The impact of information disorder on deliberative process

Abstract

This study assumes that the deliberative process in the public sphere is negatively influenced by informational disorder. To verify this assumption, a review of the scientific literature on informational disorder in the context of climate change was conducted, following the PRISMA verification method (Page et al., 2021). At the end of the process, we obtained 32 scientific articles published in 2022 and 2023 that address informational disorder and climate change. The studies were analyzed considering the Habermasian approach to deliberation and the public sphere. Our research question is: how does informational disorder affect deliberative processes in the public sphere, especially in issues related to climate change? The results suggest that the disinformation landscape leads to cognitive distortions and misguided decisions, contributing to the fragility of opinions and debates in the public sphere.