WMIDS 2020: proceedings of the 1st workshop on Media, Information and Data Science

The main purpose of this project is to encourage discussion about the use of technologies for the generation of information in the media context. Therefore, discussions will be held on current and highly relevant topics for the areas of Information and Communication, also considering its interdisciplinarity with Marketing, Journalism, Public Relations, Library Science, Business Management, and Computer Science. Discussions of great scientific and social relevance are addressed, such as disinformation, public policies, data opening, among others. The 1st Workshop on Media, Information and Data Science (WMIDS 2020) proved to be an environment of opportunity for great debates, with the participation of researchers of the highest level, united in an effort for the progress of science in Brazil. Throughout the event, it was possible to note the ability of science and its researchers to reinvent themselves and adapt at a time when social isolation, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, could become an obstacle or a counterpoint to the development of knowledge. All of this is the result of the joint effort of people who believe that knowledge is one of the main tools for human development, in all its specificities.