Comunicação comunitária e pandemia no sertão do Piauí

Abstract

It is almost commonplace to talk about the COVID-19 pandemic in our lives. We have been directly or indirectly affected by the effects of Sars-CoV-2. We have lost friends, relatives, and loved ones, and our right to come and go has often been denied as a way to prevent further contagion of this disease. Two years after it was declared a pandemic, we are still feeling its consequences. Everything indicates that we will feel it for much longer, mainly because COVID-19 has caused one of the greatest crises ever experienced and felt in the entire history of humanity. We have no doubt that the consequences of all this will bring about a historic division of the Era on our planet, as our ways of seeing the world, living in it, being social beings, and even in small everyday acts have changed. We have become less collectively sociable and have had to return to living with restrictions on movement and the greatest social, economic, and political crisis of the century. This book involves 18 authors. Of these, two are teachers (those who wrote this introductory section) and 16 are students. These are students who experienced the pandemic period with everyday problems, some experiencing grief, others with the shadow of personal unemployment or unemployment of family and friends, some dealing with motherhood or fatherhood, others with broken loves and some with the hardships of lack of connections in a world that theoretically was supposed to be more connected to the Internet. The book is divided into seven texts, each one designed to reflect a social group from the Sertão do Piauí. The texts are scientific articles. Most of them were written in a space of thought, action, correction and closure over more than a year.