Liberdade de expressão como direito humano no Instagram: uma mediação experimental em Campina Grande, Paraíba, durante a pandemia de Covid-19.

Abstract

This work aims to give a voice to people who have been forced to risk their lives and seek their financial support during the COVID-19 pandemic or who exercise professions that do not have due recognition or visibility on the part of society, in the city of Campina Grande. Our goal is to offer, albeit in an incomplete and punctual way, a space for these individuals to exercise fundamental rights: that of communication and freedom of expression. For this, we created a profile on the fifth largest social network in the world, Instagram, to tell their life stories, dreams, anxieties, fears... This is an exploratory study, which uses questionnaires and semi-structured interviews to portray realities of people who are invisible. We created a space that is characterized as a communicative ecosystem, in which we provide communicational experiences, promote social integration and the decentralization of voices. We hope that this study will serve to provoke reflection on the importance of empathy, generosity, respect - among other values - especially in one of the most painful moments of humanity in the last 100 years, since the last pandemic of Spanish flu at the beginning of the 21st century.