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This article discusses the use of scientific facts as argument for a 1999 Brazilian debate about the legitimacy of an official aids prevention policy. It seeks to defamiliarized a common Aids argumentative practice which uses a classification of a scientific public health measure as a main legitimacy judgment. It is argued that it is peoples' negotiations and objects' mobilization that gives legitimacy to the implementation of a prevention strategy - according to a Social Psychology of science with a constructionist point of view.

Nas últimas décadas, os modelos de comunicação passaram por mudanças significativas. Com isso, a popularização e o acesso a novos mecanismos de comunicabilidade possibilitaram que um crescente número de indivíduos e coletivos pudesse produzir, trocar e disseminar conteúdos. Neste cenário, as produções audiovisuais passam a ganhar espaço em setores alternativos e populares. Para os povos indígenas, a apropriação dos meios de comunicação, sobretudo os de produção audiovisual, emergem como canais expressivos para a preservação da memória coletiva e autodeterminação. Neste estudo, apresentamos um percurso cartográfico sobre o advento da mídia indígena, dando relevo ao uso da produção audiovisual enquanto subterfúgio relevante no processo contínuo de resistência e luta pela aquisição e garantia de direitos.

Introducción a la charla: "¿A qué llamamos ficciones?: ciencias sociales y ciencia ficción" que los autores organizaron en la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona en Abril de 2004 donde estaban presentes: Alejo Cuervo (editor de la revista de ciencia ficción Gigamesh), Helena Torres & Desiré Rodrigo (Estudiosas del cyberfeminismo), Francisco Tirado (profesor UAB), Martin Mora (profesor Universidad de Guadalajara [México]) y varios colegas (alumnos y profesores) que compusieron la riqueza de la discusión final. ; Preliminary notes on: What do we call fictions? Social science and science fiction. A conference held at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona on April 2004 by Alejo Cuervo (Gigamesh science fiction paper editor), Helena Torres & Desiré Rodrigo (Cyberfeminism researchers), Francisco Tirado (UAB lecturer), Martín Mora (Universidad de Guadalajara [Mexico], lecturer) and many other Ph.D students and lecturers that were of great help during the act.

En este texto comentaremos algunos puntos en los que se ha profundizado durante la discusión entre los asistentes a la charla. Esto no es un intento para elaborar los enunciados que allí surgieron sino que pretende recogerlos (aunque de forma resumida) bajo la forma en que se expresaron entonces en las condiciones de nuestra escucha reciente limitada enormemente por la calidad del audio. ; In thissection we will debate some issues that have been discussed by people present at the conference. We have tried not to alter the original discussion in order to keep it as close to the points of view expressed there. However, we have reassembled those considering related meanings that emerged during our last listening to the tape recorder.

Drone Art brings a broad range of research projects that do not have an agenda in common. This emergent Art brings an opportunity to examine social justice, democracy, and ethical issues, and also helps us to observe the connections between art, culture, ideology and power. Moreover, it also confronts the emergent kinds of armed conflicts around the world. This article is a cartography of Drone Art projects characterized as a strategy of resistance, as a way to criticize the use of drones in military conflicted areas and civil life. In recent years, the controversial use of drones called the attention of artists with different technical backgrounds and nationalities. The artistic products created by them are paintings, photographs, urban interventions, dance, fashion vestments and interactive online applications.