Production about post truth in Information Science

a study carried out at BRAPCI

Abstract

Objective: to address the scientific productions on post-truth in the field of IC through articles stored in BRAPCI, aiming at the delimitation of thematic categories.
Methodology: its main activity is exploratory research in order to analyze a familiarity between post-truth and the field of IS. As for the middle activity of the research, it is a bibliographic review in the sense of carrying out a dialogue with authors who study post-truth, both in CI and in science in general. For data analysis, the article uses content analysis through the construction of categories.
Results: there is an ascending production on post-truth in CI registered in BRAPCI which constituted the following categories: post-truth and misinformation; post-truth and fake news; post-truth, disinformation and fake news; post-truth and Information Science; post-truth and librarianship; post-truth and truth; post-truth and information; post-truth and politics; and post-truth and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Conclusions: the level of productions on post-truth is growing from a quantitative point of view (each year more productions are established in journals) and qualitative (each year it is possible to observe more authorships and more approaches on post-truth) applied in the established categories, being those that contemplated more productions “intersectional category” that combines a set of productions that appear in more than one category, “post-truth, disinformation and fake news” and “post-truth and Information Science”, which expresses, by on the one hand, the strong correlation between post-truth and misinformation and fake news and, on the other hand, a great effort to conceive IC as a field of knowledge committed to dealing with post-truth issues.