Misinformation in and about science
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Information Science: Science about Information, Misinformation and Disinformation
Participants in interactions (particularly in interactive network media (WWW) aim to change their intentions, goals, decisions and actions – as well as those of other participants in communication. Integrity of information is therefore disturbed; changes are manifested as technical, semantic and social errors and lead to the creation of information, misinformation and disinformation. These beco...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
سال: 2021
ISSN: 0027-8424,1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1912444117