Transformações no jornalismo científico brasileiro: a pandemia e seu impacto entre jornalistas e cientistas

Abstract

The journalistic field has been impacted by internal and external transformations, mainly due to the constant techno-social and economic transitions of this century. The covid-19 pandemic changed the programmed path of this study, further highlighting the current unstable and dynamic moment experienced in society and in the communicational and informational sphere. Scientific and health journalism, in this sense, plays a leading role in parallel to the importance of scientific dissemination in the country, that is, the relevance of scientific public communication for the population is notable. Thus, the research sought to reflect and analyze the reconfigurations and resignifications that are being applied in the announced context, from the perception of actors who are part of this process: scientists, as information sources, news promoters, scientific disseminators and digital influencers, as well as journalists specialized in science in the country. The research used a qualitative methodology based on in-depth interviews, which were performed and analyzed following the Multiple Triangulation Method conducted through the stages of triangulation of narratives, theories and contexts so that, finally, a construction-synthesis could be performed. It is concluded that the pandemic accelerated and intensified transformations already underway in the relationship between science sources and journalists, evidencing the adhesion of social networks, especially Twitter, by these actors in the construction of guidelines, in the discovery and identification of new sources, in the realization of relational circuits between scientists and with journalists, which results in a feeling, on the part of the interviewees, of attempts to form a journalistic-scientific ecosystem that can generate quality scientific information for the population, however, there is still much to be done, to be built so that an information ecosystem in balance is practiced in Brazil