Comunicar em Saúde em Tempos de Pandemia: Qual o Nosso Papel Enquanto Académicos de Comunicação? Nota Introdutória

Felisbela Lopes; Rita Araújo; Peter Schulz

doi:10.17231/comsoc.40(2021).3703

Authors

Felisbela Lopes Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9227-8998
Rita Araújo Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7124-6057
Peter Schulz Facoltà di comunicazione, cultura e società, Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4281-489X

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17231/comsoc.40(2021).3703

Abstract

There are countless possible discussions related to the spreading of SARS-CoV-2. This issue is dedicated to “Health Communication During a Pandemic” and presents texts that offer us a systemic vision of Communication and Journalism during the pandemic, namely in the first year of SARS-CoV-2.

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Author Biographies

Felisbela Lopes, Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal

Felisbela Lopes is an associate professor with aggregation at the University of Minho, where she has worked since 1994. She was a pro-rector for communication from 2009 to 2014. Her research is focused on television information, health journalism and news sources, and she teaches in the field of journalism. Both her aggregation and PhD work are focused on television information. She is author of several publications in peer-reviewed journals and books, amongst which are Marcelo, Presidente Todos os Dias (Marcelo, Everyday President; Porto Editora, 2019), Jornalista: Uma Profissão Ameaçada (Journalist: A Threatened Profession ; Alêtheia, 2015); Vinte Anos de TV Privada em Portugal (Twenty Years of Private TV in Portugal; Editora Guerra e Paz, 2012); A TV do Real (The Real TV; Minerva, 2008); A TV das Elites (The TV of the Elites; Campo das Letras, 2007) e o Telejornal e o Serviço Público (Television News and Public Service; Minerva, 1999).

Rita Araújo, Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal

Rita Araújo, PhD in communication sciences, is a researcher at Communication and Society Research Centre, University of Minho. Her research interests are health communication and journalism, news sources, and health literacy. She was a visiting scholar at Hunter College, City University School of Public Health, New York, and she was a member of the Portuguese research team of Health Reporting Training Project (2010-3675 HeaRT), financed by the European Commission’s Lifelong Learning Program. She was a researcher within the national project Disease in the News (PTDC/CCI-COM/103886/2008), financed by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia. She is the author and co-author of several publications in peer-reviewed journals and book chapters, and she has presented her research at many national and international conferences.

Peter Schulz, Facoltà di comunicazione, cultura e società, Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland

Peter J. Schulz is professor of communication theories and health communication. In his work, he has sought to bring together thinking from the humanities, social sciences, and information technology to investigate important issues in health communications. His recent work in media effect in the health domain, such as the impact of Internet use on adolescents’ health. He has published more than 190 articles on health communication in peer-reviewed publications. ith Paul Cobley, London, he is an editor of the Series Handbooks of Communication Science (HoCS, 35 volumes, Berlin: DeGruyter & Mouton). Since 2017, he is alsohonorary professor at Australian National University, Canberra.

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