STATISTICS IN A TIME OF CRISIS
Statistics in a Time of Crisis project belongs to Research Line 1 — Media, Culture and Technology.
Synopsis: This project aims to understand how the Covid-19 pandemic was covered by the media, how statistics served as a basis for news and its contextualization. We will analyze the expressive resources used on the covers of main Portuguese newspapers, trying to assess the place occupied, in the construction of representations of that exceptional moment, by word or iconography, in its various expressions, whether photos, drawings, graphics and infographics. In addition to newspaper covers, we will also look at news related to covid-19. This analysis has two main objectives; analyze the tone of the news (positive, negative or neutral) and the role of numbers in the Covid-19 news.
Fund: Polytechnic of Lisbon (IPL)
Coordinator: Prof. PHD Cláudia Silvestre (csilvestre@escs.ipl.pt)
Project Status: Concluded
Results:
• Communications:
Silvestre C. e Meireles, A. (2021, 25-28 de agosto) Survey on student stress during blended learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [Comunicação oral]. Education, Research &Development (conferência online).
Silvestre C. e Meireles, A. (2021, 8-9 de março) Learning statistics using infographics: A powerful tool to engage communication students in learning activities. [Comunicação oral]. INTED2021-15th International Technology, Education and Development Conference (conferência online).
Silvestre, C & Barros, J. L. (2020, dezembro). Estatísticas e Jornalismo em Tempo de Pandemia. Comunicação apresentada no MEISTUDIES – 3º Congresso Internacional Media Ecology and Image Studies – Democracia, meios e pandemia (conferência online), 1 a 31 de dezembro de 2020.
Silvestre, C. & Meireles, A. (2020, novembro). O poder da infografia o ensino da Estatística. Comunicação apresentada na 10.ª Conferência FORGES: O Ensino Superior na Era Digital nos Países e Regiões de Língua Portuguesa: Desafios e Propostas. Universidade de Évora, Portugal (conferência online), 18 a 20 novembro 2020.
• Publications:
Silvestre, C. (2021). Números e jornalismo durante a Pandemia de Covid-19. Comunicação Pública, 16(31). (https://doi.org/10.34629/cpublica.245)
Article available at: https://journals.ipl.pt/cpublica/article/view/245/195
Silvestre, C. & Frazão, P. (2021). COVID-19 news a way to promote statistics classes. Proceedings of ICERI2021 - 14th annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation. ISBN: 978-84-09-34549-6, pp 9574-9578.
Extended summary available at: https://library.iated.org/view/SILVESTRE2021COV
Silvestre C. e Meireles, A. (2021) Learning statistics using infographics: A powerful tool to engage communication students in learning activities. 15th International Technology, Education and Development Conference – INTED2021 Proceedings, p. 7074-7081.
Barros, J. L. e Silvestre, C (2020). Estatísticas e Jornalismo em Tempo de Pandemia. In R. Paulino e C. Rodrigues-Hidalgo, Jornalismo Sociedade e pandemia. Ria Editorial, Aveiro, Portugal, p. 107-134.