Fake news e semiformação: uma análise a partir da teoria crítica de Theodor Adorno

Abstract

This completion of course work aims to analyze the relationship between the fake news disseminated on digital social media and the concept of semiformation, a developed concept based on the critical philosophy of the German philosopher Theodor Adorno, to show how fake news can produce the phenomenon of alienation correlated with the regression of the intellect, by different factors characterized in the Adorno’s literature. For that, a qualitative research was carried out on the phenomenon of fake news to bring up the debate and present the contradictions evidenced by technological advances, access to the internet and social networks, as integral parts of the culture industry. Research has shown that the advent of social networks has changed the way human beings relate to each other and how they become vehicles for disseminating fake news and, in the same way, as semiformation, as regressions of consciousness eliminates the individuals capacity of critical reflection, making them unable to identify the truth and lies in a discourse. The study presented the social contradictions present in capitalist society, finding that fake news added to the regression process of the intellect produces alienated individuals who perpetuates the basic conditions that could lead to the barbarism.