Dossier Multidisciplinary perspectives on disinformation in science and health (v. 16, n. 2) Apr./Jun. 2022
One of the biggest challenges we face today is the circulation of misinformation. In recent years, there has been a recurring concern in the public debate about issues such as “post-truth,” “alternative facts,” and “fake news.” Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, we could see how science has been triggered both in social media, by political leaders, and in journalistic and media framings that generally emphasize a political and/or scientific crisis more than the health crisis. In this complex field of dispute and uses of scientific information, we see different forms of production and consumption of information emerging, some classified as “disinformation”, such as “conspiracy theories” related to science, “scientific denialism”, “pseudoscience”, fake sciences and ” para-science”.
Many of these forms of science-related disinformation use scientific production itself to validate arguments and belief systems, even if averse to the prevailing scientific evidence, significantly altering the way scientific information circulates in media and digital environments. And the high rates of sharing that such research achieves, gauging an apparent social impact through alternative metrics that measure its performance in social web sources, further aggravate the challenges of understanding what its reception and circulation represent.
In a context of global health crisis, the authority of modern epistemic communities is momentarily suspended, giving way to the emergence of other authorities, no longer those consolidated in modernity, straining democratic values already weakened in a context of institutional and epistemic crisis. In this context, digital influencers, religious, community or political leaders emerge and exert influence on the way subjects relate to health-related scientific information, directly affecting the way subjects receive scientific information.
Given this context of disputes over health-related information, the objective of this dossier is to create an interlocution between different areas of knowledge to shed light on disinformation processes, especially when related to science and health. Despite the growth of studies focused on disinformation and health, understanding the mechanisms of consumption of information and perception about public communication in health and the social uses of science is of great relevance, especially in a context of health crisis. Therefore, it is of great importance to compile collections that have as a proposal to perform multidisciplinary articulations for a better understanding of the causes, consequences and challenges arising from this process of circulation of disinformation related to science and health.
Therefore, the proposal of this dossier is to discuss the different regimes of truth, belief systems and moral grammars in which the actors are based to elaborate critiques of science and justifications to contest or defend epistemic authorities around scientific controversies and their political crossings.
Some of the topics of interest in this dossier, but not limited to them, include:
- The different perspectives on the meanings attributed to misinformation, especially, scientific disinformation and health science misinformation;
- Analyses of the meanings given to science and its representations in the processes of scientific disinformation;
- Research that discusses the disinformative processes related to science and health through themes concerning vaccination, “denialism”, “fakenews”, “fake sciences”, “para-science”;
- The different uses of science and health, and their imbrications with politics, paying attention to the assumption that there is no separation between these fields, what interests us is how these intersections are constructed and defended;
- Disinformative processes related to prevention and health care;
- Studies on ways, strategies to confront and combat scientific disinformation in health;
- Researches that analyze qualification processes, messages and audiences of disinformation actions/campaigns;
- Analysis of categories and framing typologies of disinformation in science and health;
- Transnational flows of circulation of scientific disinformation;
- Altmetric studies and communities of attention network around health disinformation;
- Investigations on disinformation and democracy that analyze the role of public managers, political agents and collectives in disinformation processes in science and health.
Guest Editors: Hully Guedes Falcão (Fiocruz), Thaiane Oliveira (UFF) and Ronaldo F. Araújo (UFAL).
Submission deadline: March 3rd, 2022.
Publication: April/June 2022
When submitting the paper, please use category Dossier Multidisciplinary perspectives on disinformation in science and health.
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Dossier For an Interdisciplinary Ethics (v. 16, n. 3) Jul./Sept. 2022
Often associated with the model of biomedical-centered knowledge production, despite all its normative advances in recent decades, the research ethics still needs a wider view of a set of crucial issues that have become more visible in the pandemic contemporary world. The imperative of the so-called interdisciplinarity, vocalized by a number of social actors, throws light on the void of inclusions, connections and interactions, necessary and urgent, among several dimensions that are taken into account and thought like different, dissimilar, invisible and/or inexistent, although they, in essence, complement each other. What the black and white disciplinary science cannot answer, the interdisciplinarity, by colouring and mixing, can make explicit and wider as well as it can provide new possibilities of understanding and of new actions in the world. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the starting point which both reinforce the inexorability of the interdisciplinarity and value the achievements of disciplinary knowledge over centuries. It is not a question of exclusion, but of mobilizing ethics to do the sewing, the stitching and the texture between what is particular/individual and what is collective; between what is seen and what a quick look does not capture; between what is heard and what is silenced; between what is and what could be.
Aiming to overcome these obstacles and challenges, the proposal of this dossier is to rethink both ethics and research from a new perspective that throw light on the problems of our time from theoretical and methodological approaches that are as interdisciplinary as possible. More than paying attention to more conventional bioethical themes, although they are welcome, the invitation is to occupy a space in order to rediscuss the most hidden foundations of science and ethics, pointing to a new civilization project more plural and inclusive.
Proposals of original articles on the following thematic axes will be evaluated:
- Ethics and open science;
- Ethics and sustainability;
- Ethics, negligence and vulnerability;
- Cultures, affections and ethics of the bodies;
- For an ethical communication;
- Ethics and education (formative processes);
- The ethical State and ethics in public policies.
Guest Editors: Maria Cristina S. Guimarães (ICICT/Fiocruz), Marcio Sacramento de Oliveira (ICICT/Fiocruz), André Mendonça (IMS/UERJ), Maria Manuel Borges (Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Coimbra).
Submission deadline: April 7th, 2022.
Publication: v. 16, n. 3, Jul/Sept, 2022.
When submitting the paper, please use category Dossier For an Interdisciplinary Ethics.
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Dossier Platform Labor & Health (v. 16, n. 4) Oct./Dec. 2022
The platformization of labor not only jeopardizes labor rights and tax regularization mechanisms, but also generates serious effects on the health of people working in these economies. In some cases, as in on-demand delivery work, even human losses are reported on a daily basis. Content moderators and microworkers have many mental health issues. For example, in 2020, Facebook had to pay $52 million to its moderators who developed post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Thus, it is urgent to analyze health and welfare on digital platforms, both in relation to current conditions and to prefigure what futures we want in relation to health in the platform labor.
This thematic dossier aims to compile studies on the intersection between health and platform labor, recognizing the importance of this debate. We accept articles in English, Spanish and Portuguese. We are especially interested in submissions that shed light across these themes:
• Health of platform workers across the sectors;
• Safety and health of platform labor in the streets: drivers, riders, shoppers;
• Working from home: remote work, microwork, and reproductive labor;
• Domestic work and beauty sector;
• Intersection of gender, race, caste, class, age, sexuality or other dynamics in impacting health conditions of platform workers;
• Decolonial perspectives on platform labor and health;
• Beyond “invisible” and “hiddens” perspectives on platform labor and health;
• Chronic illness, disabilities and platform capitalismo;
• Mental health, right to disconnection and platform labor;
• Mental health and plataform capitalismo;
• Platformization of health workers and medical care workers;
• Technologies and metrics of health surveillance and monitoring on platforms during covid-19;
• Biopolitics and platform capitalism before and during the pandemic;
• Organizational, moral and sexual harassment working on digital platforms;
• Fair work on digital platforms and the role of health;
• Health of platform workers and public policies.
Guest editors: Rafael Grohmann (Unisinos University, Brazil), Noopur Raval (New York University, United States), and Kruskaya Hidalgo Cordero (Platform Observatory, Equador)
Submission deadline: June 30th, 2022.
Publication: v. 16, n. 4, Oct./Dec. 2022.
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