Covid-19 syndemic: while death predominated, has journalism fulfilled its purposes?
It was analyzed news stories about deaths from COVID-19 during the two Epidemiological Weeks with the highest mortality rates from the disease in 2020 and 2021. The theoretical-methodological contribution was based on the four main journalistic purposes, with the support of the Public Health field i...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2025 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) |
| Repositorio: | Revista FAMECOS: Mídia cultura e tecnologia |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br:article/46895 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/revistafamecos/article/view/46895 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | COVID-19 Health Communication Journalism Syndemic Comunicación en Salud Periodismo Sindemia Covid-19 Comunicação em Saúde Jornalismo |
| Sumario: | It was analyzed news stories about deaths from COVID-19 during the two Epidemiological Weeks with the highest mortality rates from the disease in 2020 and 2021. The theoretical-methodological contribution was based on the four main journalistic purposes, with the support of the Public Health field in the understanding that COVID-19, in addition to being a pandemic, was configured as a syndemic amidst the (dis)infodemic, far beyond a biomedical problem. The syndemic broadens the concept of pandemic, is aggravated by socio-economic and environmental issues and affects health in disparate ways. Of the 42 articles analyzed, the purpose of mere information predominated (N=40). One news story was intended to monitor power and strengthen democracy. The conclusions indicated that journalistic purposes require critical and interdisciplinary reflection in the face of crises such as COVID-19 and the new prevailing mediatized technosocial reality. |
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