Quilombolas do Pará e mídias sociais: a incorporação de tecnologias digitais na ação coletiva emergencial Sacaca e Malungu na luta contra o coronavírus

Abstract

This dissertation addresses the use of the internet and social media in the emergency collective action entitled 'Sacaca and Malungu in the fight against the coronavirus in the quilombola territories of Pará'. This initiative was made up of volunteers, including scholarship holders and members of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Amazonian Societies, Culture and Environment (Sacaca) of the Federal University of Western Pará (UFOPA), as well as representatives of the Coordination of Associations of Quilombo Remnant Communities (Malungu). Its main purpose was to face the pandemic by creating informational materials adapted to the socio-cultural reality of quilombola communities, in addition to carrying out activities such as communication pieces, videos, spots, epidemiological bulletins, tweets and live broadcasts on YouTube. This research focuses on the following aspects: 1) description of the emergency collective action; 2) presentation of informative materials; 3) analysis of the cinematographic documentary entitled 'Nos Por Nós: Narrativas da covid-19 no Quilombos do Pará'; 4) reception and circulation of informative content in quilombola communities. Methodologically, the study used Ethnography for the Internet (Hine, 2015), Autoethnography (Versiani, 2005), Action Research (Fals Borda, 1979) and semi-structured interviews. As a result, I identified the configuration of virtual social networks in several aspects: in the elaboration of information materials, in the dissemination of these materials and in the transfer of information on confirmed cases and deaths of COVID-19 by quilombola members to the state coordination. In addition, it was also possible to identify that the emergency collective action stimulated the emergence of other collective actions in the state. The bibliography covers areas such as Digital Anthropology, Political Anthropology and Audiovisual Anthropology.