Câmara de eco no Brasil: novas perspectivas sobre o consumo de informações na pandemia de Covid-19

Maria Ayeska Andrade Echegaray; Pedro Santos Mundim

doi:10.5007/1984-6924.2025.e105165

Autores

Maria Ayeska Andrade Echegaray Universidade Federal de Goiás https://orcid.org/0009-0002-0197-9292
Pedro Santos Mundim Universidade Federal de Goiás https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7537-5152

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/1984-6924.2025.e105165

Palavras-chave:

Câmara de eco, Informação customizada, Covid-19, multimeios, comunicação

Resumo

A personalização do consumo informacional pelos meios e veículos de comunicação, tanto on-line como off-line, contribui para polarizar opiniões e gerar as câmaras de eco. Nosso estudo analisou dados brasileiros coletados durante a pandemia de Covid-19 revelando que a mídia tradicional contribuiu mais para formação e permanência da câmara de eco, especialmente entre indivíduos menos escolarizados, menos interessados em política e que declararam como evangélicos. Ainda que a abrangência do fenômeno fosse menor que o esperado e que o fator identitário, no caso a religião, tivesse mais peso que o espectro ideológico e que as preferências políticas e/ou partidárias. Surpreendentemente, os meios digitais, como mecanismos de busca, redes sociais e aplicativos de mensagens etc. demonstraram a tendência a tirar as pessoas da câmara de eco.

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