Comunicação pública da ciência e ativismo social midiatizado no contemporâneo: um estudo a partir de @dexametajohnny

Abstract

In the field of communication, with a focus on the public communication of science - which we are focusing on in this work - our main interest is to observe the emergence of communication processes that can reveal, establish and promote presences, appearances, latencies, reveal historicities and singularities in time, which helps us as scientists to observe the contemporary contexts in which we live. Among the possible contemporary contexts, the public emergence of Jônatas F. Barros caught our attention, since he is a doctor who, as a black student, entered the medical course at the University of Brasilia (UNB) through quota policies in 2018. Throughout the period of his study (and even today), Jônatas has used media practices to produce scientific material about science and its relationship with marginalized bodies, giving appearance to mainly racial issues within the medical sciences. It is in the midst of this scenario that this dissertation builds its main research problem: understanding how social activism promotes processes of public communication of science in contemporary mediatized contexts. The research is divided into three chapters that correspond to each specific objective of the dissertation I) to understand how social activists mobilize media competencies to promote the public communication of science; II) to understand how social activists promote/institute a gesture of historicities based on the intensification of scientific pasts in the production of the public communication of science; III) to examine how mediatized social activism in the context of the public communication of science aims to update the common through dissent. Through the inidiciary paradigm (Braga, 2016), adopted as the methodology for this dissertation, the study's main results are a look at Jônatas' production of scientific and social content as emergencies that become possible from a context of institutional strengthening of the humanities and the expansion of quota policies - promoting dissensual gestures in public science communication spaces in order to provoke the configuration of a strong struggle around the relationship between science and society, especially from a decolonial perspective - which ends up exposing modernity and its wounds, with a focus, among other motivations, on promoting a discussion about racialities within the field of medicine and institutions. Such emergencies only become possible through the mobilization of media skills, mobilized by this student, to build processes of circulation of scientific knowledge - knowledge that reveals temporal perspectives and historicities, in that it not only points to a future of its uses, but above all to the opening up of violated pasts.