Revisión de la producción académica abierta sobre comunicación y pandemia en Argentina y México

Abstract

Beyond its health and biological dimensions, the COVID-19 pandemic was a socially complex event in terms of communication and information. The aim of this study was to describe the open access academic production of Argentina and Mexico on communication and the pandemic. We surveyed (from March 2020 to October 2023) databases and libraries, and then systematized the articles with the bibliographic management software, Zotero. The corpus (n=101) was analyzed using a self-made protocol aimed to compare the production volume and the thematic distribution between both countries, as well as the methodological approach used. The results show a preponderance of papers focusing on “media consumption” in Argentina and “public perception” in Mexico, and a minority on gender. Methodologically, most of the papers are empirical, qualitative in nature and with a more descriptive than propositional purpose. Our results show the urgent need to generate interdisciplinary academic research capabilities to provide evidence-based proposals at the likely occurrence of a new phenomenon that puts global health at risk again soon. To facilitate the capitalization of experiences and capacities, an open access library resulting from this work is shared.