Presentation

The Public Communication Observatory was implemented in 2015 with resources from the Public Notice MCTI/CNPQ/MEC/CAPES – No. 43/2013, linked to the Nucleus for Research in Public and Political Communication (NUCOP), under the responsibility of researcher professor Maria Helena Weber. It works with the support of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, through the Faculty of Library Science and Communication, the Graduate Program in Communication and the Data Processing Center, which houses this website.

The implementation of OBCOMP was also supported by the Research Group on Organizational Communication, Culture and Power Relations (GCCOP) and, until 2021, was under the executive coordination of journalist Ana Javes Luz, PhD in Communication and Information (PPGCOM/UFRGS).

Currently, it is maintained as a teaching, research and extension project that integrates researchers, professors, undergraduate and graduate students and volunteers linked to four Brazilian universities - Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS); Federal University of Pelotas (UFPel); Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC); Federal University of Santa Maria, campus of Frederico Westphalen (UFSM/FW) - and the French university Sorbonne Nouvelle. In three universities (UFRGS, UFSC and UFSM/FW and UFPel), it was transformed into an Extension project.

OBCOMP participates in research networks that defend communication as a human right, educational process, cultural reference and with political and social responsibilities. They are:

• INCT.DD – National Institute of Science and Technology in Digital Democracy
• Latin American Network of Chairs and Observatories on Communication and Information, Culture and Social Development
• RNCD - National Network to Combat Disinformation
• RENOI - National Network of Press Observatories

The importance of OBCOMP has been registered through the participation of its members in lectures and debates, in which the Observatory itself is approached as a theme, and also through the following scientific articles:

• Light, Ana Javes. Observation, criticism and public communication in the face of the pandemic. In: Laura Ferreira Guerra, Ana Javes Luz, Nísia Martins do Rosário, Paula Viegas (Organizers). Communication horizons: experiences, interviews and transcreations in the pandemic. Porto Alegre: Imaginalis, 2021 (p. 239-253).
• Kegler, Bruno ; Luz, Ana Javes; Pozzobon, Rejane. Society of Platforms and the challenges for Public Communication: the OBCOMP case. LIINC EM REVISTA, v. 17, 2021.
• Luz, Ana Javes; Weber, Maria Helena. Public Communication Observatory: experience, research, criticism and citizenship. In: Ana Taís Martins; Camila Freitas. (Org.). Communicational research in interface with art, technology, religion, environment. São Paulo: Pimenta Cultural, 2021 (p.19-37).
• Weber, Maria Helena; Light, Ana Javes. Public Communication Observatory: research, criticism and citizenship. Communication & Innovation (online), v. 18, p. 01-17, 2017.

The activities of OBCOMP went beyond the website when the organization began to occupy, monthly, the space of criticism in the Jornal da Universidade, linked to the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, between March 2021 and June 2022. unique in institutional journalism in the country, it strengthened the principles of public communication - inherent to public university communication - by contributing to the evaluation of contents addressed in the JU, allowing debates on ethics, journalistic practice and the role of the university in the dissemination of information and knowledge. 16 columns were produced until its suspension in 2022, on the grounds that the OBCOMP column violated electoral legislation.

Throughout 2022, the Observatory's administrative and technical restructuring has been carried out, in order to expanduse of its contents and access network, through a new digital design.

Public Communication is a normative concept for the communication of democracies, considering the public interest and the right to communication as republican principles.

Since its creation in 2015, OBCOMP has contributed to strengthen the field of communication, specifically the area of ​​public communication, political communication and government communication. The contents and practices comply with objectives determined by five normative principles:

I - PUBLIC COMMUNICATION: promote the understanding that public communication is immanent to the democratic state and public institutions;

II - PUBLIC INTEREST AND CITIZENSHIP: give visibility to topics of public interest in the media, public and private campaigns, communication products, opinions, manifestations and deliberations;

III - PUBLIC DEBATE: promote debate on controversial and sensitive topics promoted by scientific production, articles, interviews, information and others;

IV - RESEARCH AND SCIENTIFIC DISSEMINATION: monitor, capture, classify and disseminate information on scientific production and social knowledge;

V - EDUCATIONAL PRACTICE AND EXTENSION: develop inter-institutional work aimed at learning and extension processes that expand the responsibility of universities.

The Observatório da Comunicação Pública complies with the normative principles and objectives expressed in the published contents that constitute sections managed by researchers and professors who coordinate undergraduate and graduate students, scholarship holders of Scientific Initiation, of Extension and volunteers.

The OBCOMP Sections are linked to the General Coordination and have autonomy regarding the management and production of content, in accordance with the approval of the semester plan and evaluation processes.

The organization of OBCOMP is defined as follows:

• Advisory Board
• General Coordination
• Sector Coordination
  • Editorial Production
    • Doctoral and Master's Students
    • Institutional scholarship holders
    • Volunteer Fellows

The Advisory Board is made up of researchers, professors and citizens with activities relevant to communication and the public interest, with the following attributions: consultancy; institutional support; advice to general coordination.

The General Coordination has a deliberative function with the following attributions: relations with the Advisory Board; management of Sectorial Coordinations; periodic evaluation of OBCOMP; people management; management of technical and financial resources; ensure compliance with the principles of Public Communication; ensure compliance with the objectives of OBCOMP; institutional representation; management of linked Extension projects; production of editorials and dissemination of OBCOMP.

The Sectoral Coordination Offices are responsible for coordinating the sections of OBCOMP, creation, production, content development and personnel management, and administer the following sections: Agenda and Dissemination; Library; Gallery; News; Opinion & Criticism and Path & Knowledge.

The Editorial Production includes content production and editing processes developed by teams of graduate and undergraduate students, Scientific Initiation and Extension scholarship holders, volunteer students, graduates of the institutions involved, guests and volunteers, at different levels:

-   PhD, Master and graduate students: linked to NUCOP and Postgraduate programs of the institutions involved;

-   Institutional Scholars: holders of IC and Extension scholarships or other;

-   Volunteer Scholars: students in activities without remuneration;

ADVISORY BOARD

Adriana Montanaro (NUCOP)
Ana Regina Rego (UFPI)
Angela Cristina Marques (UFMG)
Carlise Schneider (UFSM)
Céli Regina Pinto (UFRGS)
Christa Berger (Unisinos)
Heloiza Matos (USP)
João Pissarra Esteves (New University of Lisbon)
Laura Guerra (NUCOP)
Luis Felipe Abreu (UFRGS)
Marcelo Parker (NUCOP)
Márcio Simeone (UFMG)
Maira Baumgarten (UFRGS)
Maria Ataíde Malcher (UFPA)
Maria das Graças P Coelho (UFRN)
Maria Patrícia Tellez (Javeriana University / Colombia)
Marja Pfeiffer Coelho (INCRA)
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Mauro Pereira Porto (Tulane University, USA)
Moisés Rochembach (UFRGS)< br />Nair Yumiko Kobashi (USP))
Pedro Luis Osório link ??
Regina Lima (UFPA)
Rudimar Baldissera (UFRGS)
Sandra de Deus (UFRGS)
Sandra Eliane Bitencourt Genro (INP)
Silas de Paula (Museum of Image and Sound CE)
Sonia Caregnato (UFRGS)
Suzy Santos (UFRJ)
Vera Regina França (UFMG)
Wilson Gomes (UFBA)
Zelia Leal Adghirni (UnB)

GENERAL COORDINATION

Coordination: Maria Helena Weber (UFRGS)
Executive Coordination: Fiorenza Zandonade Carnielli (UFRGS)
Institutional Coordination: Ana Javes Luz (NUCOP)
Evaluation Coordination: Maria Berenice Machado (UFRGS)

SECTORIAL COORDINATORIES

Library: Janaina Gomes (UFSM/FW) and Maria Berenice Machado (UFRGS)
Gallery: Sandra Maria Gonçalves (UFRGS)
News: Basilio Alberto Sartor (UFRGS) and Carlos Locatelli (UFSC)< br />Opinion & Criticism: Camila César (Sorbonne) and Caroline Casali (UFPel)
Percurso & Knowledge: Marlise Viegas Brenol (NUCOP)
Agenda and Disclosure: Fiorenza Zandonade Carnielli (UFRGS)

EDITORIAL PRODUCTION

Carlos Augusto de França Rocha Júnior (UFRGS)
Daniela Danielli (UFRGS)
Marisvaldo Lima (UFSC)
Muriel Felten (UFRGS)
Renatha Giordani (UFSC)
Taise Souza Barfknecht (UFRGS)
Thiane Silveira de Ávila (NUCOP)

INSTITUTIONAL SCHOLARSHIP HOLDERS

Fernanda Bellini Pinto (PPGCOM/UFRGS)
Júlia Cardoso Nunes (UFRGS)
Raquel Teixeira Pereira ( UFSM/FW)

VOLUNTARY SCHOLARSHIPS

Aline Moreira Petry (UFSM/FW)
Beatriz Moro (UFRGS)
Gabriela Ferreira de Menezes (UFSM/FW)
Leda Evangelista Braidoti (UFSM/FW)
Luiza Pinto Pereira (UFSM/FW)
Rafael Mairesse de Castro (UFRGS)
Simony Gomes Grave (UFSM/FW)
Tainara Lais Teixeira Pompermaier Gonçalves (UFSM/FW)
Vanessa Pereira Carvalho (UFSM/FW)

The Public Communication Observatory is digital and has the functions of observing, monitoring, researching, classifying, storing and disseminating information, scientific production, opinions, images, advertising and journalistic products related to political public communication , the media and government communication, through the following sections:

OPINION & CRITICISM

Dissemination of opinion, criticism and reflection texts of an essayistic nature on topics related to the objectives of OBCOMP and the field of Communication. The texts must be submitted for evaluation, editing and publication, considering the ethical issues and the pertinence of the topic addressed, through the e-mail: obcomp.ufrgs@gmail. .com

COURSE & KNOWLEDGE

Space for the production of records on the historical path and production of researchers, professors, professionals and citizens who contribute, with their scientific production, practices and knowledge to communicational thinking and democracy. The section favors interviews, conferences, public classes and testimonials, and, in the interviews mode, guests will be questioned by researchers and people relevant to their career. Interviewees and interviewers are related, especially, to the constitution of the field of communication in Brazil and internationally.

NEWS

Research, write and periodically publish information and news related to topics relevant to communication and democracy. These are topics of public interest, especially:

-   News and events of public interest;

-   News and events about public, political and governmental communication;

-   Debates on topics of public interest;

-   Coverage of events and debates of public interest;

-   Social demonstrations and public opinion;

-   Publications and editorial products relevant to the field of communication.

GALLERY

Distinctive space with its own curatorship, intended for the exhibition and dissemination of photographic and artistic works, produced by guest artists. The works remain on the site for a previously determined time and are intended to illustrate the site, in their own panel, and can be linked to content in different sections.

LIBRARY

Accessible space for research with the availability of information and scientific production, related to topics of public communication, political communication, social communication and government communication, as well as advertising campaigns and public interest , organized like this:

Scientific Publications

• Anais. Articles. Books. Periodicals. Researches. Theses and Dissertations.
• Research Groups.

Institutions

• Public Media. Legislation.

Public Media

• News Agencies. Press. Radio. Television. Observatories. Websites.

Institutions

• Entities. Executive power. Legislative power. Judiciary.

Legislation

• Constitution. Legislation pertaining to communication and media. Laws in debate.
• Communication Legislation. Public interest legislation.
• Professional legislation in communication.

Advertising and Public Interest

• History and Propaganda
• Social Advertising
• Government Propaganda
• Electoral Propaganda
• Party-political propaganda

AGENDA AND DISCLOSURE

Publication of an agenda with dates, events and activities of public interest, concerning the objectives of OBCOMP. It covers the periodic dissemination of OBCOMP contents, in accordance with the responsible coordination, through available means: website, social networks, targeted communications and others.