Medeiros, Glicia Marili Azevedo deSilva, Francisco Geoci da2024-03-132024-03-132023-09-22SILVA, Francisco Geoci da. Desinformação tem tratamento: leitura crítica contra a pandemia de Fake News e pós-verdade. 2023. 217f. Orientação: Dra. Glicia Azevedo. Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Centro de Ciências Humanas, Letras e Artes, Programa de Pós-graduação em Estudos da Linguagem. Natal, RN, 2023.https://repositorio.ufrn.br/handle/123456789/57862Society is in a process of accentuated digitalization. As a result, different possibilities for instantaneous interactions in virtual spaces open up for individuals, as well as access to information from different sources. However, it cannot be disregarded that, in addition to the potential benefit, this has led to the rise of new problems, worsened by the great dissemination of content on the Internet and the creation of affinity spaces, the so-called bubbles, which are not very permeable to divergent thoughts. One of the results of this is the creation of groups whose individuals mutually reinforce shared confirmation biases, which are based on intersubjective aspects, such as beliefs, values and ideologies. In this context, the formation of “ecosystems” becomes remarkable, in which fake news and post-truths proliferate with greater intensity precisely because they use these biases to manipulate people's perception of reality, by proposing facts and alternative truths without the ballast of concrete situations. The result of this it’s the destabilization of the public debate on topics of great relevance to Brazilian society, such as the options for coping with the pandemic triggered by SARS-CoV-2, cause of the Covid-19, which effects, as we have seen, were the worsening of public health problems. This situation arose due to the promotion of panacea beliefs and anti-scientific discourses, which led part of the population to engage in risky behaviors at the most sensitive moments of the pandemic. Therefore, and given that fake news and post-truths still continue to negatively influence the direction of the country, we took as an object of study the assumption of principles of critical reading aimed at identifying misinformation conveyed in texts shared on social networks and messaging apps. The general goal is to investigate which principles emerge from the analysis of texts that have disseminated fake news and post-truth about the Covid-19 pandemic and that can inform critical reading to respond to these types of discourses. Our aim is to analyze how the principles emerging from the data can be used to reveal the strategies adopted in the construction of post-truths, and to identify which recurring strategies in the discursive construction of post-truths highlight their articulation with fake news. In order to achieve these purposes, we established an interface, within Applied Linguistics, between Literacy Studies from a sociocultural perspective, the pedagogy of multiliteracies, New Rhetoric and argumentation as an interactional process. As for the corpus data, they were generated based on documentary and bibliographic methodologies, contemplating some farreaching fake news shared on social networks and in groups of messengers, and the analysis of the transmitted speeches was based on the qualitative and interpretive paradigm. Our study identified the emergence of four principles related to critical reading, which can lead to the identification of fake news and post-truths in an actively responsive manner. Furthermore, we have identified eleven strategies that are frequently utilized in the creation and dissemination of false information and post-truths. These strategies can be revealed by implementing the aforementioned principles. At last, according to the research findings, an e-book has been created that includes ten multi-learning workshops aimed at teaching the principles of critical readingAcesso AbertoMultiletramentosLeitura críticaInteração argumentativaFake newsPós-verdadedoctoralThesisCNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES