The project “Composing worlds: humanities, health and well-being in the 21st century” aims to build a network of experts in the humanities, social and health sciences, who think about health and well-being in contemporary technological societies. The relevance of this project is based on the growing evidence that most of the problems that the 21st century will face, particularly in the area of health and well-being, relate to the way in which humans connect to the environment, to non-human beings, to different cultures and to technologies. Its main goal is to bring out personal and well-founded ideas on these issues and to reflect on how the humanities may help with difficult environmental, social and technological issues. The methodology used in the first phase of the project consists of an open answer interview, built in a participatory way by the network of experts, and of a thematic analysis of the answers. It is an exploratory research project, which uses thematic analysis to identify the key ideas of each author, and to induce the corresponding main themes. The themes are then organized by semantic correspondence into thematic clusters. The thematic axes are abstracted from these clusters, and they constitute the vectors to be developed in the second phase of the project, by proposing their integration into university curricula, research and intervention of social, cultural and community outreach. Some of these developments are already in place.
ResumoNeste artigo, dividido em duas partes, discute-se a validade, e a possibilidade, do discurso científico num contexto governado pelo mediatismo e imediatismo da comunicação. Na primeira parte é feito um breve excurso a propósito de questões epistemológicas. Na segunda parte, através de um exercício de natureza empírica, procura demonstar-se que a excessiva mediatização da informação impede uma visão criteriosa e fundamentada dos acontecimentos, ou seja, impede, mesmo em contexto académico, uma narrativa minimamente científica.Palavras-chave: discurso científico; discurso mediático; imediatismo; inteligibilidade.
AbstractAbstract: in this paper, divided in two parts, we discuss the validity and the possibility of scientific discourse within a context ruled by mediatization and immediacy in communication. In the first part, a brief incursion is undertaken on the issue of epistemological matters. In the second part, by means of an empirically minded exercise, we attempt to demonstrate that the excessive mediatization of information prevents an accurate and properly grounded view of the events, that is, it hinders, even within an academic context, the scientific character of narratives.
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