Revista Eco-Pós

Alfabetização Midiática por uma sociedade mais inclusiva e sustentável

Julian McDougall — 2025-06-19

Neste artigo, defendemos a alfabetização midiática como um elemento essencial para a saúde do ecossistema de comunicação, mapeando o campo para uma teoria da mudança. Este artigo compartilha um elemento do projeto mais amplo, pelo qual a teoria da mudança foi utilizada para avaliar a última década de intervenções do letramento midiático para o governo do Reino Unido e em colaboração com o regulador britânico Ofcom. Argumentamos que as pessoas que utilizam o seu letramento midiático para obter consequências positivas podem melhorar a saúde do ecossistema, mas, por meio desta pesquisa, vemos a necessidade de o campo da alfabetização midiática reivindicar menos para mudar mais.

Letramento em Ecomídia

Antonio López — 2025-06-19

Este artigo apresenta o campo emergente do letramento^[1] em ecomídia, que explora as complexas relações entre mídia, tecnologias de informação e comunicação (TIC) e sustentabilidade ambiental. O letramento ecomidiático investiga tanto as consequências ecológicas dos sistemas e tecnologias (“pegadas ecológicas”) [“ecomedia footprint"] quanto o papel da mídia na formação da consciência ambiental, crenças, narrativas e ações (seu mindset ou sua “mentalidade ecológica”) [“ecomedia mindprint”]. Esta introdução fornece uma visão geral dos principais conceitos, estruturas analíticas e objetivos de aprendizagem do letramento em ecomídia, demonstrando sua relevância em diversas disciplinas acadêmicas e seu potencial para promover práticas midiáticas mais sustentáveis e equitativas.

Studies on media literacy:

Egle Muller Spinelli — 2025-06-19

The lack of consensus in translating the term media literacy raises concerns about the best way to approach it conceptually. Considering the intersections of the fields of Communication and Education from the perspective of Communication and its theoretical and epistemological construction, a bibliographic review was conducted using CAPES journal database. Articles with titles containing the main terms used to refer to media literacy were sought, aiming to understand how these terms are applied, their theoretical foundations, the methodological procedures used in the research, and their connections with reception studies. The main findings reveal the use of different terminologies, often without theoretical justification and treated as synonyms; the predominance of international authors in the conceptual framework; and the prevalence of bibliographic research and case studies as the main methodological approaches.

Alfabetização midiática

Nathan Nguangu Kabuenge — 2025-06-19

This article aims to conduct a systematic literature review (SLR) of works published from 2016 to 02/07/2025 on Media Literacy (ML). The databases used were the "CAPES Journal Portal" and "SciELO," with the descriptor "media literacy." Based on the exclusion and inclusion criteria, nine articles were selected for the SLR. The analyses highlight the following focuses of the studies: the importance for teacher training, conscious media consumption, combating misinformation, the exercise of citizenship, and a feminist reading of the media. Additionally, the terms ML and media and information literacy (MIL) are used with nearly similar meanings to encompass all dimensions of media. The results emphasize the importance of ML for the formation of critical and participatory citizens in a media-mediated society and the need for a joint effort by different social actors to implement ML in both school and non-school contexts.

Letramento Midiático, Algorítmico e Inteligência Artificial

Raquel Timponi — 2025-06-19

The rise of generative artificial intelligence (GAI) impacts academic research, redefining the search, organization, and analysis of knowledge. Tools such as ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Consensus, and Research Rabbit function as intelligent agents, automating information curation. However, algorithmic mediation demands new competencies, particularly in media and algorithmic literacy. This theoretical essay proposes a reflection on how intelligent agents transform the role of researchers, shifting research from a model based on active source selection to a system curated by opaque algorithms. It argues that the development of media and algorithmic literacy is essential for the critical use of these tools. Furthermore, this article serves as a theoretical foundation for an ongoing empirical study, whose results will be published later, expanding the understanding of GAI's effects on academic knowledge production.

O Letramento Midiático e a Curricularização da Extensão na Pós-graduação em Comunicação

Roseane Andrelo — 2025-06-19

The article aims to highlight the importance of the debate on the curricularization of postgraduate extension, especially in the area of communication. We used as a case study the work carried out in the discipline “Media literacy and the management of media knowledge: from consumer to citizen”, taught to students of the Postgraduate Program in Communication at the São Paulo State University “Júlio de Mesquita Filho” (Unesp), Bauru-SP campus. The proposal is considered relevant because it is in its second year of application, presenting favorable results, linking the issue of media literacy to extension practices in postgraduate teaching. The methodological path starts from participatory research, in an action-reflection approach, in addition to bibliographical research on media literacy. The results highlighted that the curricularization of extension should not be limited to the existence of subjects, but also contribute to new teaching-learning procedures in higher education, bringing to light reflections on the social impact promoted by actions carried out in postgraduate studies.

Keywords: Communication; Curriculum; Extension; Media literacy; Postgraduate.

Trends in Socioenvironmental Educommunication

Felipe Saldanha — 2025-06-19

This article aims to identify the most recent trends in social intervention practices in Socioenvironmental Educommunication and the conceptual contributions from reports produced about them. We proceeded with a documentary analysis of the content available on the website of the Brazilian Association of Researchers and Professionals in Educommunication (ABPEducom) and subsequent bibliographical research for further study. The text addresses the precursors, systematization and consolidation of the concept. Next, it presents the five trends identified: (i) in coastal and marine ecosystems; (ii) in articulation with the Sustainable Development Goals; (iii) in interface with Scientific Dissemination; (iv) in interface with the field of Communication and Health; and (v) in interface with Environmental Climate Education. Finally, it notes the epistemological diversity that has characterized these practices.

A Literacia Midiática e o Combate à Desinformação

Ana Daniele Maciel — 2025-06-19

Social challenges such as climate change, the overload of healthcare systems, disparities in access to education, job insecurity, among others, are exacerbated by disinformation, which compromises the interpretation of facts and decision-making. This investigation propose a comparative study between Brazil and Portugal, conducted through an integrative literature review, to understand the concept of media literacy, analyzing initiatives to minimize the implications of disinformation - one of today's greatest social challenges. The results reveal diversity in the strategies and resources employed, highlighting a consensus: only a critical stance makes society more resistant to manipulations that serve illegitimate interests.

Disinformation and adversarial abuse online

Ana Regina Rêgo — 2025-06-19

This text presents and deepens the debate surrounding disinformation and online adversarial abuse, focusing on approaches that classify them either as concepts or as phenomenon. In the same vein, and with the aim of providing a greater basis for the text, the locus of potentializing of disinformation and practices of polarization and disagreement is exposed based on the algorithmic structures that permeate the opacity of digital platforms and that are guided by their business models. Finally, actions and initiatives to address the phenomena are presented. The methodological process is marked by a rigorous literature review, as well as guided by the hermeneutics of historical consciousness (Ricoeur, 2010).

Cidadania comunicacional em ambientes digitais

Fernando Oliveira Paulino — 2025-06-19

By analyzing the Brazilian Media Education Strategy (EBEM) and the experience report of the Educom.ComCom project, this paper seeks to reflect on media education as an intrinsic right to communicational citizenship in the context of digital environments. To this end, it discusses the history of media education initiatives in Brazil and other countries. It can be concluded that the experience of building a media education proposal as a process of media education on and from digital environments highlights the potential of learning by doing and its impact on the formulation, implementation and evaluation of public policies aimed at Media and Information Literacy.

Media literacy based on media criticism and journalistic ethics

Rogério Christofoletti — 2025-06-19

Disinformation is a global threat that endangers collective life as it contributes to the spread of scientific denialism, political skepticism, and existential nihilism. Imminent harmful effects include increased distrust of institutions, erosion of democratic life, and the fraying of the social fabric. Various ways of confronting disinformation have been used, and media education is one of them. Although Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's third term created a structure to address this area, it cannot yet be said that Brazil has a consolidated national public policy for media education. This article aims to offer contributions to the design of a media literacy program that is based on two axes: media criticism as an ongoing exercise and journalistic ethics as a guiding element in the provision of content and as a guide for educational practices.

Contributions of media literacy to the credibility of journalism

Marli dos Santos — 2025-06-19

The article is set on the current communication era, in which systematic misinformation affects the credibility of the professional media. It can discuss the contributions of media literacy to rebuild the trust on the news. Reasoned on the concepts of news literacy and in the theories about the credibility and trust on the media, the piece is based on the two dimensions of credibility (the one created and the one perceived) suggested by Lisboa and Benetti (2015, 2017), to offer a third dimension (the built credibility), as a result of the process of the news literacy. On this take, it is suggested to connect two indicators that could be disconnected – credibility, from The Trust Project, and media literacy developed by Ferrés and Piscitelli (2012), - as a way of boosting journalistic credibility.

Letramento midiático em desertos de notícias

Juliana Fernandes Teixeira — 2025-06-19

The Northeast is the region with the largest number of news deserts in Brazil, according to Atlas da Notícia. Given this scenario, a city categorized as a news desert, Itaueira (located in Piauí), had access to Arriégua: Manual de Checagem Nordestina, produced by COAR Notícias. COAR is a northeastern fact-checking initiative in the region with the aim of encouraging the population's media literacy and teaching accessible fact-checking techniques. To this end, this article presents a study of this case based on a survey, using Google Forms, with students from the city of Itaueira, in order to evaluate the perception of the learning acquired by students through Arriégua about checking with regional language.

Literacies and information integrity

Cátia Lassalvia — 2025-06-19

Literacies and the integrity of information are established as fundamental rights and needs in our audiovisual and digital society. Inserted in the culture of connection, media and critical literacy assumes the role of a minimum condition, from school age, to form citizens in the full exercise of their rights, in an equitable and democratic society. Together, informational and media literacies can face and act in complex environments of information (and disinformation), being able to separate one from the other. Based on this, this article brings the cut of informational media activism as a process, result and mode that can be observed from journalistic practice. To this end, it analyzes the special of Agência Lupa on the floods that marked Rio Grande do Sul in 2024. The results point to the role of Lupa as a database in media education and informational integrity at the service of the community, as a tool for mobilization and technological-social innovation.

Alfabetização Midiática e News Literacy

Beatriz Becker — 2025-06-19

Editorial do dossiê "Alfabetização Midiática e News Literacy"

Apresentação editorial e expediente

Antonio Fatorelli — 2025-06-19

Apresentação editorial e expediente
Revista Eco-Pós, v. 28, n. 1, 2025

Entre vestígios e zonas de opacidade

Fabio Allan Mendes Ramalho — 2025-06-19

Drawing upon the analysis of the documentary 108: Cuchillo de Palo (Renate Costa, 2010), we explore how the director aims to capture glimpses of her uncle Rodolfo's evanescent existence during the Paraguayan dictatorship. Through his absence, and conveying testimonies, documents, and reminiscences, she endeavors to piece together fragments of his story. Moreover, we underscore the significance of the interplay and confrontation between Renate and her father's perspective, which encapsulates the dynamics of a family structure molded by the repressive background shaping the country's political and cultural life. We look to explore the aesthetic and political potential of the vestiges and gaps as components of a documentary poetics. Consequently, our objective is to construct an interpretation based on the traces presented in the film. To achieve this, we will examine the director's strategic choices and how they respond to the unique conditions that shape the cinematic discourse.

Revisiting the concept of Black loneliness through Black Brazilian music

Lucianna Furtado — 2025-06-19

This paper discusses and updates the concept of Black loneliness grounded on racialized and gendered conflicts with love and sexual partners represented in Black Brazilian popular and pop music. In order to do so, I discuss previous research on the concept, contributions from Black women’s samba songs to reflect upon the Black female loneliness phenomenon, and the relations with Black gay men’s experiences. Then I analyze the implications of this concept for Black gay men through Rico Dalasam’s song Última Vez (Last Time), in dialogue with the theoretical discussion and the notion of double bind in the context of racial relations in Brazil. Ultimately, I emphasize Black loneliness as a contradictory dynamic of both attraction and repulsion which reproduces racialized gender asymmetries between homosexual interracial couples.

Anti-racist and Decolonial Journalism in Brazil

Vitor Souza Lima Blotta — 2025-06-19

In this article we reflect upon the theoretical and empirical elements of an anti-racist and decolonial journalism, with a theoretical study followed by an interpretative analysis of the editorial lines and news stories on the same facts published by Folha de S. Paulo and Ponte Journalism. The text begins with a theoretical discussion on the “racial contract” and the “coloniality of power”, relating them with the public sphere and journalism in Brazil, which grounds the subsequent analyses of the editorial lines of each newspaper, and news stories on the murder of João Alberto Silveira Freitas, a black man, by security agents of a Carrefour store, and when federal congresswoman Carla Zambelli (PL-SP) chased at gun-point the black journalist Luan Araújo. Results indicate that political orientation and contextualization are crucial for distinguishing between an anti-racist and decolonial journalism, and a hegemonic journalism reproductive of the racist and colonialist patterns of Brazilian society.

Carolina Maria de Jesus in the "locusts swarms of print"

Rachel Bertol — 2025-06-19

Based on Child of the dark, the best-known work by Carolina Maria de Jesus, the article analyzes the proposition launched by Walter Benjamin about the "end of the book". Benjamin's diagnosis is based on his reflection on the history of writing, economics, public life and technique, as well as changes in the way of life in the cities. Carolina's work is constituted by an intense relationship with the city. However, according to the hypothesis presented here, it is a work modulated by the elements that, according to Benjamin, contribute precisely to the end of the book by destructive elements that he synthesizes in the image of "locusts swarms of print" in the cities. Benjamin's interpretation is related to his project of radical criticism of historicism, as submissive to rationalism, connected to a vision of writing as supposedly universal, disembodied and deterritorialized.

Futebol, imprensa e literatura

Leda Maria da Costa — 2025-06-19

This article aims to make a brief analysis of the critical reception of the first edition of Mario Filho's book, The Black Man in Brazilian Soccer. The most relevant critical texts were published in Jornal dos Sports, between 1947 and 1948, and were written by renowned writers and intellectuals. This fact gives Mário Filho's work a unique distinction, especially considering the limited scope of football-related books produced at that time. One of the possible explanations for this phenomenon can be found in the preface written by Gilberto Freyre to the book, which was often referenced in the set of critical texts analyzed here. This work also aims to investigate which interpretations were given to the work, which authors and which relationships of proximity were involved by those who made the first edition of The Black Man in Brazilian Soccer a hermeneutic object.

Book publishers set in the flood risk zone in Porto Alegre

Marilia de Araujo Barcellos — 2025-06-19

This study outlines book publishers in Porto Alegre, especially those located in flood risk zones, in order to report and measure the direct (stock/furniture/equipment/personnel) and indirect (logistics/suppliers) consequences of the disaster of May 2024 for the publishing industry. The quantitative-qualitative research identified a universe of 41 companies in Porto Alegre and 23 of them placed in a territory known as 4º District: publishers, distributors and printers (except bookstores). The approach was based in contact with 35 companies out of a universe of 41. The result is pessimistic: 51.43% of the contacted companies suffered direct material losses and all declared indirect losses, affecting the production chain. In this perspective, the research sought not only assesses the damage caused by the disaster, but also considers the collaborative network that weaves around the creative economy when in a situation of risk.

Does it have a happy ending?

Leonardo Pastor — 2025-06-19

As in other social networks, TikTok has become a space for interaction and discussion among readers, forming a community known as BookTok. Considering an experience model based on algorithmic recommendation, observations on this platform reveal a practice that would typically be considered incompatible with reading habits: the prior revelation of narrative details and endings, known as spoilers. Therefore, this article aims to understand how the practice of spoilers is developed in the interaction among readers within the algorithmic environment of TikTok. To achieve this, we employ a methodology for app studies (walkthrough method) to explore the platform and make visible the content and relationships among readers around book spoilers. We demonstrate that this practice of spoilers becomes part of a filtering process for reading options, as well as constituting a significant factor in the experience and interaction among readers on TikTok.

Fake news and sustainability

Frederico Oliveira — 2025-06-19

We argue that fake news about wildfires worsen information quality about sustentability in public sphere, and have environmental impacts. In order to do that, it is imperative to understand information materiality, a perspective grounded in Buckland, Latour and Parrika. We analyze the refferences of 56 posts and 50 fact-checking stories about wildfires published by Aos Fatos and Lupa. Results show he low informative quality of false content and a tautological foundation of the fact-checking stories. Lastly, the article discusses the dual environmental impact of false content and emphasizes the role of platforms in such context.

Artificial intelligence and media education

Paulo Antonio de Sousa Marquêz — 2025-06-19

The book Artificial Intelligence and Critical Thinking: Pathways to Media Education, by Alexandre Le Voci Sayad, explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the way we think, learn, and interact with the world. In five chapters, the author demonstrates how AI can be an ally in accessing knowledge but also poses ethical and social challenges, addressing issues such as misinformation and the loss of intellectual autonomy. Sayad argues that the critical use of technology is essential for a fairer and more inclusive society. He offers practical solutions for the educational environment, bridging theory and practice, and emphasizes how media education can tackle problems such as inequality and social exclusion.

O mapa das mediações algorítmicas

Gabriel Bhering — 2025-06-19

Nesta resenha, a nova ecologia midiática é refletida a partir da adoção de uma perspectiva crítica dos estudos de plataformas e algoritmos, conforme se acompanha nas páginas do livro Mediações algorítmicas: articulação entre as dimensões simbólicas e materiais das tecnologias digitais, de Kérley Winques (2024). Após a exposição desse cenário, a pesquisadora apresenta os estudos culturais latino-americanos trazendo as versões do Mapa de Martín-Barbero para, em seguida, esboçar o seu próprio, que não deseja superar o anterior e nem ser um modelo cristalizado, mas um desenho vivo para lidar com o atual cenário digital.

Sociability in metrics

Daniela Borges de Oliveira — 2025-06-19

This review of the book Recognition in the Age of Social Media, by Bruno Campanella (2024), attempts to bring together the main points defended by the author about the problem of how social media and their algorithms function in contemporary forms of recognition and identification. Starting with a historical overview at research into the role of media in the constitution of habitus, the author discusses his own concepts of datafied habitus and datafied recognition – conditions inherent to the relationships and interactions built with and on digital social media. Campanella challenges us to think beyond the potential of our communicational objects, not disregarding the lenses of the structural functioning of digital media and their governance.

Alfabetização midiática, midiativismo e a escuta do Sul Global: entrevista com Andrea Medrado

Beatriz Goes — 2025-06-19

Professor Andrea Medrado is the Director of Research in Communication and an Associate Professor at the University of Exeter, in the United Kingdom. She is also an Adjunct Professor at the Universidade Federal Fluminense(UFF), in the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where she is currently on unpaid leave. Her most recent book, Media Activism, Artivism and the Fight Against Marginalisation in the Global South: South-to-South Communication, co-authored with Isabella Rega, received the ICA Outstanding Book Award 2024 and has contributed to innovative debates on the relationship between media literacy and social activism. In this interview with Revista Eco-Pós, she discusses the relevance of media literacy in the context of the Global South and the power of artivism—artistic practices associated with activism—as an instrument to combat structural inequalities in access to and production of knowledge. She also reflects on the importance of data protection and security literacy in connection with media literacy, as well as the integration of teaching, research, and extension in universities for social transformation.

BIG TECHS AND DISINFORMATION: INTERVIEW WITH MARIE SANTINI

André Luís Pires Pelliccione — 2025-06-19

Rose Marie Santini is one of Brazil's leading experts in Internet Studies and Social Networks, recognized by prestigious international organizations. She is an Associate Professor at the School of Communication at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (ECO-UFRJ) and the founder and director of the NetLab Laboratory. According to Santini, the internet, the lack of transparency in big tech protocols, and the actions of far-right groups in spreading hate speech in digital environments play a central role in exacerbating misinformation phenomena. She acknowledges media literacy as essential in combating misinformation. However, she emphasizes that media education should focus more on literacy, platform usage, and understanding their business models rather than on specific content and sources. In this interview, she highlights that, despite the importance of mass media in agenda-setting for news, understanding the contemporary media landscape requires grasping the dynamics of persuasion on social networks that mobilize public opinion.