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The COVID-19 pandemic forced different countries to implement new strategies to reduce its spread and mitigate its economic and social effects. Given this scenario, this study aims to compare government incentives granted by Brazil and Chile, in response to the economic effects of COVID-19. This qualitative and exploratory research uses indirect (bibliographic) and secondary documentation with data collected from the websites of the state governments in each country, between 2020 and 2021. The Iramuteq 2.0 software for data analysis. Based on Factorial Correspondence Analysis using a dendrogram, the study analyzes the incentives launched by: laws, decrees, contingency policies, guidelines in booklets, applications, and combating fake news, classified into 4 (four) categories: (i) tax and labor, (ii) actions on social networks, (iii) benefits programs and (iv) legalization. The results show that Chile offered more incentives than Brazil, highlighting the helping program from large companies to small ones, On the other hand, Brazil conducted more campaigns to combat fake news. In the light of the communication theory (CT), the findings highlighted the advances of governments in the expansion of digital channels (social networks, web pages and applications) to inform citizens and companies. During this period State Governments learned new insights to outline new strategies to stimulate the economy, to promote learning and increase the capacity to lead in contexts of crises and pandemic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews the main concepts and dilemmas illustrating the debate on the connections between media and politics. Considering that experiences in Political Communication are manifested in unique ways in different democracies and scientific cultures, we also examine how historical, social, and political aspects are intertwined with the development of the field in Brazil – reinforcing the need for de-westernizing media studies. Although we do not expect to exhaust state of the art, we hold that this is a helpful discussion since it outlines the agendas and trends of a specialty that has become more complex, tackling the question of to what extent widely accepted concepts are able to explain the roles of the media in Global South societies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In spite of all knowledge stored by communication scholarship during last century, the media challenge remains as an open question for society decision makers both at the north and the south of America. The author tries to understand the enigma by redeeming ideas shaped by early scholars that inquired media context like Robert Park in USA and Barbosa Lima Sobrinho in Brazil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]