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Controversial ‘Black Legend’ Concept as Misinformation or Disinformation Related to History: Where Do We Go from Here in 21st Century Information Field?

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The controversial concept of ‘Black Legend’ (‘Leyenda Negra’) as a distortion of the history of a nation or other relevant historical actor has been in place since early 20th century (mostly referred to Spain and Hispanic world so far, but potentially in a more general way) [2, 3]. The present paper reviews multidisciplinary the scientifical studies in 21st century related to this concept, so to gather its state of the art, limitations and potential for the information field. From the review, four main suggestions for future research are proposed: 1) Refine the concept with the help of knowledge management theory and stakeholder theory, to enhance its general application in an interdisciplinary environment, 2) Reconsider the term itself, 3) Clearly establish the gaps between present popular culture or established knowledge, and scientific updated knowledge about history, taking into account multidisciplinary methods and sources (including primary documental sources when suitable), 4) Measure and discuss the gaps with the help of automated extraction and analysis of terms applied to selected corpus of digital content, such as Wikipedia, popular literature, scientific literature or multimedia/audiovisual production.

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Cobarsí-Morales, J. (2022). Controversial ‘Black Legend’ Concept as Misinformation or Disinformation Related to History: Where Do We Go from Here in 21st Century Information Field?. In: Smits, M. (eds) Information for a Better World: Shaping the Global Future. iConference 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13192. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96957-8_3

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