Como o(a)s estudantes de cursos de TI estão se informando? : um estudo de caso na UFC Campus Russas

Abstract

Disinformation is the term most used to designate what is popularly known as fake news. This phenomenon has become a major problem throughout society, its rapidly spreading nature is mainly used through social networks. A resource that until then has been used as a strategy by groups to obtain their own advantages and gains. This work seeks to capture an insight into a specific audience, students of Information Technology courses at the Federal University of Ceara on the Russas campus. Through this research, we seek to identify which technologies these students use to find out about news in general, discover whether they use fact-checking agencies, and also understand why and on which topics they think they misleading information is produced. Through the data acquired, it is intended to demonstrate analyzes around the subject, and highlight the fundamental role that the aforementioned agencies are currently playing, despite the fact that they are not yet well known by the population.