Igor Sacramento

Igor Sacramento holds a PhD in Communication and Culture from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and is a researcher in Public Health from the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation. He is a professor in the Postgraduate Program in Communication and Culture at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and in the Postgraduate Program in Information and Communication in Health at the Oswaldo Cruz Foudation. His main areas of interest are the interfaces between communication, history and public health. He is currently researching health misinformation, anti-vaccination testimonies and professional education in communication and health. He is also vice-president of the Brazilian Association of Researchers in Media History (ALCAR).

The project

Title: Covid-19 and the production of anti-vaccination medical testimonies in Brazil and France

"Our recent years, in favor of an entertainment space, as digital social media also present themselves as a place to circulate expressive tales about political, educational and sane pursuits. Especially during the Covid 19 pandemic, as social networks provide a space for scientists, journalists and always social networks can produce and disseminate information in society and health from their own sources of vision to promote a new way consumption and production of information. On the social network TikTok, for example, educational stories about some medical products that become trends are shared, concerns about misinformation and potential health professionals, and we know that many of these influencers position themselves as educators and experts. Embarking on the diss emination of misinformation, which is an opportunity for healthcare professionals and digital social networks to respond to misinformed stories, appealing to misinformed stories with the understanding of demystifying “viral myths” and promoting warnings to audiences with such practices potentially dangerous (Southerton and Clark, 2022). Our speeches given by these actors are anchored in a justification that highlights the complexity of the uses of science under the justification of “medical autonomy”. We al so have to say that the execution of these expressions is professional, or the first point of view is how to build it and attribute legitimacy to a verdant speech, which is based on good experience, which is based on experience (Sacramento, 2018). In this case, the validation of green is based on experience, on conviction, on the fact that it is made up of important devices because of the green regime, evident on the border between the offline and online world. The proof now presents itself as a question to be considered."

Hosting institution: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)

Selective Bibliography

• FALCÃO, HULLY GUEDES ; MONARI, ANA CAROLINA ; SACRAMENTO, IGOR; MAUÉS, CAIO . -Meus filhos não serão cobaias-: cismas e discursos antivacinação infantil pós-pandemia de Covid-19. Horizontes Antropológicos (online), v. 30, p. 1-32, 2024.
• SACRAMENTO, Igor; CIRINO, J. A. . A infecção e suas memórias: o testemunho e a exposição do viver com HIV no YouTube. 1. ed. São Paulo: Pimenta Cultural, 2023.
• SACRAMENTO, Igor; FALCAO, H. G. ; MONARI, A. C. . Entrando no campo da desinformação: emoções conflitantes e os limites da relativização. SAÚDE E SOCIEDADE (ONLINE), v. 32, p. e230456pt, 2023.
• SACRAMENTO, Igor; MONARI, A. C. ; FALCAO, H. G. . Mediaciones culturales y etnografía: entrelaces teórico-metodológicos para la comprensión de los procesos de desinformación en la salud. RAZÓN Y PALABRA, v. 26, p. 74-90, 2022.
• SACRAMENTO, Igor; FALCAO, H. G. ; LEIROZ, F. . E quando não eram fake news? Boato e cisma sobre vacinação no Brasil de 1999/2000. ANIMUS (SANTA MARIA. ONLINE), v. 21, p. 188-206, 2022.