Sistema Regional de Información
en línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina,
el Caribe, España y Portugal

This article presents the study of what hereinafter will be called the rumor as a communication process. The ideas are presented in three parts. First, a series of background researches are presented, studying the rumor as a phenomenon of psychology and communication. Secondly, a lecture of the rumor is presented, connecting the background researches with a therorical and methodological framework that stresses online interaction when a rumor widespreads in Facebook.  Third, a case study is presented, showing the apparition of a child kidnapping rumor in 2015, in el Pedregal de Santo Domingo, in southern Mexico City. At the end, the communication of the rumor is presented as a myriad of collective actions in which people try to produce convincing explanations of the alledged facts. The rhetoric and discursive nature of the process is highlighted.

This research discusses communicational interactions around the neurodiversity movement, from the perspective of autistic women activists who enunciate their protests on social media. To identify these demands, we explored Amanda Paschoal's publications on her Facebook page in 2019, which gathers her own posts and the sharing of posts by other activists seeking recognition of neurodiversity. The theoretical corpus consists of theories about vulnerabilities and gender (Ferrarese, 2011; Butler, 2016), normalization (Foucault, 1999), neurodiversity (Singer, 1999) and the public conversational digital spaces (Marques, 2006) used in civil negotiations regarding the cause of neurodiversity. Finally, we observed how the demand for recognition of the place of autistic women has been exposed, questioned, reviewed, and not only superficially mentioned in a fluid and variable environment as social media.

Through interdisciplinary research involving education and cinema, the article aims to analyze the narrative of the film Central Station (1998), directed by Walter Salles, and identify elements for teaching three-act narratives in a script. The research is classified as descriptive and documentary, with a qualitative approach, and uses the film analysis technique. The main result was the realization that the practice of teaching scripts, from the cinema itself, is an essential issue to encourage discussions, deepen studies and instigate creative ideas. It is also found that Central Station is not a film that only allows the teaching of three-act narrative, but also promotes discussions in the most different spheres, whether to issues related to the Brazilian social scene, senior people, and their relationship with work, culture, and national folklore.

This article surveys the Brazilian academic theses produced in the last ten years (2007-2017), which deal with the educational role of the press in Brazil. The objective is to verify whether or not the media fulfills this function and how the process of building human values occurs or not. The work also wishes to observe the factors that hinder and the production of meanings from the journalistic discourse for the formation of society. For the analysis, 214 studies were selected and only 13 studies were found that somehow met the objective proposed by this article. From this upstream, the article makes a state of the art (panorama of knowledge produced and indexed) and a literature review (research profiles).

This article aims, based on theoretical criteria of nationalism and multilateralism, to analyze the discursive constructions (in comparative perspective) of the leaders of the United States, Brazil, Russia and China in the 75th session of the General Assembly of the Organization of the United Nations, around the epidemic outbreak of SARS-COV-2. It starts with Discourse Analysis, which addresses language as an element of persuasion and transmission of ideological precepts and messages, through which 1017 words from Donald Trump's speech, 2055 from Xi Jinping, 1967 from Vladimir Putin and 2548 from Jair were analyzed. Bolsonaro in a coding matrix according to the postulates of Bajtín (2011) (style, thematic and sub-thematic content) and Van Dijk (2005) (context, ideology, action and power). The results show that there is a two-sided division around the pandemic. On the one hand, Trump and Bolsonaro hide behind a populist discourse to point out external enemies around the health situation, on the other hand, Jinping and Putin insist on the need to cooperate and work together to overcome this situation. However, deepening the analysis focused on self-perception, great differences are evident: Trump presents himself as a defender of peace through force, invites the adoption of nationalism and holds China responsible for the scope of the virus; Jinping defends multilateralism and China's peaceful development model, while he rejects unilateralism; Bolsonaro presents himself as responsible for the food security of 1/6 of the world's population and although he defends multilateralism, he asks that his sovereignty over the Brazilian Amazon be respected; and Putin stresses the need for new approaches to multilateralism and cooperation to achieve new forms of development and integration.

La crisis provocada por la pandemia del COVID-19 trajo consigo un estado de incertidumbre, a nivel mundial, que pudo incidir, en mayor o menor medida, en el grado de bienestar de la población. No en vano se ha hablado del incremento de problemas relacionados con la salud mental durante la pandemia. En el caso particular de El Salvador, el estado de confinamiento, previo al primer caso declarado de contagio, tuvo un alto impacto en el uso de la tecnología como vía para comunicarse, trabajar, entretenerse e informarse. En este contexto, el contenido de las redes sociales en internet, dada la escasa información objetiva disponible y el discurso alarmante por parte del Gobierno, pudo impactar sobre la sensación de bienestar personal. Una encuesta online auto administrada, en la que participaron 641 salvadoreños, permite indagar sobre cómo el acceso a la información disponible en internet durante esos meses afectó a la población. Los resultados apuntan a que efectivamente se produce una relación entre el incremento de consumo de información online relativa al COVID-19 y mayores niveles de malestar personal.

The dissemination of disinformation through digital platforms and messaging applications has increased in recent years and has brought risks to the maintenance of a democratic public space and the preservation of freedom of expression. The business logic of these platforms brings with it a harmful component: by containing internet users in so-called bubbles or echo chambers, it creates a favorable environment for the reaffirmation of positions not open to critical dialogue, which can multiply intolerance and aggravate polarization policy. This article develops a literature review on the subject, covering  academic articles and books, as well as three in-depth interviews, carried out with scholars on the subject, to understand whether this dynamic of digital networks and the consequent climate of polarization that it raises contributes. to leverage far-right cyberpopulism.

This article has the objective of making a historical review of the overwhelming presence of Facebook since its inception, where it is appreciated that it is a social experiment of great influence and impact on the culture of contemporary societies. Its protagonist is Mark Zuckerberg. Facebook is Zuckerberg and Zuckerberg is Facebook. Meta, his latest creation, will also be Zuckerberg. In this way, Zuckerberg intends to transform his empire into a universe, where the risks for the web are enormous. Worse yet, for humans. With this argument, the text is developed in twelve chapters that follow the path that Zuckerberg and his empire have traveled, with successes and notorious legal, economic and media scandals.Despite their philanthropic actions and attempts to accelerate the penetration of the Internet in the world and its connectivity, the image of Zuckerberg and Facebook is inevitably associated with a business where the monopoly, privacy and use of data have always been and are matters for resolve, from its first socio-digital network, FaceMash, to Meta. Now with his Metaverse, he wants to start a new era, leaving behind social networks, also criticized for fake news and hate speech, to open a new space with augmented reality and virtual reality projects. However, governments and users do not forget pending accounts.

Amid the pandemic of the new coronavirus, many actions of the Brazilian federal government have contributed to generate misinformation and worsen the health crisis. This article seeks to understand how the Twitter profiles of the Ministry of Health and the President of the Republic Jair Bolsonaro have been used to spread news without scientific evidence, especially regarding the early treatment of Covid-19. We adopt as methodology the content analysis of the Public Timeline of these profiles, between March/2020 and March/2021. The study of the corpus of 106 tweets points out that these accounts anchor themselves to create a confirmation bias when disseminating misinformation. There was an occurrence of 32% and 67% of misinformation in the publications found, respectively, in the profiles @jairbolsonaro and @minsaúde.  

This article explores the impact that COVID-19 pandemic has had on the way young women inhabit public spaces in urban areas of Mexico. The subject is approached from a gender perspective and based on feminist critical theory; In addition, the article stands on the collection of data on violence against women in public spaces of UN, Women.