Multiplatform and live streaming in pandemic years from Brazil: the case of the Thematic Representation of Information Seminar (SERTINF

Abstract

Problem: How do the participants of the four remote editions of SERTINF evaluate the seminar, from the point of view of their own commitment to the event and its scope? Objective: to evaluate the levels of participants’ adherence to those events and the scope of the four remote editions of SERTINF. Justification: COVID-19 pandemic has brought the need of adaptation to society, including the university, towards the search for solutions. In that scenario, an alliance has been developed between the extension project Plurissaberes Channel, the Human Sciences Library of the Federal University of Ceará (UFC), and the subject Thematic Representation of Information, from the Undergraduate Librarianship Course (UFC), in order to enable the continuity of the SERTINF remotely. Methodology: Exploratory research. Analysis of the evaluation forms and the chats of the transmissions on YouTube during the remote editions of the SERTINF. Results: the general evaluation obtained: Excellent (8.7%) and in chat: “Excellent presentations”, “It was an incredible event”, “wonderful great” (sic), besides using the language of cyberspace. We conclude that, despite the pandemic, the remote editions of SERTINF were successfully carried out by those who were involved in this alliance made by Plurissaberes Channel, the Human Sciences Library of the Federal University of Ceará, the speakers and the participants in Brazil and other countries and that the evaluation of remote events need to consider verbal and non-verbal discourses, such as the signs and languages of the cyberspace.