Information sources are a fundamental asset for the media and allow the journalist to access events. Given the situation experienced in Portugal between 5 March 2020 and 7 May 2020, a period of confinement motivated by the new coronavirus and the COVID19 disease, it was our goal to try to understand how the local press approached the subject of the disease, namely which journalistic genres were dominant and what were the most striking sources in the editions published in this period. We focused our analysis on the weekly newspaper Jornal da Bairrada and, according to the taxonomic model for the classification of information sources created by Felisbela Lopes (2016), we concluded that there is a dependence on information sources, with a primacy of the closest sources and with a clear predominance of human sources. This analysis involved ten editions, in a total of 259 articles, which directly or indirectly addressed the virus or disease, and among the human sources, there is also a preference for professional sources, which speak on behalf of a group, a collective or a professional class, as well as sources classified as official and representing public institutions. In the framework of analysis of journalistic genres, the study also demonstrated the significant use of briefs and news as a way to communicate issues related to the new coronavirus and COVID19.

This article framed within the European project Play your Role – Gamification Against Hate Speech, proposes the study and analysis of the state of the art in video game panorama, focusing the tendency to the use of hate speech by young players. The immersion of the player in the symbolic arena of the game, where everything becomes possible, raises moral questions about the relationship between video games, in the virtual world and the player’s behavior in the physical world. It is shown that the use of anonymity and the creation of communities and game groups can lead to exclusion and attacks to minorities; chat communications can facilitate the sharing of interests and game techniques as well as insults in times of tension between players, what justifies the reflection on the role of gaming platform in the control of the shared content. Considering the possibilities of video games, this article also reflects about game literacy and how games can become powerful learning tools.

In this essay, it will be discussed how journalistic activity has been criticized by populist political leaders and how the narrative of the “journalist as an enemy” is associated with the rise of social media as vehicles of the populist political message. In addition, some considerations will also be made on the need to regulate these online platforms, in order to combat phenomena of misinformation and the spread of fake news so often associated with populist leaderships. Among this essay's conclusions is the fact that the lack of scrutiny and the journalistic filter reward the emergence of ill-informed voters and, therefore, allow the rise of populist political leaders whose proposals and/or ideals are not properly scrutinized by public opinion. This reflection becomes particularly pertinent if we consider that, ultimately, such phenomena could jeopardize the vitality of democratic regimes and the holding of free and fair elections.

Regarding the expansion of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, posteriorly named by Coronavirus, the aim for a vaccine for its disease, COVID-19, has been faced as a worldwide challenge. Therefore, either health professionals or not have been trying to conceive alternative cures, including life-threatening ones. This article suggests a content analysis of the report ‘Coronavirus: Ghana 'quack doctors' selling 'cure'’, produced by BBC and conducted by the journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas. This journalistic work was explored through three thematic categories: traditional media disinformation, interference of the spirituality on the medical practices, and investigative journalism as a way of staving off fake information. The following article debates on how this type of journalism can contribute to fight against media disinformation, generated by beliefs related to the spirituality that currently remains in the African continent and especially in the Ghanaian country, in which the report under analysis focuses on.

This text is a panoramic analysis of the media narratives through the Travel and Share platform, focusing on five videos available on its YouTube channel in the space of five months. The methodology used was a content analysis instrumented by data collection and analysis, analysis of visual and audiovisual content (Bardin, 2000). Adopting the texts, The Narrator and The Work of Art in the Age of its Technical Reproducibility (Benjamin, 1985), The Power of Vulnerability (Brown, 2010) and What is the Contemporary? (Agamben, 2009), we seek to understand some narratives exposed in the investigated content. With this study it is concluded that the vulnerabilities caused by the pandemic and linked to autonomous audiovisual narratives provide an exchange of experiences through the stories told, leading to a greater expectation, in search of understanding the new ways of being in a constantly changing world.

The present investigation proposes to reflect on the resignification strategies used by the Brazilian television during the Coronavirus pandemic and the reverberations that this new construction of meanings brings to the production and consumption of texts-programs. To do so, at first, it recovers the diachronic evolution of television in Brazil, through nine phases, and reflects on a series of strategic movements of expansion and interiorization of TV everywhere, accelerated by the Coronavirus pandemic.

Cyberfeminism guarantees a new political cycle of innovative opportunities driven by the building of bonds between women through the appropriation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). This feminist activism comes to inquire the gender inequalities still implicit in women. In the context of covid-19, where confinement prevents living in society, the United Nations (UN) warned of the likely increase in domestic violence rates by reinforcing governments to toughen up coping measures. In this sense, domestic violence, which is the most frequent form of violence against women, especially in the context of intimacy (APAV, 2010), becomes one of the main concerns. Since ICTs are the only contact with the outside world, this study sought to discuss the emergence of cyberfeminism in articulating specific communities of assistance and support to women, focusing on domestic violence during the pandemic from Fairclough's Critical Discourse Analysis (ACD) of the campaign “Not everything has to be within 4 walls”, developed by Portuguese feminist associations on Facebook and Instagram platforms. Thus, cyberfeminism acts as an influencer of social mobilizations in the context of a feminist social network that seeks an emblematic political change.

The emergence and popularization of social media, considered the new gatekeepers in people's access to information, led to a change in the public's relationship with the news. These digital intermediaries have become crucial players in the media ecosystem, leading news outlets to use these platforms in their work routines. Within this environment of social media, the Brazilian digital native news media Revista AzMina, Gênero e Número, Énois and data_labe joined in the creation of Covid-19 Special, to carry out joint coverage of the pandemic. From the study of this empirical object, this article seeks to understand the impact, in terms of visibility, of the use of social media by digital natives in the context of a collaborative project.

This article's intention is to recognize perverse and antipolitician signs over Dilma Roussef's impeachment process, that happened in 2016.  Started from Hannah Arendt's conceptions about politics, this text recognizes the consumption and the acceptance of the magazines covers from Veja Magazine, one of the most read in Brazil, by anonymous people on their perverse standards. For that, the research uses as methodology the concept of culture circuit developed by Richard Johnson, in order to keep up with that perverse values were recognized and assumed since the magazine's production until the communication process of its circulation. Thereby, the research's results indicate that Dilma Roussef's impeachment process was produced from the destruction, at that time, of the stablished political space, in name of private passions which were spread as cultural and moral values.

This article aims to analyze how the University of Minho (UMinho), in Portugal, used social media Facebook and Instagram to communicate and build relationships with its audiences in the first two months of the Covid-19 pandemic. Through a qualitative research, of an exploratory character, based on the netnographic method (Kozinets, 2010), we observe both the theme, purpose and engagement of publications carried out by the University, as well as the interactions developed from these publications. We realized that the Institution's presence on the social networks Facebook and Instagram was managed within the framework of a crisis management process that highlighted concrete institutional actions and positive emotions and sought to motivate audiences and convey confidence. But he did not use all the natural potential of social networks to develop two-way communication, interacting and building relationships with audiences. In a brief look at the social networks of major universities in Europe in the same period, we realized that UMinho's behavior is in line with that of its counterparts: weak interaction, short dialogue. In this context, we can even say that it went further, since it prepared an institutional communication campaign for the period and used an emotional tone, something unusual, in the initial period of the pandemic, among European universities.