La sociedad de la desinformación: estudios sobre la cultura política colombiana durante las elecciones presidenciales de 2018

Abstract

The following work presents the results of the research project entitled Configuration of democratic political culture in Bucaramanga: conceptual categories, political actors and electoral practices, developed by historians Dayana Lucía Lizcano Herrera and Oscar Mauricio Pabón Serrano, within the framework of the Ninth Call Research Intern at the Universidad Santo Tomás Seccional Bucaramanga. The selected title satirises and criticizes the way in which that moment in contemporary history that began to be called the new and evolved time of the "information society" has been distorted and disfigured, in response to intensive use and paper preponderant of ICT, specifically to the massification of the internet and the services provided through this network. Many claimed that with the new millennium would come a better, more informed, knowledgeable, developed, peaceful, democratic and sustainable society. But during the second decade of the 21st century it was seen how these new technologies were used to misinform, manipulate and frighten the public, with an effect contrary to what was expected, the times of “fake news” and post-truth came, which even broke the system political considered as the culmination of the process of western civilization: democracy