FAKE NEWS SOCIAL REPRESENTATIONS, CURRENT PERSPECTIVES OF FALSE NEWSFake news, social representations, psychosocial processes, post-truth, false news
The objective of this study is to identify and analyze the social representations linked to Fake News, from the perspective of the theory of social representations (S. Moscovici), especially using the structural approach, in order to identify and organize the representations in the format of conceptual maps to enable a better analysis of the structure of the central elements of possible social representations. Therefore, it is intended to promote research with a qualitative approach, through an online questionnaire, initially with semi-structured questions (open and closed). After collecting the data, we aim to compile and analyze in textual classes the results obtained with the aid of textual analysis software and using the lexicography of the terms found to define the organic assumptions and the limitations of the social construction of social representations in relation to the term Fake News.