Virtual Communities of Interest: Epistemological Problems of Education in the Post-Truth era and the Post-Covid19 Digital Society

Abstract

Digital society has become a key factor in educational processes, since a large part of these take place in the digital environment and are influenced by several digital tools. These processes, however, have suffered a disruption based on the use that various actors have given to these digital tools, through which informative elements that seek to change the ideology of the subjects are generated and disseminated. Part of these actors are found in virtual communities (such as forums or internet boards) that function as communities of practice, where knowledge is shared and transformed to spread this type of ideologies that seeks to influence society but that may have an effect on (through a kind of epistemological confusion) and even substituting the educational process, which becomes especially relevant in the post-Covid19 digital society.