With a preface by Professor Cristina Costa, founder of OBCOM and its coordinator until 2020, the e-book “Communication, Media and Freedom of Expression in the 21st Century: Censorship Modes, Resistances and Emerging Debates” was published in 2021 by Intercom and Gênero Editora ( here: https://www.portalintercom.org.br/uploads/wysiwyg/comunicacao-midias-e-liberdade-de-expressa-no-seculo-xxi.pdf).
Organized by Nara Lya Cabral Scabin and Andrea Limberto Leite, who are also coordinators of the Research Group (GP) “Communication, Media and Freedom of Expression” of the Brazilian Society for Interdisciplinary Communication Studies (Intercom), the book is divided into four parts and has two chapters written by members of OBCOM.
Part I is composed of articles that discuss the “Emerging debates, rights and disputed discourses”; part II, Populisms and authoritarianisms of the 21st century, where Daniela Osvald Ramos and Carla de Araujo Risso, current coordinators of OBCOM, published chapter 8, “Modulation of populism, code regime and space on platforms: the case of presidential elections in Portugal”. Part III, “Silences repositioned on digital platforms and in Journalism”, has the chapter by José Ismar Petrola Jorge Filho, “From censorship in the alternative press to post-censorship in network communication and fake news”. The book ends in part IV: “Resistance, activism and citizen voices in the public arena”.