Fake news y los códigos éticos de los profesionales de la información
| Date | 01 September 2020 |
| Author |
TELOS: Revista de Estudios Interdisciplinarios en Ciencias Sociales
ISSN 1317-0570 / ISSN (e) 2343-5763
Vol.
22
(3)
: 567-578
. Septiembre-Diciembre
2020
567
Universidad Privada Dr. Rafael Belloso Chacín, Venezuela
FAKE NEWS AND INFORMATION PROFESSIONALS’ CODES OF ETHICS
Juan-José Boté-Vericad
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9815-6190
RECIBIDO: Mayo 2020 / ACEPTADO: Julio 2020 / PUBLICADO: Septiembre 2020
ABSTRACT
The goal of this paper is to discuss concepts related to Fake News. The study includes the
different meanings of Fake News, along with related information disorders. It also includes an
analysis of information professionals’ ethical codes in relation to information disorders and ethical
behaviours regarding information management. The speed and ease with which Fake News can
be disseminated has implications for these information p rofessionals. The literature review
explore some of the different taxonomies and typologies of Fake News published by the following
authors: Aznar (2019), Froehlich (2017), Verstraete, Bambauer and Bambauer ( 2017) and
Wardle and Derakshan (2017). Methodologically, this paper analyzes the information
professionals’ codes of conduct for the main organizations and associations, in a thoughtful
manner. These codes of conduct include those pu blished by the Interna tional Federation of
Libraries (IFLA, 2017), the American Library Association (ALA, 2017), the Association for
Information Sciences and Technology (ASIS&T, 1992), and the Society of Professional
Journalists (Society of Professional Journalists, 2014). We also discuss guidelines to avoid
unethical behaviours relating to information. The conclusions inferred from this study are that
Fake News impacts many diffe rent disciplines, such as economics and science. However,
information professionals, through their codes of conduct and aided by technology, can help
society prevent the spread of Fake News.
Keywords: Fake News, information professionals, disinformation, ethical codes, codes of
conduct.
Departament de Biblioteconomia, Documentació i Comunicació Audiovisual & Centre de Recerca en Informació, Comunicació i Cultura.
Universitat de Barcelona. C/ Melcior de Palau 140, 08014 ES, Barcelona. Correo electr ónico: juanjo.botev@ub.edu
Como citar: Boté-Vericad, Juan-José (2020). Fake News and Inf ormation Professionals’ Codes of
Ethics. Telos: revista de Estudios Interdiscipli narios en Ciencias Sociales, 22 (3), Venezuela.
(Pp.567-578).
DOI: www.doi.org/10.36390/telos223.07
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