Seu microfone está desligado: o silêncio dos ouvintes na cobertura da pandemia de COVID-19 no rádio local

Abstract

The object of this article is the coverage and provision of services carried out by a local radio station – Rádio Itatiaia Ouro Preto – in a worldwide event: the Covid-19 pandemic (2020). Our starting point is to understand the historicity of the radio's performance in the region and the establishment of links or the silencing of its listeners in the coverage of the impact of the pandemic in the locations reached by the station. For this purpose, data from previous research were used, observation of the hertzian transmission of the radio retransmitted by streaming and the monitoring of the station's social networks during part of the period of social isolation.