From left to right: Kenneth Camargo, Marie Santini, Paulo Vaz and Simone Kropf | Photo: Raquel Portugal
This Thursday (10/18), the director of the Internet and Social Network Studies Laboratory at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (NetLab UFRJ), Marie Santini, participated in the seminar “What remains from the Pandemic? Science, Health and Communication in Contemporary Brazil”, put on by the Postgraduate Program in Health Information and Communication (PPGICS / ICICT) of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FioCruz).
In her speech, the professor discussed the study ‘Vertical Information: Comparative Analysis of Communication and Strategies during the COVID-19 pandemic’, the main topic of which is the disinformation propagated by globaly relevant agents and the effect this has in the situation of eintense chaos in public health, caused by the coronavirus.
Other professors taking part in the seminar were: Kenneth Camargo, from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) and member of the Covid-19 Research Roadmap Social Science Working Group / World Health Organization; Simone Kropf, from the Postgraduate Program in Health Information and Communication at FioCruz (PPGICS / ICICT); and Paulo Vaz, from the Postgraduate Program in Communication and Culture at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), providing mediation.
The relationships between Science, Health and Communication in post-pandemic Brazil were highlighted in the debate. Questions were raised as to the role of experts and science and health institutions in contexts of health crisis, as well as the challenges posed by misinformation and its impacts on public health and communication policies.
Coordinated by Kátia Lerner, researcher at the Communication and Health Laboratory of the Institute for Scientific and Technological Communication and Information in Health (LACES / ICICT), the event is part of the “Obstacles to Risk Communication in the COVID-19 Pandemic” project. COVID-19: Infodemic, Disinformation, Algorithms and Mistrust in Contexts of Political Polarization and Crisis of Expert Systems”, financed by the CAPES Public Notice - Impacts of the Pandemic, also in partnership with the postgraduate programs in Communication at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), Federal University of Pará (UFPA) and Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS), in addition to PPGICS / FioCruz.
The event was open to the public and broadcast live on YouTube.