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The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged the world and changed our lifestyle in many aspects. From the discovery of the new virus and the clinical presentation of the associated illness, many news have flooded our media and caused significant attention from the public. The rapid spread of the disease is only comparable to the accelerated appearance of news populating traditional media channels as well as social media portals. The concern for the public, the medical professionals, and the governments around the world has been the truthfulness, accuracy, and verification of the information transmitted. A call for regulations has been made by some, while others advocate for a complete freedom of speech and information. The basic concepts of true journalism as well as the interest in the manipulation of the information are suddenly colliding into a different battlefield and have created on their own a different form of pandemic, the infodemic. © 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
ABSTRACT
This paper develops some findings and dimensions derived from the work carried out in the first part of the Project "Identities, experiences and social discourses in conflict around the pandemic and post-pandemic: a multidimensional study on uncertainties, hatred, solidarity, care and unequal expectations in all regions of Argentina" that is part of the "Research Program of the Contemporary Argentine Society. The social and human sciences in the COVID-19 crisis". Specifically, this article is made by the research teams of the Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educacion - Universidad Nacional de La Plata, that respond to four thematic subnets: Education, Body, Beliefs, Ideologies, identities and political passions. The objective is to know different social representations in the context of the pandemic. As regards the methodology, semi-structured interviews were made to people having different sociodemographic characteristics of the country. It may be concluded that both temporality and emotionality are related with the situated representations collected from the four thematic subnets.