Redes de comunicação e ações sociais: O Observatório Antropológico no enfrentamento dos efeitos da pandemia de Covid-19 junto às populações tradicionais e de periferias urbanas na Paraíba

Abstract

This work aims to analyze and document the social actions and the performance of the extension project Observatório Antropológico: Mapeamento e fortalecimento das ações de combate ao Covid-19, in the state of Paraíba, based on my experience as an extensionist in the project. First as a volunteer, from April 2020; and then as a scholarship holder, from May 2021. The activities of the Anthropological Observatory ended in August 2021, and I continued to work on completing the projects until December 2021.. Based on the established relations of research, teaching and extension, especially in the field of Anthropology, the main purpose was to map, formulate and carry out social actions, with the populations served, in an attempt to lessen the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. Thus, during the period analyzed, between April 2020 and September 2021, emergency actions were carried out and finalized, such as: emergency actions; pandemic transition activities; production of communication materials disseminated through social networks; and the development of academic papers by the researchers, collaborators and graduate students. The work methodology consisted in verifying the project's public documentary records, including: extension project reports and other research and extension projects that were part of its construction, posts and social networks data and the author's experience report, while project extensionist. In this way, based on the studies of the Anthropology of Action, it is understood that the work of researchers in the field of Social Sciences is feasible from a dialogical stance, attentive to and recognizing the diversity of ethnically differentiated communities.