Coronavirus in Spain: Fear of "official" fake news boosts WhatsApp and alternative sources

Elías Pérez, Carlos José; Catalán Matamoros, Daniel Jesús

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Coronavirus in Spain: Fear of "official" fake news boosts WhatsApp and alternative sources

dc.affiliation.dpto	UC3M. Departamento de Comunicación	es
dc.contributor.author	Elías Pérez, Carlos José
dc.contributor.author	Catalán Matamoros, Daniel Jesús
dc.date.accessioned	2020-07-02T11:15:12Z
dc.date.available	2020-07-02T11:15:12Z
dc.date.issued	2020
dc.description.abstract	The communication of the Coronavirus crisis in Spain has two unexpected components: the rise of the information on socialnetworks, especially WhatsApp, and the consolidation of TV programs on mystery and esotericism. Both have emergedto "tell the truth" in opposition to official sources and public media. For a country with a long history of treating scienceand the media as properties of the state, this very radical development has surprised communication scholars.	es
dc.format.extent	5	es
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitation	Media and Communication. V. 8, n. 2 (2020), pp. 462-466	es
dc.identifier.doi	10.17645/mac.v8i2.3217
dc.identifier.issn	2183-2439
dc.identifier.publicationfirstpage	462	es
dc.identifier.publicationissue	2	es
dc.identifier.publicationlastpage	466	es
dc.identifier.publicationtitle	Media and Communication	es
dc.identifier.publicationvolume	8	es
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10016/30665
dc.identifier.uxxi	AR/0000025451
dc.language.iso	eng	es
dc.publisher	Cogitatio Press	es
dc.relation.publisherversion	https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3217	es
dc.rights	Atribución 3.0 España	*
dc.rights.accessRights	open access	es
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/	*
dc.subject.eciencia	Ciencias de la Información	es
dc.subject.other	Coronavirus	es
dc.subject.other	Covid-19	es
dc.subject.other	Fake News	es
dc.subject.other	Journalism	es
dc.subject.other	Social Media	es
dc.subject.other	Spain	es
dc.subject.other	Whatsapp	es
dc.subject.other	Youtube	es
dc.title	Coronavirus in Spain: Fear of "official" fake news boosts WhatsApp and alternative sources	es
dc.type	research article	*
dc.type.hasVersion	VoR	*
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