Desinformação versus democracia: as relações do jornalismo, da ciência e da saúde na promoção de uma vida democrática

João José Figueira da Silva

doi:10.29397/reciis.v16i2.3347

Disinformation versus democracy: the relationships between journalism, science and health in the promotion of a democratic life

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João José Figueira da Silva Universidade de Coimbra, Faculdade de Letras. Coimbra, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2344-9789

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https://doi.org/10.29397/reciis.v16i2.3347

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Communication, Information, Media, Social networks, Portugal.

Abstract

In an interview to Reciis, João Figueira comments on his work, for more than 20 years, as a journalist in some of the main Portuguese newspapers and on his path as a researcher, considering it an extension and a passion for journalism. The researcher talks about an issue that he categorically says is not new: the misinformation. However, he specifies it on contemporaneity, considering the way misinformation circulates, given the emergence of online social networks. Contents spread in a faster and more fragmented way by an economy of emotions. Values and beliefs override evidences. João Figueira claims that journalistic practice has followed the same dynamics of online social networks, losing its importance and making him question: “Why do people want the news? How important are the news in people’s lives?”. Journalism, health and scientific research are strongly coupled up to democratic governments. The contemporary world poses us a great challenge: a democratic life. João Figueira is professor of Journalism at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Coimbra.

Author Biography

João José Figueira da Silva, Universidade de Coimbra, Faculdade de Letras. Coimbra,

Doutorado em Letras pela Universidade de Coimbra.

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Silva, J. J. F. da. (2022). Disinformation versus democracy: the relationships between journalism, science and health in the promotion of a democratic life. Revista Eletrônica De Comunicação, Informação & Inovação Em Saúde, 16(2). https://doi.org/10.29397/reciis.v16i2.3347

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Dossier Care-in-interaction: practices, knowledge, and reflexivity in health (v. 18, n. 2) Apr./Jun. 2024.

October 27, 2023

A concept inseparable from communication, interaction is a constitutive part of the communicative act. While broad and guided by different approaches, human communication interactional studies have the common analytical challenge of observing the joint construction of utterances and their actional values in the microecological environment in which they occur, which implies looking emically, that is, starting from within, and considering the reflective processes of the people participating in that human communication interaction (Rodrigues, 2021).

This dossier, whose title mobilizes the care-in-interaction concept, addresses health care from an interactionist perspective (Ostermann; Meneghel, 2012), with particular interest in research with a multimodal focus to articulate, in a finely detailed descriptive work, speech and body studies (Mondada, 2018).

The expression care-in-interaction is generated by a common matrix in Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis (EMCA) (Loder; Jung, 2008), an investigative current originating from North American sociology, derived from Harold Garfinkel’s Ethnomethodology, which has been embraced globally in multiple disciplinary fields (Watson; Gastaldo, 2015), and which has brought speech-and-the-body-in-interaction as an object of study in the last ten years.

Analyses are data driven and can mobilize and articulate other theoretical currents, which focus on multiple objects and events, namely, polyphony and Bakhtinian dialogism, the Austinian analysis of speech acts, the Goffmanian face work and politeness, contextualization prosodic cues, and justifications and the theory of argumentation in language.

From the perspective of ethnomethodological and conversation analysis, care-in-interaction studies open up a range of investigations into interactions in different environments using several resources. As Harvey Sacks points out in his classical study of telephone conversations recorded by a suicide prevention center in the United States of America and, therefore, mediated by a technological device for distance communication, research whose collected material does not include all multimodal resources available in face-to-face interactions bring about challenges that reinforce the great analytical potential of looking inward, considering the natural and artificial devices of mediation to the world.

Two initial questions instigated this dossier: a) How is interactivity being operated in different environments and settings, especially regarding health topics? b) In what ways can microanalytical approaches to studies on interactions contribute to understanding social processes?

We encourage contributions from authors from different social, human, and health sciences fields – with particular emphasis on communication studies, language, anthropology, social work, and sociology – for thematic sub-axes such as:

Epistemic asymmetries, situated cognition, intercomprehension, and emotions-in-interaction;
Microanalytical studies of conversational frameworks of social and health intervention;
Telepresence interactions, mediated by multimodal computers (microphone, speaker, webcam, and screen);
Interactional frameworks of joint research and self-confrontation practices in the training of health and social professionals;
Participation of citizens in devices for joint analysis of service and care practices (citizen science);
Atypical interactions in their interdisciplinary dimensions of social studies of disability.

Guest editors: Marcia Rodrigues Lisboa (Oswaldo Cruz Foundation – Laboratory of Phenomenology, Ethnomethodology and Conversational Analysis of Social Clusivity – Lab-FEACC_CLISSIS) and Michel Binet (Universidade Lusíada – Laboratory of Phenomenology, Ethnomethodology and Conversational Analysis of Social Clusivity – Lab-FEACC_CLISSIS)

Submission deadline: until February 20, 2024.

Publication estimate: v. 18, no. 2, April/June 2024.

When submitting the work, please use the category Dossier Care-in-interaction: practices, knowledge, and reflexivity in health.

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