Mais que uma infodêmia
Pandemia, pós-verdade e os perigos do irracionalismo
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pós-verdade, pandemia, sociedade digital, irracionalismoResumo
A pandemia revela a condição pós-verdade e a crise de confiança e os conflitos entre as múltiplas competências, inclusive as das ciências da saúde, que dificultam a solução dos problemas planetários. A análise pós-verdade da pandemia nos permite compreender aspectos essenciais da comunicação pública contemporânea: o distúrbio (des) informacional, as questões e conflitos sobre a especialização e as consequências mistas que a abundância comunicativa traz para enfrentar problemas comuns, como a saúde pública global. A pandemia demonstra os problemas para o uso coletivo da razão pública. A razão pública exige condições comunicativas, como informações verídicas, acordos epistemológicos sobre dados e fatos e participação cidadã. Porém, a comunicação pública, fraturada e fragmentada, sem normas de participação ou princípios epistemológicos compartilhados, dinamita as chances de se chegar a um consenso significativo sobre uma variedade de temas: a identificação dos problemas, o diagnóstico das causas, o debate das soluções. A teimosa propaganda de poder somada a correntes irracionais que questionam aspectos essenciais da pandemia, como sua existência, origem, métodos de atendimento e resolução, expõem esse problema. Esses conflitos são atravessados pelo caos da comunicação contemporânea que, além de potencializar as oportunidades de expressão, também dificulta o consenso. O problema é que a resolução de bens públicos pressupõe consenso básico sobre mecanismos compartilhados de debate público e princípios para determinar e resolver bens comuns.
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