Mediação da informação para a comunidade LGBTQIAPN+ no primeiro ano da pandemia de covid-19

Abstract

Digital social networks in Brazil have enabled actors and informational subjects to expand the outreach of the term “information mediation”, especially due to the new media format in such networks, by utilizing digital devices, which fostered the access to platforms while social distancing was in force to prevent COVID-19. This study had the purpose of identifying who are and by means of what contents the main collective digital LGBTQIAPN+ profiles in Brazil they served as information mediators in relation to the power that que form the subject along the first year of the pandemic. Its main objective was to understand informational mediation, in the first year of the pandemic, conducted by collective digital LGBTQIAPN+ profiles and their links with the Theory of Power and Recognition by Judith Butler, supported by the specific objectives: to identify and organize the informational mediation performed in lives streams by LGBTQIAPN+ digital profiles in the first year of the pandemic; systematize the Theory of Power and Recognition in Judith Butler to understand how and under what existing condition the LGBTQIAPN+ is formed and expressed in collective digital profiles and, finally, analyze the informational mediation in collective digital LGBTQIAPN+ profile in YouTube and their relation with the Theory of Power and Recognition, emphasizing the potential of the subject´s action and the agendas to mobilize the profiles. In order to conduct this study, a structured qualitative approach was used in two main stages: the sampling stage and the analytical stage. As this is a social research, with a specific population and having wide possibilities of sampling in the social networks, the choice was to select a small representative portion of the collective digital channels in YouTube. The research revealed the profiles ABGLT and National Popular LGBTI+ Council. Afterwards, with the aid of the analysis of contents and networks, a panorama of the six live streams was developed, which were selected in the sight of the outstanding categories of the Theory of Power and Recognition: subjection, agency, social subject, performativity, invisibility, precariousness, and mourning, in addition to the interactions identified. Thus, it was possible to determine that the categories performativity and precariousness stood out in all the live streams analyzed, not because it was the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic but due to the invisibility of the community, in addition to the subjection the State imposes onto the subjects. It was noted that the categories agency ans social subject have ensured LGBTQIAPN+ people with achievements in the Legislative and Judiciary branches. In this area, the interactions between experts and the audience have fostered, in addition to clarifications, the identification and repercussions of power in the subjects, either those who followed the live stream or those who watched the stream after, asynchronously. Highlight falls upon the informational mediation which, besides the apparent dialectical dimension, contributes for future political and ethical analyses, by virtue of the current pandemic scenario. The initiative undertaken by the organizations has allowed to make the population more aware by means of the live stream conducted through YouTube and the formation of subjects as agency and social subjects that are critical and open to access and appropriate the information.