Abstract:
To capture how student youths understood the main problems and solutions in the pandemic, qualitative research verified all 282 news published between March 2020 and September 2021 on the virtual pages of two large student organizations in Brazil and Argentina: the National Union of Students (União Nacional dos Estudantes, UNE) and the Argentine University Federation (Federación Universitaria Argentina, FUA). The results show similarities and differences in the way the two organizations perceived the most important issues in their countries during the period. While in Argentina, even during the pandemic, the news was mostly about rescuing the memory of the dictatorship, in Brazil the biggest concern was with income and lives threatened by the poor handling of the pandemic by the Bolsonaro government. In terms of similarities, the two organizations expressed concern about gender inequalities, reaffirming the importance of this agenda in recent years.
Keywords:
Student youth; Student movement; Feminism; Pandemic