La crisi del credibile : seguire l’attualità nel nuovo medioevo comunicativo

Abstract

To “follow the news” : what does this mean today, not just as consumption of informations but as sociosemiotic practice ? The article defines two opposite modalities : information as provided by traditional generalist media, which was based on a one-directional and hierarchical programming, and that difunded by social networks — a fragmented flux ruled by algorithmic processes in which everybody addresses everybody. The latter modality having
contaminated traditional media, the disappearance of gatekeepers and preventive filtering of the news marks the end of the fiduciary pact that used to guarantee the credibility of the information sources, entailing theregy disinformation and an illusion of transparency.