PANDEMIDIA: Viruses, Contaminations and Confinements - the urgency of thinking about the effects of the pandemic in contemporary media

Book in digital format, containing unpublished contributions of essays in texts, imagery and audiovisual essays, testimonies, reflections, fictions, etc. A collection that brings reflections - scientific, artistic and media - about the effects caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, in the relationship between society and audiovisual resources. Through a volume that contemplates in its chapters issues that have the media, audiovisual, science, virtual spheres and languages ​​that surround them in a conceptual center, this e-Book proposes to embrace the contradictions that come with such an event and give vent to seminal reflections on a new world that unfolds. We understand that the phenomenon we call PANDEMÍDIA did not start with the coronavirus, but is happening as a reflection of the digital revolution, which has brought with it a profusion of screens (such as computers, cell phones, tablets and TV sets) to contemporary life, which now makes possible the isolation we experience today. This hypothesis allows us to ask whether the imposed social distancing would be possible - practically, socially and subjectively - if there were no technological mediations and their devices. In the urgent need to reflect on the world and, consequently, its natural, cultural, political and social ecosystems, which we know will no longer be the same, PANDEMÍDIA invites reflection on the media aspects of this new world condition