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The importance of activism is essential to the development of different aspects of a society. With the Era of Information, this social dynamic had to adapt to the changes, giving rise to cyber activism. This paper analyzes the presence of cyber activism in societies and how this dynamic partially modified the strategy of some social movements, such as feminism. Cyber feminism practiced in Latin America is also analyzed and how feminist collectives, groups, and associations in that region, which have pages and active profiles on Facebook, organize themselves to practice cyber feminism, and how it affects and helps women in these regions, since its virtual pages function as bridges of support for women in situation of vulnerability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

What is ‘communication’ in communication scholarly journals? This question arises from a practical issue: when one chooses to write about ‘communication’ and submit it to review, what guidelines are provided by the journals? What articles might be placed under this label? This paper examines the editorials, presentation and ‘focus and scope’ section of 53 Brazilian communication journals in order to outline their definition of ‘communication’. Main findings suggest that communication is presented (1) as an interface area, sometimes nearly overlapping the whole of the Humanities; (2) as a field defined by media studies, its production, messages and reception; (3) as a troublesome concept without defined boundaries. These findings are framed on a communication epistemology perspective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper purpose is to address theories/methodologies that recognize themselves as cartographies that deal with practices related to topics of special interest for social communication researchs, such as processes of production of social representations, subjectivities and visibilities. To this end, firstly, it addresses challenges and issues related to currently practices of engaged and transdisciplinary research from a Latin American perspective, especially from Brazil. Then, we go through three different cartographic approaches, namely: cartography of desires; social cartography and; cartography of the action, in order to fertilize and diversify, including in terms of being more democratic and ethical, 'social communication' or 'media studies' researchs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to analyze the first false messages composition on the new coronavirus and Covid-19 that circulated in Brazil. The analysis problematize the relationships between form and content that give legitimacy to the messages and how they are inserted in the class struggle. We used the contributions of the Circle, especially Volóchinov, on the nature of language associated with contributions from the field of historical and dialectical materialism, to analyze 11 messages, two of which were analyzed deeply. The results indicated that false communications are inserted in the class struggle seeking to manipulate the interlocutor and they appropriated and mobilized elements, mainly from the spheres of Science and Journalism, to give the effect of credibility and legitimacy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Considering the trajectory of Eliseo Verón and its influence on studies of me-dia discourse, this paper aims to observe their impacts in the field of television studies in Brazil. This research is based on the papers published in the National Intercom Congress. By analyzing the articles presented in thematic group called "TV Journalism" and "TV & Video" in the last six years it is possible to verify the importance of the author's works as a reference. It was observed the author's concepts, approaches and bibliography used in these papers. As a context for the analysis, we present an overview of the developed theory, while focusing on the basic concepts that can be used as a methodology for the analysis of television products. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We present a reflective and factual paper, in an emergency structure, which starts from previous investigations on the network communication of the environmental movement, and from socioenvironmental media activism, to discuss a scenario of attacks direct to the work carried out by environmental organizations. We propose a theoretical discussion with an exploratory research on the possibilities of media activism, based in the communicative practices of two social actors in this environmental field, Greenpeace Brasil and Instituto Socioambiental. We conclude that there are reactive answers to government affront; they use different media, social networks, languages and cyberactivist resources, but with superfical reach in public debate, which signals that need to articulate institutional action with social mobilization. So, in addition to understanding the transformations of activisms, we rehearsed the manifesto: what remains for socioenvironmental media activism? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

En este artículo, analizamos publicidades de las dos emisoras de televisión abierta brasileña de mayor audiencia (TV Globo y TV Record) que presentaron cuestiones relacionadas a la ciencia en sus narrativas. Las piezas fueron sometidas a un protocolo de análisis de contenido y procesadas por el software de análisis de modelos mixtos, el QDAMiner. Nuestros resultados muestran que TV Record transmitió más publicidad con enfoque científico que la TV Globo y hubo énfasis en asuntos de salud y de estética. La ciencia fue utilizada como forma de legitimar los productos y las marcas, de manera a contribuir al convencimiento de los telespectadores. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper examines the scope of educommunication as a possibility for clarification on nanotechnology through comics. Nanotechnology is permeated by uncertainties about environmental and social risks and impacts, as well as the absence of a public debate on implications and controversies, even with the potential benefits. Therefore, we discussed aspects of education by comics in order to assess how complex issues can be addressed to a wider audience. Methodologically, a qualitative analysis is applied from the descriptive method to verify how nanotechnology is worked. An interpretation is made of the approaches adopted in the comics and their potentials are examined to educate on the effects and consequences of nanotechnology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper aims to bring close the issue of climate change and the academic research on Public Relations. It is anchored in the perspective of Critical Public Relations, which takes as its basis the exploration of the impacts of this activity on the social processes of meaning creation and power struggles. In order to understand how Public Relations research can help the reflections about climate change, two bibliographic reviews are carried out: the first exploring interfaces between public opinion and climate change, the second approaching a literature that denounces the use of public relations practices by actors and corporations who try to deny the existence of global warming. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses the silencing of voices in news production in Posadas, Argentina (Primera Edición and Territorio Digital) and Porto Alegre, Brazil, (Zero Hora and Correio do Povo), and investigates the media coverage of 2003 until 2014, in relation to the construction of two hydroelectric plants on the border between both countries, Brazil and Argentina, on the Uruguay river. The analysis indicates the absence of the riverside dwellers' voices, who are affected by the project. Finally, the article stand up for the idea journalism makes a great contribution to the discussion of environmental complexity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper studies the postgraduate academic field stricto sensu and those theses and dissertations which aimed Mercosur as its research focus. The techniques used were: data analysis at archives of Alexandre Gusmão Foundation and Research Institute of International Relations (FUNAG/IPRI), bibliographic search y document analysis. We infer that, in twenty-five years of existence of Mercosur, academic production in communications was modest, due to: i) the lack of institutional incentives for research; ii) some indifference towards debates on democratization of communications; and iii) the continuance of traditional diplomacy by governments, which hampers the monitoring of the negotiations and obstructs spaces for social participation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes a brief analysis of the Brazilian film O Anjo da Noite (The Angel Of The Night, Walter Hugo Khouri, 1974). The analysis seeks to understand how this film, inspired by the Gothic literature tradition of the eighteenth century and in the classic The Turn of the Screw (Henry James, 1898), conducted a sophisticated reflection on sexual and social anxieties that challenged the Brazilian society at the time. The work analyzes the dialogue undertaken by Khouri's movie with the discursive operations of gothic horror fiction, suggesting that the director used that style (emerged during the decadence of the Ancien Régime, in the eighteenth century) to represent Brazilian social tensions in the 1970s. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to understand the gap of cultural policy of the years 1980-1990, called time of transition, and the cultural and political ideas of Celso Furtado, minister of culture from 1986 to 1988. How we move from a forged cultural policy during the dictatorship to another? What are the ideas that guided Celso Furtado in this change to a democratic opening situation? In this sense, the cultural policy implemented by Celso Furtado, particularly the film policy, by presenting itself as a unique landmark, is the primary focus of research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is a reflection on the coverage of the death of former Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez in the four major Brazilian weekly magazines devoted to news (CartaCapital, Época, IstoÉ and Veja). The study intends to think over media trends and their marks in a broader communication context, considering how such an event has been approached by the above-mentioned printed media, instead of problematizing on the coverage about the death of Hugo Chávez. The intention is to observe the composite built by Brazilian newsmagazines related to a great event and at the same time to explain how such magazines are constantly "happenning" due to their practices. Thus, they have a particular behavior when covering public people deaths. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we seek to discuss theoretical and epistemological issues that pervade the research with connecting subjects. Thus, through deep reflection strategies, logic and research procedures of several authors of reference on the subject of research in receptivity media, observing the need to consider the relevance of the dialogic and procedural communication process of historical subjects in the context of social and contemporary changes. Thus, viewing the notion of communicative citizenship, as a relevant dimension to extend the understanding of the dynamics and practices of social actors and understand the new media scenarios made in today's societies, such as Latin America. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of the paper is from a collection of the main classifications report, reflect on the genus, which has as its main narrative forming element. Through bibliographic research, it was verified that the report is one of the most flexible format in journalistic practice, which can be checked com the example presented here. That is related to the characteristic of the narrative constructed by the demands of the topics addressed, the positioning of the speaker and the objectives pursued in relation com reader, added to the narrative possibilities offered by gender. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deals with the concept of cities as privileged spaces for communication (Reguillo-Cruz, 2007). We propose a discussion, based on the empirical scenarios studied, on the interactions and dynamics of space constitution in Amazonian cities where there are wooden bridges, called marombas, which reconnect flooded areas in the situation of rising river waters. The marombas indicate daily communication processes and specify the relationship between men and nature. We understand, based on França (2006) and Braga (2011), interactions as processes in which people build social and cultural habits. As a methodological perspective, we stand for the approach of the moving cartography as a fundamental way for understanding the Amazonian communicational experiences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to discuss how, in contemporary, everyday life in the city is crossed by the cyberspace, which ushered in new flows, affections and allegories, particularly with the advent of digital social networks. In this cut, we question how narratives about the city of Rio de Janeiro on the social network Facebook publicize relationships they establish tuned sense of production to the company's characteristics in network, where the paradox of mobility is configured in conjunction with the mediated representation of space and experience of urban life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article focuses on the initial ideas of Luiz Beltrão about folkcommunication (1967) and discusses the interpretation about the theoretical basis of this field is the functionalism. For this research was chosen a literature review and the reading of works sources (in the sense suggested by Ruiz, 2002), to verify the bonds between folkcommunication and functionalism (or if they even exist). After the examination of the thesis that led to folkcommunication and of the characteristics in the paper works of the main functionalist authors mentioned in the Beltrão's thesis, the results point that the hypothesis that the folkcommunication is related to functionalism does not hold. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This text seeks to determine how journalists of the largest Paraná (southern Brazil) newspaper, Gazeta do Povo, perceive, within its daily production routines, the subject of climate change and its possible risks. This paper aims to verify how the news production on the issue is understood by journalists responsible for writing or editing news on climate change in the context of a regional/local newspaper. Among the findings, it was observed that there is an understanding, by journalists, about the relevance of media approach to the subject, although the logic of coverage routines and the complexity of the issue do not allow further deepening, especially in relation to risks inherent in the environmental phenomenon. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyses historic precedents on science divulgation through an approach on the discourse of La Propaganda Rural, Uruguayan transnational circulation magazine. The paper aims at understanding the senses linked to discipline in scientific divulgation. The analysis of utterances published in the 1909 editions gives evidence of the prescriptive formation, recognised by the regularity of two interdependent views: the usefulness of scientific and technological knowledge and the regulated procedural applicability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents reflections on the network mode of production of Television America Latina (TAL) and its role in strengthening public and cultural televisions of this Region, in the diffusion of this culture and the adoption of an alternative or resistant stance faced with a historical situation of global trade dominance on regional television production. Methodologically we start from the perspective of the model of culture circuit to propose the circuit of TAL and, from there, outline the steps necessary for the understanding of the cultural representation process in this Network television. Specifically we focus the forms of TV co-production and its mediations as a network, captured through fieldwork in TAL's Annual Meeting 2014. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As soon as a technology is implemented in a culture, it is possible to observe social uses that were not intended by the inventors or producers of that technology. People create strategies to take advantage of the new resource. Using social interaction theories and an ethnographic approach in the natural setting of cell phone use in Brazil, we observed how people use the mobile phone technology for interpersonal communication. This paper addresses three subversive uses of mobile technology, namely, i) strategies of mobile phone coding; ii) SIM card management; and iii) criminal uses of mobile phones. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]