ISOLAMENTO e INFORMAÇÃO: Memória coletiva e formação de identidade em tempos de Coronavírus através das mídias

Abstract

This article aims to reflect on the formation of identity in times of Coronavirus, with emphasis on two phenomena that are immediate results of this situation: isolation and media information, thought here in connection. Theoretical and methodological discussions take place from Social Psychology, where the concept of collective memory will be applied to fragments of narratives available on social networks, newspapers and TV on the theme of Coronavirus. The proposal is based on the experience of isolation and the crossing of media information from representatives of four different discursive spheres: economic, scientific, political and popular, to analyze the perception of the health crisis that now presents itself in opposition to the fragments of collective memory present in these same speeches. It seeks to recognize the effects of isolation in connection with the transmission of simultaneous information, in a virtual space-time relationship that changes thoughts and behaviors in everyday space-time-home; interferes in global economies and, we suspect, will interfere in the formation of social identity, because if we admit that memory forms identity, we can ask the following question: what will this current collective memory, of transition, represent in the formation of Brazilian and global social identity? Changes in the world of work, education, science and social, political, governmental, and economic relations that were expected to develop in at least a decade as an expectation (memory of the future) by specialists, start to occur in just over weeks. Nowadays our space-time has suffered a huge collapse. How does isolation, in a context of networked information and dizzying changes, affect this formation of identity? Discussing this set of phenomena and how it interferes with mental, economic and social health is our objective and, we believe, it contributes to the mobilization of the scientific network to think and produce, intellectually, about the scenario we are living in and that reflect on coping with COVID -19, in Brazil.