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As the WHO declared the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, scientists had little information about the virus. Consequently, the United Nations called for joint efforts to disseminate scientific data about the disease. If from a medical and biological point of view, the response to the pandemic is well--known - which would be decisive in the fight against the virus -, minimal information about the communicative dimension of this crisis is shared, especially in the Communication Sciences scope, in a time when it was necessary to deliver risk messages to the population. From a sample of 20 journals with the highest impact factor in Scopus, this article tries to characterize the research that focused on the pandemic with communication in the first year of this crisis (March 2020-March 2021). In the 42 papers on COVID-19, we found that researchers did not work in a logic of international partnership, as the concerns about the digital impacts of COVID-19 on society were substantially notorious. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents an exploratory study of image banks, specifically Getty Images and Shutterstock, analyzing whether their tagging processes reveal algorithmic forms of reproducing colonial mentalities about black women. From Patricia Hill Collins' concept of "controlling images," Jezebel, Mammy, and Sapphire images were examined, understanding that these stereotypes of black female subjectivity underscore narratives of subordination, exploitation, and animalization in the service of coloniality. While the results show specificities, primarily due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we found that algorithmic coloniality becomes apparent in these banks, which frequently tag the images of black women under colonial representation standards of labor, sexuality, and aggressiveness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In everyday conversation and in the social networks, we may come across the term cult in reference to people, places, movies or television programs. In this paper, we propose a few conceptualizations about the notion of cult TV, applied to Brazilian television fiction, and particularly soap operas. The first section focuses on the theoretical dialogue between authors who discuss the concept of cult TV (Pearson, 2010; Hills, 2010) and who point out the relationship between the expression and the innovative or critical content of a narrative, its nostalgic appeal or, mainly, to fan engagement. Then, we describe the empirical research carried out in three stages: 1) analysis of tweets in order to draw a parallel between the theoretical conceptualizations and the use of the term by the viewers; 2) questionnaire administered in online networks that pointed out which soap operas were considered as cult by viewers; and 3) focal group discussing the reasons why those soap operas were mentioned. Based on these guidelines, the paper highlights fans' investment in one of the most cited productions in the questionnaire, Avenida Brasil, a recent production that made visible the link between the concept of cult and fans' manifestations online. As a result, the paper contributes to the theoretical conceptualization of cult, opens a dialogue between international theories and the Brazilian context and shows, from the point of view of viewers, how fans can turn a soap opera into a cult. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper studies the reality of ethical and bioethical issues in the scientific world through an integrative literature review of articles included in three databases. Seven terms from the thesaurus Health Sciences Descriptors were used, from which three combinations were elaborated and used in the three databases. After applying inclusion requirements, a total of 18 articles were selected. Certain misconducts, particularly plagiarism, falsification and data fabrication, have been showing an increasing behavior, which requires more stringent measures in order to control such phenomenon and maintain scientific credibility before society and authorities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: To identify, in the national and international scientific literature, the evidence produced by Nursing that provides subsidies to prevent teenage pregnancy. Material and method: An integrative literature review study, based on papers available in the PubMed, BVS, Scopus and Web of Science metabases, and in the Lilacs and BDEnf databases, in Portuguese, English and Spanish languages, published from January 2013 to March 2020. Results: According to the inclusion criteria, 13 articles were selected. The findings are presented in the categories "lower socio-economic conditions", "knowledge, attitudes and cultural aspects" and "sexual education and specialized services". Conclusions: Teenage pregnancy is strongly associated with poverty and other socio-economic issues. Gender relations, communication about sex education in the family and other cultural aspects were found in the discussions, which indicates their impact on this phenomenon. Interventions involving sex education are shown as an alternative to cope. The presence of the nurse at the places that assist or concentrate adolescents can be a great element to reduce pregnancy rates in this phase. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article reflects on historiographic research into communication from an epistemological standpoint and notes the importance of changing perspective when dealing with documents produced by the media. Therefore, the context --i.e., the historicity of communication processes-- becomes a text to be analyzed. To this end, a critical inventory of research that relates communication with history in Brazil is compiled to show the transformations it has undergone in the last decades. Some theoretical and methodological assumptions are introduced for research that brings the historical matter into focus. To close, a methodological path is proposed to produce research that takes as postulates the documentary specificity to be discussed and the reading to be done of communication documents for historical synthesis and interpretation purposes. The paper is based on the core idea that methodological postulates should follow three levels of analysis (historiographic propositions, historical propositions, and methodological practices) and briefly presents methodological contexts that may be adopted by studies that suggest the communication-history relationship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: The aim of this study was to identify and analyze the tools used to evaluate the peristomal skin complications by an integrative review. Materials and methods: A literature review was performed through the following databases: Virtual Health Library (BVS), PUBMED/MEDLINE, CINAHL, Scopus and Web of Science, from January to February 2018. During the search in the databases, the following descriptors were used: stoma, colostomy, and dermatitis. The keywords were: tools, peristomal skin complication and peristomal skin assessment. Studies were added to the following inclusion criteria: articles published in Portuguese, English or Spanish, full paper access, no time limit and they had to be about tools for peristomal skin complications assessment. Results: The analysis identified the existence of nine tools with different parameters to describe peristomal skin complications. In general, they describe the peristomal skin changes based on classification, the peristomal skin complications or in the present clinical characteristics. The majority of the tools have not tested psychometric measures. Conclusion: Four out of the nine instruments identified have psychometric measures tested. The nurse should be aware and must know the existing valid and reliable tools to describe and classify how grave is the skin issue. This in order to give an accurate diagnosis and to improve the care quality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper starts from the idea of the cultural relevance of television, according to which its narratives are central to knowing the history, politics, the stories about the nation and a recent memory of our Latin American countries. Here, I present the results of a research that illustrates, through development groups, how Brazilian viewers interpret Colombian narco-telenovela Escobar, el Patrón del Mal, with the aim of understanding how recent history was built, as well as the political and cultural conflicts of that society from a television product. My conclusion is that the meanings attributed by the participants of the groups revealed important aspects of this role of television in our societies. The narco-telenovela faced them with the intricacies of a problem that is deeply embedded in Colombian culture and politics; it also helped them to understand the phenomena and events of our own reality from a critical standpoint and showed them that our Latin American societies develop, for better or worse, their own strategies of entry into modernity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we analyze the users’ perception about their privacy and confidentiality in a hospital, as well as the actions of professionals regarding these issues. It is an exploratory and qualitative study, conducted in a general hospital in Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, with 34 users. We carried out a number of semi-structured interviews and non-participant observations with content analysis. The results were grouped in two categories: “Privacy of hospitalized users” and “Confidentiality of hospitalized users”. The respondents showed little mastery on the issues of privacy and confidentiality, while the actions of professionals cast doubt on their knowledge of these ethical issues. The importance of discussion is acknowledged and it is hoped that the results found can subsidize reflections aimed at a more ethical and humane assistance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we propose a reflection on the happiness represented in the advertising discourse, in terms of the satisfaction afforded by consumption. For this purpose, we focus on the content presented by the advertising film Narcissus, in which discourses, themes and images converge in a mythical construction of happiness. The analyses are carried out in separate but complementary segments: the mythical nature of the discourse that lays the foundation of the audiovisual under observation is discussed, considering the ideological and psychosocial aspects involved in its construction; emphasis is made on the syncretism of languages selected for transmitting its greatest message--the happiness resulting from the perfection of the Self--, evidencing the intertextual relations established, as well as the argumentative effects of the linguistic resources involved. The result was the effective dialogue between theories that, in their heterogeneity, lay the foundations of the considerations on the happiness inscribed and encouraged in/by consumption. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper aims to conduct a study on the legislation governing the use of the Internet in Brazil, the Civil Internet Framework (Law 12,965 / 2014). This is a descriptive study, of qualitative nature, based on bibliography and comparative study. A brief history of the Internet in Brazil and its current outlook is initially exposed. Then, the concept of governance in the Internet and the events that marked the discussions on this subject is presented. The Civil Internet Framework addresses in Brazil, the history of its creation and the principles that govern it. We conclude that it is an important official regulatory instrument to ensure freedom and rights of the user. Its design was based on the participation of civil society, which can be considered unprecedented in regard to creating regulatory laws. It is considered that this is a sophisticated law as to its guidelines, which makes it one of the most progressive in the world. Despite all this, its democratic trajectory of creation gives a general and superficial character. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: The growing volume of information originating with nursing records demands strategies for managing the data that is produced in a way that avoids the disadvantages of case histories kept on paper. Purpose: The study was intended to develop software applicable to the systematization of nursing care, so as to provide nurses with efficient and quick computerized records. Methodology: This is a methodological study, with technological production, and is divided into three phases: construction of diagnostic categories and nursing interventions, validation of diagnostic categories, and software development. The system was built on the Java platform, using JavaServer Faces (JSF) as a framework and featuring the J2EE specification to readily develop web applications. Findings: The database consists of 143 nursing diagnostic categories and 130 references to nursing interventions. The respective software shows 17 screens that include data on identification and complete physical examination of the newborn, organized according to basic human needs, along with a list of nursing diagnoses and interventions suggested by the program and a final sheet for printing. Final considerations: The software provides the nursing process with a complete, uniform and quick record, and constitutes an important source of data for research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: This paper is intended to explore how nurses working in primary health care perceive acceptance. Method: It is based on a qualitative study conducted through interviews with 21 nurses from eight municipalities in the State of São Paulo. A phenomenological approach was used in data analysis. Results: It was found that nurses' understanding of acceptance, at certain points in time, comes close to the principles and guidelines of the Unified Health System (SUS). Conclusions: Nursing professionals manifest difficulties with the structure, organization and management of health services and express actions and beliefs related to the traditional model of care. The various stakeholders need to join forces if acceptance is to be achieved. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The current communicational process experiences a revolution in both the structural fields and those of the languages. Such changes are the result of communication behaviors and contributions offered to contemporary society, such as social networking and mobility. However, communication has not fully embraced these changes, despite of studies related to the transmedia storytelling. This paper is a reflective and investigative discussion about transmedia strorytelling as social language either in fiction and journalism. Hopefully, this study may also provide insights to new researches regarding this subject. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]