Percepciones sobre la infodemia en el contexto de un sindicato de un curso de extensión

Abstract

In 2020, we live in obscure times of a health crisis due to the Sars-CoV-2 syndemic that opened up perverse social inequality and the inability to provide all basic public services with the legitimation of necropolitics and nefarious arguments. There was also a vertiginous growth of information, which was transmitted mainly by social media, with a global reach and which was not always accurate. In the midst of this scenario, an extension course was promoted in order to facilitate the dialogue and exchange of knowledge between the community and the university, thus overcoming the discourse of academic hegemony and replacing it with the idea of ​​an alliance with movements, sectors and social organizations. In this work, the speeches of the course participants in relation to the texts produced during the course were analyzed, taking as a pillar the content analysis of Bardin (2002). Participants pondered, among other aspects, about underreporting, social inequality and the search for reliable information. We conclude with the understanding of the importance of facing the verb to hope as an imperative; not as a way to conform, but to resist and try to seek solutions together.