Alfabetización digital y el impacto de las fake news en los jóvenes de la ciudad de Guayaquil

Abstract

Abstract:The present work called Digital literacy and the impact of the fake news on the youth of the city of Guayaquil identifies the process, creation and circulation of false news in the social network of Facebook, considering that currently its spread has great prominence , which generates misinformation in consumers, in the same way, fake news is identified as the cause for the media to have lost credibility, therefore they are also considered as a problem for the information industry, to determine the level Digital literacy that has the citizens involved in the project is a starting point of the present investigation. The contribution of the research is evidenced in the analysis of the surveys applied to young people aged 15 to 18 in the city of Guayaquil, and the influence of the fake news in social, political, economic and cultural decisions and predictions, managing to cover the silver lenses. For the development of research, the qualitative methodology has been applied, with documentary research and application of structured interviews, approaching the objectives set.