The Covid-19 pandemic and its information crisis

the information science response

Authors

  • Yves-François Le Coadic Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36517/2525-3468.ip.v6iespecial.2021.78014.9-23

Keywords:

humanités digitales, information covidienne, negacionisme informationnelle

Abstract

In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, information science is facing a number of new challenges related to information crises for which it was not prepared. Who says global crisis, economic crisis, energy crisis, climate change, etc ... says information crisis, crisis characterized by a drastic increase in the amount of information, by an information epidemic ie an infodemic and by news and numerous misconduct of information practices. The health crisis linked to the COVID-19 pandemic is no exception to the rule: infodemic of good medical and health information but also infodemic of bad information, good informational practices but also numerous misconduct. Accustomed to the register of scientific truth, information science must confront the register of post-truth and conspiracy that seems to characterize our current societies. Information-suspicion, information-denunciation, information-lies, it is, for the science of information, a hardly encouraging new horizon that it should be able to master without problem by mobilizing its arsenal of concepts, methods, laws, of well-established models and theories by preserving and developing the joyous horizon of information-truth.

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Published

2021-12-29

How to Cite

LE COADIC, Yves-François. The Covid-19 pandemic and its information crisis: the information science response. Informação em Pauta, [S. l.], v. 6, n. especial, p. 9–23, 2021. DOI: 10.36517/2525-3468.ip.v6iespecial.2021.78014.9-23. Disponível em: http://periodicos.ufc.br/informacaoempauta/article/view/78014. Acesso em: 18 jul. 2024.