through online conversations with graduates of the Librarianship course at the Federal University of Paraíba, in the period 2019.2. It was found that respondents are feeling the spreadof misinformation, and it is still a constant challenge to establish fact-checking in the face of the large accumulation of information constantly propagated in digital social media. It was concluded that future librarians can use their informational competence to help avoid sharing incorrect information, guiding users.