As The Informational Dynamics of content published by the Governments of Ceará, Maranhão and Pernambuco and the relationship with statistics for coronavirus

Abstract

This article sought to identify the information dynamics of the official profiles of the governments of states from Brazil’s northeast region - Ceará, Maranhão and Pernambuco - regarding the dissemination of information during the Covid-19 world pandemic. Therefore, a categorization of the information conveyed was carried out to reflect about the volume of information and to assess the dynamics of its contents and their relationship with the statistical data of infected people and deaths rates in those states. Methodologically, a categorization of the official Instagram publications from each government was carried out, followed by a social network analysis, which has a qualitative and quantitative approach, to map interactions and the analysis of relationship patterns and information flow within the data collected. This allowed us to understand the communication in the context of organizations from a relational and procedural perspective. From this, it was concluded that most of the publications have content related to measures to combat Covid-19, which denotes a concern of states’ governments to demonstrate to the population their formal actions to minimize the impacts caused by the new coronavirus. In addition, the result ratified Pernambuco as the most transparent state in relation to the dissemination of data and information about the cases of the disease in the state.