O Eu Jornalista contra a pandemia: a Rede Piauí Sem Covid

Abstract

This work is the result of a monograph for the conclusion of an undergraduate course in Journalism, which aimed to show the faces and interfaces of Journalism in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, in addition to emphasizing the communicational perspectives, the ‘’new normals’’ in which Communication and Journalism have adapted to keep the world updated and informed about the pandemic. The work and journalistic and communicational actions to combat the COVID-19 pandemic in Piauí, highlighted by the Solidarity Network @PiauiSemCovid on Instagram in the second wave of the pandemic in the State, are also analyzed. The problematization revolves around the following question: “how can Journalism act in information through virtual networks and what are the consequences of this process in the second wave of the pandemic in the State?”. The specific objectives are: to experience the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, mainly from the second wave in Piauí, in a journalistic way, through the Network @PiauiSemCovid; to highlight points and counterpoints of this work through personal experience; to analyze the consequences of this work while it is being carried out; to show the journalistic and social consequences of the information process of informational mediations through the tool that is the @PiauiSemCovid Network. The methodology is carried out through participant research, through the netnographic experience, with direct intervention of the subject-object of study, with field research and use of metrics from the @PiauiSemCovid Network on Instagram from the second wave of the pandemic in the State, which occurred shortly after the election period of 2020, with the beginning of the second half of 2021 as the final cut-off point for the research corpus. It is noted that Journalism, in its own modifications and in this emblematic period, has shown itself to be open to new languages ​​and experiments. This work, The Journalist Me in the Pandemic, brought consequences not only in our training in understanding the faces and interfaces of informational mediations, but also in showing how much understanding and being aware of this theme represented the hope for better days and actions to build a more just world.