Resiliência informacional e desinformação no contexto do Covid - 19 : práticas informacionais colaborativas de mulheres imigrantes brasileiras nas redes sociais digitais

Abstract

Develops a correlation based on studies that address the problems related to Migration, Gender, Informational Practices, Misinformation and Informational Resilience in the context of digital social networks. Part of a investigation project that seeks to understand how social media enables the construction of informational skills necessary to transmute the state of informational uncertainty experienced by immigrant women who face relevant personal and health factors in the context of COVID-19. It stems from a qualitative research based on the thematic analysis of digital informational practices organized by Brazilian immigrant women in Portugal who, when facing the pandemic context of 2020, organized a solidarity network based on the collective “Plataforma Geni”. An analysis focuses on the reports of the trajectory of 10 women, who were interviewed under the perspective of the “informational resilience in virtual social networks”, proposed by Brasileiro (2017, 2019, 2020). As results, it finds that the state of informational uncertainty experienced in the hypotheses of rupture with normality, arising from covid 19. Together with the perceived misinformations in the digital environment, displaces women to use their own digital networks in the search for solutions in

a collaborative way. In this way, women develop a favorable environment to build techno- mediated relationships that, oriented towards the common well-being, enable the overcoming

of uncertainties, provide opportunities for decision-making, pave the way for the construction of new informational skills and reposition. These women towards from the context of risk and informational transition, building perspectives of information literacy and social cohesion negotiated in an emergent and collaborative way.