Revista Intercom - Brazilian Journal of Communication Sciences is a publication of the Sociedade Brazileira de Estudos Interdisciplinares da Comunicação (Intercom).  Published since 1978, it has steadily improved as a scientific journal and has been published regularly and uninterruptedly since its foundation.

Revista Intercom is the oldest of the Communication journals currently in circulation. Since the 1980s, when it was one of only four journals in existence at the time, it has been an important space for scientific dissemination and the democratization of knowledge, contributing to advances and debates in and about the field of Communication. It is currently one of the main publications in the field, and the first to be accredited by the main international indexing databases.

In order to guarantee its qualification as a journal, which is a requirement for entry and permanence in indexing databases such as SciELO and Latindex, among others, Revista Intercom has a qualified and diverse Editorial Board, in terms of geography and gender. It also has careful evaluation and editorial processes, prioritizing good practices and ethics in scientific research.

The abbreviated title of the journal, which should be used in bibliographies, footnotes, references and bibliographic strips, is Intercom.

Revista Intercom follows the Gold Open Access model. The Open Science movement proposes guidelines for collaborative, shared and public scientific practice. In line with the Open Science guidelines, Revista Intercom adopts a series of practices, such as the open access policy, the code of good practice for editors and the use of social networks to disseminate published work.

In addition, it requires the precise indication of the role of each of the authors in articles with multiple authorship, encourages the sharing of analysis data sets, instruments, statistical analysis scripts, scripts and additional materials, made available in open online repositories, such as Zenodo, Figshare, NADAC, QDR and OSF.

When submitting the manuscript, we ask that you fill in the "Open Science Compliance Form", in which the authors share with the journal information about the manuscript in accordance with Open Science communication practices.

If such data cannot be published in the work itself, this information should be indicated in the manuscript, taking into account the principle that articles reporting research should indicate and reference the availability of the content underlying the research and the results obtained.

Revista Intercom encourages the publication of preprint articles on public platforms, such as Preprints, SciELO Preprints and EmeRI, so that, where appropriate, they can be discussed openly before being published.

Also in line with open science practices, the journal offers authors and reviewers the option of opening up the peer review process, with or without identifying their names. Authorization to disclose the name can be given by the authors when submitting the article and by the reviewers when filling in the Evaluation Form on compliance with Open Science.

In the event of publication of the evaluations on which the decision to publish the article was based, they may be edited by the journal's editorial board.

The contribution of section editors is duly credited in the published article. Reviewers receive a statement of opinion on the manuscript and can also validate the activity in Publons or Reviewer Credit.

Revista Intercom is dedicated to complying with good practices and follows norms and recommendations for ethical standards and responsibility in scientific communication established by national and international institutions, including: Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq), Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), Fapesp e o Guia de Boas Práticas para o Fortalecimento da Ética na Publicação Científica (SciELO).

Revista Intercom is committed to ethics and quality in publishing. We conform to standards of ethical behavior expected of all parties involved: authors, editors and reviewers in publishing. Authors, Editors and Reviewers are encouraged to study and follow all the rules of good practice in scientific research.

It is also expected that all articles reporting research with human beings will contain relevant information on ethical procedures, with proof of approval by the Ethics Committee attached when submitting the article, in accordance with human research regulations.

Any form of unethical behavior, as well as plagiarism in any instance, is not accepted by the journal. Authors who submit articles to the journal declare that their content is original and guarantee that the work has not been published or is in the process of being reviewed/evaluated in any other journal.

In order to promote the predominance of originality in its texts, Revista Intercom adopts programs to check for duplicates with texts that have already been published.

As a way of defending the ethical behavior of all parties involved in the publishing process, we have listed some of the policies we have adopted in this regard.

Duties of Editors-in-Chief:

• any unethical manifestation identified in the scientific papers published in Revista Intercom can be brought to the editor's attention at any time, by anyone, as long as there is sufficient information and evidence for an investigation to be initiated;
• all necessary attempts should be made to obtain a resolution to the problem; in any case, the author should be given the opportunity to respond to any allegations;
• inform or notify the author or reviewer where it appears that there has been any misunderstanding or misapplication of acceptable standards;
• decide to retract or formally withdraw publication from the magazine.

Duties of Executive Editors:

• analyze all the articles received, and is responsible for rejecting or accepting the articles based on the opinions;
• guarantee the desired quality standards, in line with the journal's objectives and its respective sections;
• avoid bad practices and unethical behavior, especially plagiarism and fraudulent information;
• to select the evaluators/judges appropriately, taking into account the thematic affinity with the articles and the production and respectability of the evaluators/judges in the academic-scientific environment;
• ensure that articles are peer-reviewed in order to guarantee the quality of scientific publication, justifying any major deviation from the evaluation process;
• to evaluate submitted manuscripts based solely on their importance, originality, clarity and relevance to the scientific field, without considering the race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, nationality or political and/or ideological philosophy of the authors;
• avoid disclosing any information about a submitted manuscript, except to the referees and editorial advisors;
• prevent the use of unpublished material disclosed in a submitted manuscript in their own research without the express written consent of the author;
• prevent commercial interests from compromising intellectual standards;
• take appropriate action when ethical complaints are made about a submitted manuscript or published article, being willing to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies where necessary;
• refuse to evaluate manuscripts in which I have conflicts of interest due to competitive, collaborative or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies or institutions linked to the manuscripts;
• ensure that published research material complies with internationally accepted ethical guidelines, reserving the right to ask for guidance from the Scientific Committee appointed in this journal, should the need arise;
• take all necessary measures in the event of suspected unethical behavior. This duty extends to both published and unpublished work.

 Duties of reviewers:

• to help editors make editorial decisions and, through communications, to help authors improve their articles;
• notify the editors immediately if you do not feel qualified to analyze the article or if you feel that it would be impossible to read the work immediately;
• treat the work received for analysis by the editors or the author(s) as confidential documents, and it is forbidden to expose the manuscripts to the appreciation of third parties;
• consider the relevance, correctness, originality, topicality of the discussions and references, suitability for the field of knowledge, methodological rigor and quality standards of the publication;
• fill in all the items on the evaluation form received together with the article to be evaluated;
• keep privileged information or ideas obtained from reading the manuscripts confidential and not use them for personal gain;
• conduct opinions objectively, expressing their points of view clearly, supported by arguments;
• identify relevant published works that were not cited by the authors;
• bring to the attention of the editors any suspicion of plagiarism or self-plagiarism, pointing out any other published or submitted article of which they are aware that is substantially similar to the work under review;
• refuse to evaluate manuscripts in which I have conflicts of interest due to competitive, collaborative or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies or institutions linked to the manuscripts.

Authors' duties:

• must be academic researchers, engaged in serious and systematic work in their specific fields and subfields;
• declare, when submitting the article, that its content is original, that it has not been published or submitted to any other publication, in any language;
• identify (if applicable) institutions and agencies that supported the research financially;
• ensure that all articles reporting research with human beings contain relevant information on ethical procedures, attaching proof of approval by the Ethics Committee when submitting;
• present an accurate account of the work carried out, as well as an objective discussion of its significance; the article should contain sufficient detail and references to enable others to replicate the work;
• give due credit to the authors of the works cited;
• not publishing manuscripts that essentially describe the same research in more than one journal; sending the same manuscript to more than one journal at the same time and/or publishing the same article in more than one journal constitutes unethical and unacceptable editorial behavior;
• list the names of all co-authors who had a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution or interpretation of the reported study. The lead author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors are included in the article; they should also make sure that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the manuscript and have agreed to its submission for publication. People who had a hand in the research project should be listed as collaborators;
• immediately inform the editor of the journal or the member of the Editorial Board of knowledge of a significant error or inaccuracy in their published work and cooperate with the editor to correct the article;
• commit to working as evaluators (referees) for other articles in their sub-area of knowledge.

Revista Intercom is a publication of the Sociedade Brazileira de Estudos Interdisciplinares da Comunicação (Intercom), focusing on Social Communication, respecting the interdisciplinarity and thematic scope characteristic of this area of knowledge. Its content favors the publication of unpublished articles, experience reports, ongoing research, interviews and reviews related to the Communication Sciences.

Its editorial process involves blind peer review, in which papers are sent to specialists for analysis, in accordance with the criteria of its editorial policy.

Objectives: (a) To promote and disseminate national and international academic scientific research on Communication; (b) To contribute to developing the level of research and university teaching in Communication; (c) To serve as a space for reflection on issues of public interest in the field of Communication.

In 2022, Revista Intercom adopted the modality of continuous publication, which means that the articles approved and edited are immediately published in an annual volume, without the need to close an issue or obey a certain frequency.

Previously, the journal was published every four months, in January, May and September. In the new format, the articles no longer have successive and sequential pagination and now have an elocation-id, a unique electronic identifier for each article in the volume.

This journal follows the standards defined in the SciELO Program's Digital Preservation Policy. The journal is also part of IBICT's Cariniana Digital Preservation Services Network, which provides preservation for any Open Journal System [OJS] journal in Brazil

Databases

• SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online)
• Redalyc (Red de Revistas Científicas de América Latina y el Caribe, España y Portugal)
• Latindex (Sistema Regional de Información en Línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina, el Caribe, España y Portugal)
• Portcom (Portal de Livre Acesso à Produção em Ciências da Comunicação)
• Clase (Citas Latinoamericanas en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades)

Preprint bases

• Preprints
• SciELO Preprints
• EmeRI

Directories/portals

• DOAJ
• Diadorim
• Google Scholar
• Periódicos - Capes
• ROAR (Registry of Open Access Repositories)

Indexes

• IRESIE (Indice de Revistas de Educación Superior e Investigación Educativa/ Base de Datos sobre Educación)
• ProQuest Product/Service – Sociological Abstracts
• Mirabel
• Sudoc (Le catalogue du Système Universitaire de Documentation - France)

• e-ISSN: 1980-3508 (online version) 
• ISSN: 1809-5844 (printed version - discontinued in 2019)
• Journal title: Intercom (São Paulo)
• Short title: Intercom (São Paulo)
• Other variants of the title: Revista Intercom, Rev. Intercom, Revista Brazileira de Ciências da Comunicação;
• Published by: Sociedade Brazileira de Estudos Interdisciplinares da Comunicação (Intercom);
• Frequency: Annual - continuous flow;
• mode of publication: continuous publication;
• Year of creation: 1978

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Revista Intercom accepts the publication of preprint articles and encourages them to be published on public platforms, such as Preprints, SciELO Preprints and EmeRI, so that, where appropriate, they can be discussed openly before being published.

A preprint is a manuscript ready for submission to a journal, deposited on reliable preprint servers before or in parallel with submission to a journal.

The use of the preprint is at the author's option, and it is assumed that when the article is submitted to the journal, using the "Open Science Compliance Form", the name of the preprint server and the DOI of the preprint will be informed.

The articles submitted to preprints share with the journals the unpublished nature of the publication and the evaluation process will not use the double anonymization procedure, since the authorship will be known.

To ensure that preprints submitted to Revista Intercom are treated with transparency and integrity, it is recommended that authors provide the following information:

• Identification of the Preprint: authors must provide information about the preprint, including title, authors, name of the repository where it was published, date of publication and DOI.
• Relation to the Submitted Work: authors should clarify how the preprint is related to the work submitted to the journal, for example, if the preprint is an earlier version or if it contains complementary information.
• Conflict of Interest: authors should inform us if there is any conflict of interest related to the preprint, such as funding from a company or institution with an interest in the work.

This information is important so that the editors can assess the originality and relevance of the work submitted, as well as to avoid duplication or redundant information in subsequent publications.

The originals submitted for consideration via online submission through the Intercom/Portcom website, which uses the Electronic Journal Publishing System - SEER (Open Journal Systems-OJS), are analyzed in a first stage (desk review) by the Editorial Team for compliance with editorial standards, internal coherence of the text, relevance of the content of the original to the editorial line of the journal and contribution to the innovation of knowledge.

Once approved in this initial screening (Desk Review), the evaluation process begins, with the Editorial Team forwarding the manuscript to at least two reviewers in a double-blind system, chosen on the basis of their expertise in the field.

The Executive Editors monitor the entire evaluation process, which can be extended to more than one round if there are different initial opinions. In each round of evaluation, the reviewers contribute to the qualification of the text by writing an opinion on a "specific evaluation form".

The opinions sent by the consultants are analyzed by the Editorial Team for compliance with the publication rules, content and relevance. After this process, they are sent to the authors with an indication of acceptance, reformulation or rejection.

Whenever authors are asked to revise, they must send 3 files: (a) a final version of the article, in a clean file, preferably in .docx or .odt format; (b) a version, preferably in .docx or .odt format, with all the changes made and identified as a revision (altered passages should be marked in a different color and the change control should not be used); (c) a letter to the editors commenting on all the changes made or not accepted (with the appropriate justifications), as instructed by the reviewers.

Once the article has been approved, it will go through the review process, translation by the authors into the second language, and editorial production.

Editorial production includes the stages of receiving the translated article, editing, XML, PDF and HTML layout, final reading and checking by the editors and sending it to the databases.

Therefore, when it comes to so-called Good Editorial Practices, we follow rules of consensus and common sense.  Firstly, we consider the evaluation of the manuscripts received. The text must be sent to a referee chosen from among researchers of recognized competence in the area of knowledge in which the collaboration is being carried out. The name of the consultant must be kept strictly confidential. The review of the articles developed is directed towards ensuring the integrity of the blind peer review. In the "double-blind" reviews adopted by Revista Intercom, neither the name of the author (or authors) nor the names of the reviewers are revealed to each other.

Peer Review Transparency and Optionality Policy

Revista Intercom will publish the names of the editors responsible for the evaluation in the final article. This practice reinforces the journal's commitment to the integrity of the editorial process and recognizes the editors for their crucial role in maintaining the publication's quality standards.

Revista Intercom uses three types of peer review:

• Double-blind evaluation: authors and referees do not know each other's identity.
• Simple-blind evaluation: the authors reveal their identity, but the reviewers remain anonymous.
• Open evaluation: authors and referees know each other's identity.

The standard evaluation method adopted by Revista Intercom is double-blind. However, in the case of preprints, it is not possible to guarantee the anonymity of the authors, so the evaluation can be single-blind or open. We reiterate that opening up the peer review process depends on the agreement of the associate editors and referees involved.

On manuscript processing times

Since July 2024, Revista Intercom has been vigorously improving its internal management processes in order to reduce the time it takes to process manuscripts. The time between receipt and initial screening (desk review) is 30 days. In the case of manuscripts sent for evaluation and approved, the time between receipt and publication can vary between six and 12 months.

Revista Intercom is committed to the guidelines of the Guia para promoção da abertura, transparência e reprodutibilidade das pesquisas publicadas pelos periódicos SciELO (Diretrizes TOP), with the aim of improving the quality and transparency of published research. These guidelines emphasize the importance of clarity in the evidence supporting the conclusions of studies.

To align with these principles, Intercom Journal requests that all datasets associated with submitted manuscripts be accompanied by the "Open Science Compliance Form". This form should be completed in detail by the authors, highlighting how the research adheres to Open Science standards, and submitted as a Supplementary File with the manuscript.

This practice ensures that all relevant data is available for review and analysis, contributing to the integrity and reproducibility of scientific research. Adherence to these guidelines reinforces the journal's commitment to transparency and excellence in scientific publishing.

All data must be properly cited, including the attributions of each author in co-authored articles, program and method codes using digital object identifiers (DOIs), journal citations or other persistent identifiers. Exceptional situations requiring different treatment, such as confidential information under non-disclosure agreements, must be communicated to the editor no later than the manuscript review stage and clearly mentioned in the Acknowledgements (see guidelines for authors).

All the data used in the analysis must be accessible to any researcher with the aim of reproducing or expanding the analysis. The data must be present in the article or deposited in specialized community repositories or in general-purpose repositories. Examples include Zenodo, OSF and the SciELO Data repository. Special situations, such as the protection of privacy or the acquisition of data from third parties, should be discussed with the editor as soon as possible and clearly indicated in the acknowledgements.

Revista Intercom does not charge any fees (Article Processing Charge - APC) for published texts, nor for those submitted for evaluation, review, publication, distribution or download. Publication is completely free and open access.

Revista Intercom complies with the main guidelines of international and national organizations that serve as a reference of principles and good practices on ethics and negligence for scientific publications and is guided by the main ethics practices of Cope, the “Guia SciELO de Boas Práticas para o Fortalecimento da Ética na Publicação Científica” and the “Princípios de Transparência e Boas Práticas em Publicações Acadêmicas” recommended by Cope, Doaj, Oaspa and Wame. Adopting the guidelines helps editors to detect possible fraud and bad publishing practices.

By submitting articles to Revista Intercom, authors automatically declare that the content of the articles is original and unpublished. They also declare that the article has not been published, complete or incomplete, in another journal, even in another language, nor has it been submitted to another journal at the same time. Authors must submit the "Declaration of Submission" as a supplementary file (other) with the manuscript. They also undertake to inform the journal when they detect any errors or inaccuracies in their work (published, under evaluation or being edited) and to collaborate with the editors so that the article can be duly retracted or corrected. 

The editors and reviewers undertake to evaluate the work submitted to the journal objectively and for its intellectual content, without discrimination based on race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, geographical origin or political thought.

They also undertake to treat authors' collaborations confidentially while they are under evaluation and if the work is rejected.  Papers will only be evaluated or discussed with third parties with the permission of the journal's editors.

When the evaluators identify that the submitted work contains relevant content that has been published previously - by the author or by third parties, be it statements, arguments or reproductions of excerpts - they must inform the editors directly and the authors must ensure that such content is always accompanied by the respective bibliographic reference, indicating its origin.

Likewise, when there is substantial similarity or evidence that the article under evaluation has already been published in another journal, the evaluators should alert the editors that the article violates the journal's ethical principles.

Any deviations or other cases not provided for in this statement should be reported to the journal's editors-in-chief, who will take the appropriate steps to remedy the problem.

Cases of plagiarism or similarity will be dealt with in accordance with the guidelines recommended by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). For example, depending on the seriousness of the occurrence, in the event of suspected plagiarism or duplication, the authors will be contacted and the journal may request corrections or even reject the publication. If irregularities are detected after publication, the editors will take the appropriate steps to publish an errata or a retraction, as appropriate.

• Errata: Revista Intercom recognizes the importance of correcting errors that may arise after an article has been published. If a significant error is identified, authors should notify the journal immediately. An errata will be published as soon as possible to detail the corrections and ensure the accuracy and integrity of the scientific record.
• Plagiarism and Self-Plagiarism (Text Recycling): Revista Intercom strictly prohibits plagiarism and self-plagiarism. Self-plagiarism occurs when an author reuses significant parts of their own previously published work without proper citation. Manuscripts with text recycling will be rejected and may result in sanctions by the Editorial Board.
• Duplicate and Redundant Publication: Intercom only publishes original content. It is not permitted to submit a study to multiple journals simultaneously or to split the results of a study into several articles ("publication-salami"). Violations will result in the article being rejected or retracted, with possible sanctions by the Editorial Board.
• Fabrication and Falsification of Data: fraud such as image manipulation, fabrication or falsification of data will result in the immediate exclusion of the manuscript from the evaluation process and possible sanctions by the Editorial Board.
• Corrections and retractions: in cases of serious errors or discoveries of scientific misconduct, such as plagiarism or falsification of data, a retraction of the article may be necessary. The decision to retract an article is taken by the editors-in-chief after careful investigation and, where appropriate, consultation with external experts. The retraction will be clearly identified as such and will remain linked to the original article on the journal's website, maintaining the transparency and integrity of the academic record.

These policies are fundamental to maintaining the high ethical standards of scientific publication and guaranteeing confidence in the integrity of the content published by Revista Intercom.

Conflicts of interest can be of a personal, commercial, political, academic or financial nature. Conflicts of interest can occur when authors, reviewers or editors have interests that can influence the preparation or evaluation of manuscripts.

When submitting the manuscript, authors are responsible for recognizing and disclosing financial or other conflicts that may have influenced the work. 

If there is, even potentially, a conflict of interest, the author(s) must inform this in a signed document attached to the submission platform ("Declaration of Responsibility and Conflict of Interest"). In this case, Revista Intercom communicates and guides those involved as to the motivation behind editorial decisions.

The reviewers and editors involved in the evaluation must also declare whether they have any conflicts of interest in relation to the manuscript or its authors, such as: working or having worked at the same institution as the author(s); having a recent history of collaboration or publication with one of the author(s); having a personal relationship with the author(s), among others.

For more information see: Disclosure of Financial and Non-Financial Relationships and Activities, and Conflicts of Interest.

Revista Intercom believes it is necessary to combat plagiarism and, as part of its efforts to enhance academic integrity and prevent plagiarism in its publications, as of issue 47 (2024) it has adopted the CopySpider text similarity identification service.

The journal also uses tools to detect content generated by artificial intelligence (AI), such as ZeroGPT, among others.

The integrity check takes place at the beginning of the editorial evaluation process, before peer review. This ensures that issues of originality are identified and dealt with early on in the submission and evaluation flow.

Manuscripts that show a significant degree of similarity (greater than 30%) with other published works, indicating plagiarism, will be rejected. Revista Intercom considers plagiarism to be a serious breach of ethics in scientific publishing.

Authors are fully responsible for the content and information presented in their manuscripts.

Cases of plagiarism reported to the journal after the articles have been published will be analyzed by the editorial team and, if the complaint is confirmed, the article will be removed from the journal immediately. Penalties may also be imposed on the authors, within the limits of the competence of a scientific publication.

Revista Intercom understands that Artificial Intelligence resources do not meet the fundamental requirements for authorship of a scientific article. Therefore, Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) and Language Models (LLM) tools cannot be listed as authors in any academic paper published by the journal.

In order to guarantee the integrity and reliability of the results and conclusions presented in scientific manuscripts and to maintain public confidence in the advances presented, Revista Intercom seeks to observe the recommendations of the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) on ethical considerations related to the use of these technologies in scientific manuscripts:

• Transparency: Authors must report the use of artificial intelligence applications and/or assistive technologies in the methods section.
• Assignment: The NAME OF THE TOOL and/or SERVICE and the REASON for using the tool must be provided.
• Liability: If during the similarity analysis it is found that the author has used an artificial intelligence application and this has not been adequately reported, the manuscript will automatically be disregarded for publication.
• Limitations: authors should include the limitations and potential biases of using chatbots in the discussion of their manuscripts.

The following will be considered valid activities for the use of artificial intelligence

• Assistance with the language of the article. When AI is used to paraphrase or improve the author's original content, rather than suggesting new content, it becomes similar to tools such as Grammarly, spellcheckers, dictionaries and thesaurus. Texts translated by artificial intelligence will not be accepted.
• Literature search: Generative text models can be used as search assistants and to identify relevant literature. The usual requirements apply for the accuracy of citations and the thoroughness of literature reviews; care must be taken with possible biases in suggested citations. Authors are important in the selection and critical analysis of AI research.
• Uninnovative texts: Some authors may consider that describing widely known concepts is a waste of time and a task that can be automated. The manuscript should specify where such a text has been used and convince the reviewers that the generation has been verified as accurate and that it is accompanied by relevant and appropriate citations.
• Authors who use AI tools in the writing of a manuscript, in the production of images or graphic elements, or in the compilation and analysis of data, should make it explicit in the Materials and Methods section of the article with details of how the AI tool was used and which tool was used.
• Authors are responsible for the accuracy, completeness and originality of their research articles, including any use of AI.
• The use of AI must not violate Intercom Journal's plagiarism policy. Academic papers must be authored by the authors and must not present ideas, data, words or other material from third parties without proper citation and transparent referencing.

When submitting originals, authors must include a "Declaration of use of AI and/or Language Models" regarding the use of these tools in the writing process.

The editorial team of Revista Intercom, as well as the authors who publish in the journal, must always observe the guidelines on Sex and Gender Equity in Research (SAGER). Intercom also observes the gender equity policy in the formation of its editorial board.

The SAGER guidelines aim to promote the systematic reporting of sex and gender in research. To this end, they provide researchers and authors with a tool to standardize the reporting of sex and gender in scientific publications, where appropriate. They are also intended for reviewers and editors, as a tool for evaluating manuscripts and as a vehicle for raising awareness among authors and reviewers. We recognize that not all of the items included in the SAGER guidelines are applicable to every type of study. For this reason, SAGER encourages authors, editors and reviewers to consider whether sex and gender are relevant to the subject of the study and therefore to follow these guidelines where applicable.

When the article or research paper involves procedures with human beings, or sensitive data with the LGPD, the authors must attach, in the submission process via the online system, a statement of approval from the ethics committee of the institution responsible for approving the research.

Revista Intercom adopts a copyright policy that complies with the recommendations of the SciELO Criteria. These recommendations are essential to protect the interests of authors while promoting the open and ethical dissemination of scientific knowledge.

Authors who publish in Revista Intercom retain the copyright to their work. This means that although the article is published under the aegis of Intercom, the intellectual property of the work remains with the author. However, authors grant Revista Intercom the rights of first publication.

Licensing under Creative Commons

To facilitate the reuse and distribution of the work, the articles published in Revista Intercom are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution license (CC-BY). This license allows third parties to use and share published works, as long as they give appropriate credit to the original author and to the publication in Revista Intercom. This approach promotes the dissemination of scientific knowledge in an ethical and accessible manner, allowing papers to be widely distributed and reused without restriction.

Correct Citation of the Original Work

In accordance with the CC-BY license, any reuse or distribution of articles published in Revista Intercom must include the correct citation of the original work. This ensures that authors receive due recognition for their work and maintains the academic integrity of the publication process.

Intercom Journal's copyright policy reflects our commitment to promoting Open Science and respecting authors' rights and contributions. By publishing in Revista Intercom, authors gain visibility and recognition for their work, while contributing to the advancement of knowledge in the field of Communication.

Website responsibility
The copyright terms applied to the content published in Revista Intercom must be clearly stated and differentiated from the copyright terms applied to the website itself. This ensures transparency and a clear understanding of the rights and responsibilities related to the content of the journal and the website.

Author's responsibility
The use of generic names, trade names and trademarks, among others, in this publication does not imply that such names are free from copyright restrictions and applicable regulations.
It is the author's responsibility to secure the necessary permissions for the reuse of copyrighted materials included in their manuscript.
The opinions expressed by the authors of the articles are their sole responsibility.

License Adopted by the Periodical
All the content of the journal and the articles published by Revista Intercom, except where otherwise specified, are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution license (CC-BY).
Authors of articles published in Revista Intercom maintain the copyright of their work, licensing them under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license, which allows articles to be reused and distributed without restriction, provided that the original work is correctly cited.

Self-archiving by Authors
Revista Intercom encourages authors to self-archive their accepted manuscripts by publishing them on personal blogs, institutional repositories and academic social media. Authors can also post their work on their personal social media, as long as they include the full citation to the version published on the journal's website.

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• Marialva Carlos Barbosa (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil); marialva153@gmail.com; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8875-7128; http://lattes.cnpq.br/9819532476888552
• Sonia Virginia Moreira (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil); soniavm@gmail.com; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9583-4400;  http://lattes.cnpq.br/9376359238443176

• Ana Paula Goulart de Andrade (Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ), Seropédica, Rio de Janeiro/RJ, Brazil); goulartdeandrade@gmail.com;  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0414-1305; http://lattes.cnpq.br/5584033877464059
• Jorge Carlos Felz Ferreira (Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF), Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais/MG, Brazil); felz.ferreira@ufjf.br; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7223-1447; http://lattes.cnpq.br/9944566602504271

• Ada Cristina Machado Silveira (Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM), Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul/RS, Brazil); adac.machadosilveira@gmail.com;   https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7554-2248; http://lattes.cnpq.br/0962895520743039
• Alexandre Barbalho (Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC), Fortaleza, Ceará/CE, Brazil); alexandrealmeidabarbalho@gmail.com; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4612-6162;  http://lattes.cnpq.br/7017826279838774
• Ana Bertha Uribe Alvarado (Universidad de Colima (UCOL), Colima, México);  anauribe@ucol.mx; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1759-7299
• Ana Regina Barros Rêgo Leal (Universidade Federal do Piauí (UFPI), Teresina, Piauí/PI, Brazil); ana.rani@uol.com.br; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0915-8715;  http://lattes.cnpq.br/3007129823835577
• Antonio Carlos Hohlfeldt (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul/RS, Brazil); a_hohlfeldt@yahoo.com.br;  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5284-8730;  http://lattes.cnpq.br/3101630544687086
• António Carreto Fidalgo (Universidade da Beira Interior (UBI), Covilhã, Portugal);  fidalgo@ubi.pt;  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5384-9321;   http://lattes.cnpq.br/1822508350712327
• Antonio Castillo Esparcia (Universidad de Málaga (UMA), Málaga, Espanha);  acastilloe@uma.es;  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9751-8628
• Christa Liselote Berger Ramos Kuschick (Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (Unisinos), São Leopoldo, Rio Grande do Sul/RS, Brazil);  christab177@gmail.com;   https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2726-1134;   http://lattes.cnpq.br/8107590943446952
• Cicilia Maria Krohling Peruzzo (Universidade Federal do Esp. Santo (Ufes), Vitória, Espírito Santo/ES, Brazil);  kperuzzo@uol.com.br;  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6384-8848;  http://lattes.cnpq.br/9161998311900474
• Cleusa Maria Andrade Scroferneker (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil); cscrofer@gmail.com;  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1450-2100;  http://lattes.cnpq.br/4838297393852726
• Denis Porto Renó (Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), Bauru, São Paulo/SP, Brazil); denis.porto.reno@gmail.com;  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0837-4261;  http://lattes.cnpq.br/3280707979820725
• Edgard Rebouças (Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (Ufes), Vitória, Espírito Santo/ES, Brazil); edreboucas.br@gmail.com;  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1102-5396;  http://lattes.cnpq.br/2062758351699124
• Eduardo Barreto Vianna Meditsch (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), Florianópolis, Santa Catarina/SC, Brazil); emeditsch@gmail.com;    https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6045-1178;  http://lattes.cnpq.br/9884506958589514  
• Fernando Oliveira Paulino (Universidade de Brasília (UnB), Brasília, Distrito Federal/DF, Brazil); fopaulino@gmail.com;  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4946-0513;  http://lattes.cnpq.br/2907708501435465
• Filipa Gonçalves Subtil (Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa (IPL), Lisboa, Portugal); fsubtil@escs.ipl.pt; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2556-2192
• Francisco Rui Cádima (Universidade Nova de Lisboa (UNL), Lisboa, Portugal); frcadima@fcsh.unl.pt; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5449-8831
• Gabriel Kaplún (Universidad de La República, Montevideo, Uruguai); gabriel.kaplun@fic.edu.uy; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4017-5142
• Giovandro Marcus Ferreira (Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA), Salvador, Bahia/BA, Brazil);  giovandro.ferreira@gmail.com; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1289-6089;  http://lattes.cnpq.br/4143857573220326
• Gustavo Ramón Cimadevilla (Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto, Río Cuarto, Córdoba, Argentina); gcimadevilla@yahoo.com.ar; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3333-4456
• Iluska Maria da Silva Coutinho (Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF), Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais/MG, Brazil); iluska.coutinho@ufjf.br;  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5597-9453; http://lattes.cnpq.br/7068648540073233  
• Isabel Regina Augusto (Universidade Federal do Amapá (UNIFAP), Macapá, Amapá/AP, Brazil); isabelaugusto2005@yahoo.com.br; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7220-0269;  http://lattes.cnpq.br/5281893988803583
• Ivânia dos Santos Neves (Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA), Belém, Pará/PA, Brazil);  ivanian@uol.com.br; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6738-5254;  http://lattes.cnpq.br/2648132192179863
• Jorge Alejandro González Sánchez (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cidade do México, México); jorge@labcomplex.net; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7844-9260
• José Benjamim Picado Sousa e Silva (Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), Niterói, Rio de Janeiro/RJ, Brazil); jbpicado@hotmail.com; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8982-9231; http://lattes.cnpq.br/9591194886381671
• José Carlos Lozano Rendón (Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Nuevo León, México); jose.lozano@tamiu.edu; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6290-2312
• José Luiz Aidar Prado (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUCSP), São Paulo/SP, Brazil); aidarprado@gmail.com; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9540-7115;  http://lattes.cnpq.br/8833752667337994
• Josenildo Guerra (Universidade Federal de Sergipe (UFS), São Cristóvão, Sergipe/SE, Brazil); guerra.ufs@gmail.com; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5242-863X
• Joseph Straubhaar (University of Texas at Austin, Texas/TX, Estados Unidos);
  jdstraubhaar@austin.utexas.edu;  http://lattes.cnpq.br/7965034558155902
• Juciano de Sousa Lacerda (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Natal, Rio Grande do Norte/RN, Brazil); juciano.lacerda@gmail.com; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0876-377X; http://lattes.cnpq.br/9310055597414010;
• Juremir Machado da Silva (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul/RS, Brazil); juremir@pucrs.br;    https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8105-5596;  http://lattes.cnpq.br/2393503669129057
• Laura Loguercio Cánepa (Universidade Paulista (Unip), São Paulo/SP, Brazil);  laura_canepa@yahoo.com.br; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3248-599X;    http://lattes.cnpq.br/8887782644586702
• Lucia Santaella (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUCSP), São Paulo/SP, Brazil);  lbraga@uni-kassel.de; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0681-6073;  http://lattes.cnpq.br/8886485096957731
• Luciana Miranda Costa (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Natal, Rio Grande do Norte/RN, Brazil); lmirandaeua@hotmail.com; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3843-4499;  http://lattes.cnpq.br/1310961057480638
• Luisa Medeiros Massarani (Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ), Rio de Janeiro/RJ, Brazil) luisa.massarani7@gmail.com; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5710-7242;  http://lattes.cnpq.br/2675160937325484
• Marcelo Guardia Crespo (Universidad Católica Boliviana San Pablo, Cochabamba, Bolívia); guardia@ucbcba.edu.bo; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3799-4788;
• Marcial Murciano Martínez (Universitat Autônoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Espanha); marcial.murciano@uab.cat; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4227-7775  
• Márcio Simeone Henriques (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais/MG, Brazil); simeone@ufmg.br; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0807-6221; http://lattes.cnpq.br/6040055935701119;
• Marco Thomas Bosshard (Europa-Universität Flensburg, Alemanha)  marco.bosshard@uni-flensburg.de; https://orcid.org/0009-0007-7989-2644
• Marcos Antonio Nicolau (Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB), João Pessoa, Paraíba/PB, Brazil); marcosnicolau.ufpb@gmail.com;  http://lattes.cnpq.br/5260274722922345
• Margarida M. Krohling Kunsch (Universidade de São Paulo USP), São Paulo/SP, Brazil);   mkkunsch@uol.com.br; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7125-0053;   http://lattes.cnpq.br/4213808458053599;
• Margarita Ledo Aldión (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (USC), Santiago de Compostela, Galícia, Espanha); margarita.ledo@usc.es; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2001-1498
• Maria Cristina Gobbi (Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), Bauru, São Paulo/SP, Brazil); mcgobbi@terra.com.br; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5629-5010;  http://lattes.cnpq.br/2302756561160804
• Maria Immacolata V. de Lopes (Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo/SP, Brazil); immaco@usp.br; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3477-1068;  http://lattes.cnpq.br/7326620682313478  
• Marialva Carlos Barbosa (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro/RJ, Brazil); marialva153@gmail.com; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8875-7128;  http://lattes.cnpq.br/9819532476888552
• Marianne Kogut Eliasquevici (Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA), Belém, Pará/PA, Brazil); mariufpa@gmail.com; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9450-3965;  http://lattes.cnpq.br/6655468164115415
• Micael Herschmann (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro/RJ, Brazil); micaelmh@globo.com; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8859-0671;  http://lattes.cnpq.br/8285658527971096
• Milly Bounanno (Università di Roma La Sapienza, Roma, Itália); milly@mclink.it;  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0430-8155
• Moisés Lemos Martins (Universidade do Minho (Uminho), Braga, Portugal);  moisesm@ics.uminho.pt;  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3072-2904;
• Monica Martinez (Universidade de Sorocaba (UNISO), Sorocaba, São Paulo/SP, Brazil);   martinez.monica@uol.com.br; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1518-8379;  http://lattes.cnpq.br/7582266062809991
• Muniz Sodré de Araújo Cabral (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro/RJ, Brazil); sodremuniz@hotmail.com; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6060-9673; http://lattes.cnpq.br/5048383145015647
• Murilo César Ramos (Universidade de Brasília (UnB), Brasília, Distrito Federal/DF, Brazil); murilo.c.o.ramos@gmail.com; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3141-8130;  http://lattes.cnpq.br/6499809070992343
• Nara Lya Cabral Scabin (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais (PUCMG), Belo Horizonte, Minas gerais/MG, Brazil); naralyacabral@yahoo.com.br;   https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7121-1142; http://lattes.cnpq.br/8600661274396116
• Netília Silva dos Anjos Seixas (Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA), Belém, Pará/PA, Brazil);  netiliaseixas@gmail.com; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9879-9193;  http://lattes.cnpq.br/2301685130625189
• Nilda Jacks (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul/RS, Brazil); njacks@terra.com.br; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1625-2619
• Patrick Murphy (Temple University, Philadelphia, Pensilvânia/PA, Estados Unidos);  murphy.p@temple.edu; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3077-8756;
• Raquel Recuero (Universidade Federal de Pelotas (UFPel), Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul/RS, Brazil); raquel@raquelrecuero.com; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7417-9782;  http://lattes.cnpq.br/7230106202961229
• Raúl Fuentes Navarro (Universidad Jesuita de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, México);  raul@iteso.mx; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6494-8122
• Roseli Aparecida Figaro Paulino (Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo/SP, Brazil); figaro@uol.com.br; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9710-904X;  http://lattes.cnpq.br/8523048386991279
• Sergio Mattos (Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia (UFRB), Cachoeira, Bahia/BA, Brazil); sasmattos@gmail.com;  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9703-4439;  http://lattes.cnpq.br/8348605651249261
• Silvio Waisbord (George Washington University, Washington D.C., Estados Unidos); waisbord@gwu.edu; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0026-7111
• Simone Antoniaci Tuzzo (Universidade da Maia, Maia, Portugal); simonetuzzo@ufg.br;    https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9401-6510;  http://lattes.cnpq.br/9376233659808755
• Simone Pereira de Sá (Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), Niterói, Rio de Janeiro/RJ, Brazil); sibonei.sa@gmail.com;  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0557-6514;  http://lattes.cnpq.br/6382966782640472
• Sonia Virginia Moreira (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Rio de Janeiro /RJ, Brazil); soniavm@gmail.com; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9583-4400;  http://lattes.cnpq.br/9376359238443176
• Thomas Tufte (Loughborough University London, Londres, Reino Unido);  t.tufte@lboro.ac.uk; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3253-8481;
• Vângela Maria Isidoro de Morais (Universidade Federal de Roraima (UFRR), Boa Vista, Roraima/RR, Brazil); vangela.morais@ufrr.br; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8952-7834;  http://lattes.cnpq.br/3445758357722488
• Vicki Mayer (Tulane University, New Orleans, Luisiana/LA Estados Unidos);  vmayer@tulane.edu; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7812-3591 
• Victor Manuel Mari Saez (Universidad de Cádiz, Jerez de la Frontera, Cádiz, Espanha);  victor.mari@uca.es; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4939-3776 

INTERCOM – Revista Brazileira de Ciências da Comunicação focuses on Social Communication and its eriódicosinar interfaces.
 
Submissions that do not strictly follow the instructions to the authors will be rejected in the initial screening and will not proceed to evaluation.

Revista Intercom publishes articles resulting from research, critical book reviews and interviews that make a scientific contribution to the field. Texts are received for the Articles, Arena, Interviews, Reviews and Preprints sections and must strictly observe the rules described below.

• Articles: a fixed section for analytical or review texts resulting from original theoretical or field research on topics in the field of Social Communication. They should contain a presentation and analysis of the results and ver introduction explaining the research strategy and methodology used. Priority will be given to texts that are actually the eriódico research and that show scientific eriódico and/or methodological and conceptual invention.
• Arena: a flexible section for publishing texts on controversial and/or emerging topics, reports on experiences and eriódicos research notes. The texts can be more formally reflective).
• Interview: A fixed section for testimonials from researchers with a recognized academic career who have made a significant contribution to the advancement of research in the field of Communication and/or related erió.
• Reviews: a fixed section, containing the registration and eriódicos of recently published books.

With eriód to preprints, it is eriódicos to point out that Revista Intercom does not consider that the publication of articles in preprint repositories detracts from the originality of the article submitted. Revista Intercom is attentive to updates to the principles of Open Science and, in this sense, foresees that articles published in preprint repositories can be submitted to the eriód, without eriódicos to their originality.

Unprecedented

Collaborations must be the eriódico original and unpublished research. Authors are asked to submit eri manuscripts that have not been simultaneously submitted for publication in another eriód.  Texts previously published in proceedings of events, journals, books or repositories, regardless of language, will be automatically rejected during the initial evaluation stage.

Language

Revista Intercom publishes all its articles in a bilingual version: in the original language (Portuguese or Spanish) and the English version. Optionally, approved articles may also be published in all three languages. The costs of translation into any language will be the responsibility of the authors, and the eriód will review them.

Articles in erió languages can be submitted for evaluation and, if approved, will be published with a translation into Portuguese or Spanish, which eriódi the responsibility of the authors.

Authorship refers to credit for the work published and implies responsibility for it. Revista Intercom uses the CREDiT taxonomy structure. All authors must describe their participation in the preparation of the manuscript using the “CREDiT Form” available in the Conditions of Submission. Revista Intercom recommends that authorship be based on the four criteria described below:

• substantial contributions to the conception or design of the research, the acquisition, analysis and/or interpretation of the data presented in the work;
• drafting eriódicos versions of the manuscript or critically reviewing the eriódicos eriódic of the article;
• final approval of the version to be published;
• eriódic to be responsible for all aspects of the work, in order to guarantee the accuracy and integrity of the article.

All those listed as authors must meet the four criteria for authorship, and all those who meet the four criteria must be identified as authors. Individuals who do not meet the four criteria mentioned may have their collaboration acknowledged by means of a note of thanks at the eriód the work. Authors are responsible for obtaining permission from these individuals before naming them in their acknowledgments.

Submission of the article through the journal’s system implies tacit and public confirmation that all the authors listed on the title page have participated in the preparation of the manuscript.

Revista Intercom eri receives articles in which: (a) at least one of the authors has completed a doctorate; (b) a doctoral student can be the first author, as long as the advisor also signs the article; (c) master’s students can be indicated as the second author in articles signed by a doctor.

Articles will not be accepted from master’s students, specialists, graduates or undergraduates.

Authors who have already published in the eriód must wait 15 months before having a new article published. The editors recommend that authors submit eri one article for evaluation, taking into account the time between publications described above.

The maximum number of authors and co-authors per submitted manuscript should be four. 

Revista Intercom receives online submissions through the Intercom/Portcom website, which uses the Electronic Journal Publishing System – SEER (Open Journal Systems – OJS).  Manuscripts and/or supplementary documents sent by e-mail will not be considered.

We ask authors to carefully read all the requirements of the submission process below.

Authors must have their text checked for spelling and eriód before submitting it to the eriód. Submissions must also include the following files, as detailed later:

• Title page;
• Original manuscript (use the template for drafting and formatting);
• Open Science compliance form;
• CREDit form;
• Declaration of conflict of interest;
• Statement of Responsibility for Content;
• Statement on the use of AI and language models.

Original articles, including abstracts, notes and bibliographical references, should be no longer than 40,000 characters with eriód.

Critical reviews must not exceed 15,000 characters with eriód and must contain the full reference of the book, as well as the title and identification of the author of the book reviewed at the eriód the text (full name and institutional affiliation).

Interviews should be between 20,000 and 30,000 characters long with eriód and contain the interviewee’s full reference at the eriód the text (full name and institutional affiliation). A high-resolution photograph of the interviewee in .tiff, .jpg or .png format should also be sent.

With the exception of the title page and erió complementary documents, the pages containing the manuscript itself must be sent without any information that could identify the authors. Data such as: name, e-mail address and affiliation; information in any eriódi the text indicating links to research groups; title of academic work presented/defended (paper, dissertation, thesis) eriódic of departments and/or supervisors to which the authors are linked; among others, should be excluded.

When necessary, authors can indicate in the text, in place of the deleted passages, the following words: “Excerpt removed to preserve the blind review”. If the article is approved, the author will have the opportunity to include the information again in the version that will be published.

When submitting manuscripts, authors should make sure:

• the originality and uniqueness of the submission, i.e. the work must not have been previously published and/or submitted simultaneously to another eriód.
• that the submitted file is in text format (.doc; .docx or .odt) without identifying the authors, and that it has been prepared according to the submission template for the structure of the submitted text.
• that the registration for the presentation of the ORCID iD was carried out.
• that the “CRediT form” was filled in and included as ver “erió document” in the system.
• that the “Declaration of Conflict of Interest” was made, and included as ver “erió document” in the system.
• that the “Title Page” has been duly completed and attached to the system.

Authors should also check that the abbreviated citations in the body of the text and in footnotes (author, year of publication and, erió appropriate, page) are complete in the references at the eriód the text, according to ABNT standards. All references in electronic format (journals, e-books, digital theses and dissertations) must correctly indicate the full URL at the eriód the reference. Very long URLs should be shortened by: https://bitly.com/.

As a submission policy, Revista Intercom establishes that authors must send their manuscripts in separate files, as described below:

A) Title page

The manuscript must be accompanied by a “title page” containing the following information:

• Title of the manuscript in Portuguese, English and Spanish;
• Section of the eriód to which the manuscript is addressed;
• Mention the receipt of funding and the respective funding institutions, if applicable;
• Authors’ names: the full names of the authors, as well as their responsibilities. The affiliation of each author must include the following information: university, department, city, zip code, country, e-mail address and ORCID (all authors must have ver ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) registration). A corresponding author must be indicated.
• Information on the eriódicos the manuscript on a preprint server, if applicable.
• Statement that the research has been approved by ver institutional ethics committee eri necessary.

When submitting the manuscript via the system, authors must also correctly inform the requested metadata on the online submission form.

If the manuscript is approved, the information on the title page will be incorporated into the manuscript, according to the template used by the eriód.

B) Original manuscripts
Structure
The manuscript should be structured as follows: Title in Portuguese, Resumo, Palavras-chave; Title in English, Abstract, Key-words; Title in Spanish, Resumen, Palabras-clave; introduction, theoretical framework, method, results and conclusion. References; authors’ mini-curriculum; acknowledgments; financial or technical support; declaration of conflict of interest.

Use the “Template defined by Revista Intercom”. The document is formatted and complies with the latest standardization requirements.

Configuring texts
Originals should be submitted in .DOC or .DOCX (Word for Windows), .ODT (Open Office) or .RTF format, with the following formatting:

• Sheet format: A4 size;
• 2.5 cm margins;
• Title: Times New Roman 16 font, left aligned, bold, with a maximum of 90 characters with eriód, representing the eriódic of the article. The title should be presented in Portuguese, English and Spanish.
• Internal headings and subheadings: Times New Roman 14 font, respectively, in bold eriód the left.
• Abstract and eriódic: except for reviews and interviews, texts must include ver abstract of up to 1,000 characters (with eriód), and a maximum of five eriódic that make it possible to identify the eriódic of the article, separated by semicolons. Use Times New Roman 11 font, without indentation, single-spaced. Abstract and eriódic should also be presented in English and Spanish.
• Body: Use Times New Roman font, 12-point font for the body of the text, 1.0 line spacing (single space) and 1.25 indentation on the first line. For tables and references, use 11-point font. For direct quotations of more than 3 lines and footnotes, use 10-point font. The text must be justified. All titles, section headings and references must be aligned to the left.

It is essential to use the template, which has all the appropriate formatting for submission.

Section headings: Section/subdivision headings should be brief and clear.

Acronyms and abbreviations: Acronyms and abbreviations must be enclosed in brackets and preceded by their full meaning eri first used in the text.

Foreign words: Foreign words should be written in italics. For emphasis or highlighting use bold, ‘single quotation marks’ or ‘double quotation marks’.

Abbreviated citations in the body of the text and in footnotes (author, year of publication and, erió appropriate, page) must be completed in the references at the eriód the text. Links to electronic eriódic must be active.

Footnotes are optional and explanatory. They should eri be used as ver exception, eri strictly necessary for the understanding of the text and with a maximum of five lines. Footnotes will be numbered consecutively in Arabic in the order in which they appear in the text.

Once accepted for publication, authors will be asked to send the article translated into English.

C) Supplementary documents

The documents below are available for download:

Title page;
Original manuscript (use the template for drafting and formatting);
Open Science compliance form;
CREDit form;
Declaration of conflict of interest;
Statement of Responsibility for Content;
Statement on the use of AI and language models.

Use of illustrations, tables and graphs

The purpose of illustrations, charts, tables and graphs is to eriódic the results in a succinct and detailed way, to allow visual analysis or to help explain ideas, making it possible to express more clearly what would be difficult to write and tiresome to read.

Images, illustrations, tables and graphs must be numbered in Arabic numerals, in the sequence in which they appear in the text, preceded by the word Table/Figure.

Images, tables, illustrations and graphs should be inserted into the text as close as possible to the passage to which they refer. Avoid using expressions such as “the image above” or “the figure shown below”. Always refer to the numbering of the item (figure 1 or graph 2, for example) as the figure will not eriód be exactly below or above the reference section in the editing process.

Tables
Tables and charts should be inserted in the text itself, following the standards defined by the IBGE – Instituto Brazileiro de Geografia e Estatística, as established by ABNT. They must be written in Times News Roman font, body 10, regular, single-spaced.  Tables added as images will not be accepted. Avoid long tables that take up more than one page.

Figures
Figures are all forms of illustration erió than tables and charts. Figures include drawings, erió, diagrams, engravings and maps.
The use of figures is eriódicos because they eriódicos the scientific text, which is often not easily understood, and help the reader to understand it better.

For illustrations and images to really enrich the scientific text, they need to be of good quality and also sent correctly for publication.

When preparing visualizations (graphs, figures, maps, etc.), we recommend following good visualization accessibility practices. We suggest eriódi the following text: “Accessibility in scientific visualizations”, and that authors try to adapt their visualizations (except for interactivity, since articles are also published in PDF).

After each visualization and its source, ver alternative text (Alt text) should be added with a brief description of the image. This is eriódicos for accessing the eriódic using screen readers. We suggest eriódi the following text: “Image Alt Text: How to Make Your Scientific Publication More Accessible”.
In addition to being inserted in the text, illustrations and images must be sent separately as complementary files via the journal’s submission system. Each image must be a maximum of 15 cm wide by 20 cm high eriód least 10 cm wide by 8 cm high.           
Text inserted in the image must be written in sans serif fonts, 8 to 12 point body to allow visualization. The image resolution must be at least 300 DPI. Image files are accepted in one of the following formats: jpeg, tiff, gif, eps or bmp.

Graphics
We recommend using the most synthetic format possible. When using color in graphics, evaluate how the colors used will look if printed in grayscale. Avoid using 3D graphics as they can be difficult for screen readers to use. For axis titles, legends and erió short texts used in graphics, use Times New Roman, body 8 to 12.

Do not include authors’ names, article title or figure number/title/legend in the figure files. This information will be included in the caption of your figure in the manuscript.

In addition to being inserted in the text, graphics must be sent separately as complementary files via the journal’s submission system, in one of the following formats: jpeg, tiff, gif, eps or bmp.

Revista Intercom is obliged to use the following normative instructions from the Brazilian Association of Technical Standards (ABNT):

• References – Elaboration (NBR-6023/2018);
• Quotations in documents – Presentation (NBR 10520/2002);
• Progressive numbering of the sections of a written document (NBR-6024/2003);
• Abstract – Presentation (NBR 6028/2003).

General recommendations
We encourage authors to explore and integrate into their submissions articles already published in Revista Intercom whenever relevant. This not eri enriches the discussion, but also strengthens connections within the academic eriódico in the field.

We encourage the use of the Digital Object Identifier (DOI), as it guarantees a eriódicos access link to the electronic article.

For articles or texts published on the internet that do not contain a DOI, please indicate the full URL address and the date they were accessed.

References and citations
References should be cited in alphabetical order, without numbering, single-spaced with 6pt before and 0pt after paragraphs. If there is more than one work by the same author, cite in chronological order of publication; if there is more than one work by the same author published in the same year, differentiate them by a, b and c. References should eri include the works actually used to prepare the article.

Examples:

1)Books:
AUTHOR’S SURNAME, Author’s name. Title of the book (in bold, eri the first letter capitalized): subtitle (without bold). Edition. Place: Publisher, date. V. (Series or Collection).
Example:
HAGEMEYER, R. R. História & Audiovisual. 1. Ed. Belo Horizonte: Autêntica Editora, 2013. 152 p.
Citation in the text: HAGEMEYER (2013) erió the eriód the eriódic (HAGEMEYER, 2013).

2) Book chapters:
AUTHOR’S SURNAME, Author’s name. Title of the chapter without emphasis. In: followed by the references of the book: AUTHOR’S LAST NAME, Author’s name. Title of the book (in bold, eri the first letter capitalized): subtitle (in bold). Edition. Place: eriódico, date, page numbers (pages consulted) or volume (Series or Collection).
Example:
RIBEIRO, C. M. Digital library. In: SANTOS, G. C. Acronyms, acronyms and technical terms: archives, librarianship, documentation, information technology. 2. Ed. Ver. And ampl. Campinas, SP: Átomo, 2012. 289 p. (Dictionaries Series).
Citation in the text: Ribeiro (2012) erió the eriód the eriódic (RIBEIRO, 2012).

3) Works published in proceedings of events or similar:
AUTHOR’S SURNAME, Author’s name. Title: subtitle. In: NAME OF EVENT (in capital letters), number, year, place of organization. Title of publication followed by ellipsis in brackets (in bold).  Place of publication (city): Publisher, date, initial and final pages of the work.
Example:
SANTOS, G. C. Biblioteca escolar digital (BedNet). In: SEMINÁRIO DE GESTÃO DO CONHECIMENTO EM EDUCAÇÃO E TECNOLOGIA DA INFORMAÇÃO, 3., 2004, Campinas, SP. Anais [...]. Campinas, SP: UNICAMP/FE, 2004. P.25-35. 
Citation in the text: Santos (2004) erió the eriód the eriódic (SANTOS, 2002).

4) Parts of periodicals

4.1) Journal articles:
AUTHOR’S SURNAME, Author’s name. Title of the article (without emphasis). Name of the eriód (in bold), city, volume and number of the eriód, pages, date of publication.
Example:
AMORIM, A. L. T.; ARAÚJO, M. J. C. G. Como o isolamento social causado pela pandemia de covid-19 impactou o consumo de podcasts no Brazil: uma análise de matérias jornalísticas nacionais. Brazilian Journal of Development, Curitiba, v. 7, n. 3, p. 25802-25815, mar. 2021.
Citation in the text: Amorim and Araújo (2021) erió the eriód the quote (AMORIM; ARAÚJO, 2021).

4.2) Newspaper articles:
AUTHOR’S SURNAME, Author’s name. Title of article. Title of the newspaper. Number or title of the section or supplement, place, first and last pages, day, month, year.
Example:
BRITO, A. As relíquias dos sebos de Campinas: pontos de venda de livros usados sobrevivem ao domínio das megastores e oferecem um acervo que faz inveja às bibliotecas. Gazeta Mercantil, São Paulo, 6 ago.1999.
Citation in the text: Brito (1999) erió the eriód the eriódic (BRITO, 1999).

5) Monographs, dissertations and theses:
AUTHOR’S SURNAME, Author’s name. Title (in bold): subtitle. Year, number of pages or volumes (Category and eri of concentration) – Name of Faculty, Name of University, city.
Example:
MENDONÇA, M. C. A maternidade na publicidade: uma análise qualitativa e semiótica em São Paulo e Toronto. 2014. Tese (Doutorado) – Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Comunicação e Semiótica, São Paulo, SP.
Citation in the text: Mendonça (2014) erió the eriód the eriódic (MENDONÇA, 2014).

6) Online publications:
SOUZA, K. P. University library: risk analysis. RDBCI: Digital Journal of Library and Information Science, Campinas, SP, v. 17, p. e019037, 2019. DOI 10.20396/rdbci.v17i0.8653319. Available at: https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/rdbci/article/view/8653319. Accessed on: 11 Nov. 2022.
Citation in the text:  Souza (2019) or at the end of the citation (SOUZA, 2019).

RDBCI: DIGITAL JOURNAL OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE. Campinas: State University of Campinas, 2003- . ISSN 1678-765X. Annual. Available at: https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/rdbci. Access on: 06 jan. 2021.
Citation in the text:  RDBCI... (2003) or at the end of the citation (RDBCI..., 2003).

PASSOS, R. The presence of information competence in the National Book and Reading Plan: as pects on reading mediation and mediator training. 2015. Thesis (doctoral) - State University of Campinas, Faculty of Education, Campinas, SP. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12733/1627403. Accessed on: 11 Nov. 2022.
Citation in the text:  Passos (2015) or at the end of the citation (PASSOS, 2015).

For other examples, we recommend consulting the ABNT-NBR-6023/2018 standards. For users of electronic reference indexing systems (Mendeley, EndNote, Zotero or other), adopt the ABNT - Brazilian Association of Technical Standards style as the standard for normalizing references.

To submit a manuscript, authors must use the Revista Intercom online submission system provided by Open Journal Systems (OJS) and available at https://revistas.intercom.org.br/index.php/revistaintercom/submission/wizard.

The submission must include the following items, available for download:

• Title page;
• Original manuscript (use the template for drafting and formatting);
• Open Science compliance form;
• CREDit form;
• Declaration of conflict of interest;
• Statement of Responsibility for Content;
• Statement on the use of AI and language models.

Each document must be attached separately in the designated field within the system. Before starting the process, the person responsible for the submission must first register in the system as an author and create/associate their ORCID record. All authors must have an up-to-date ORCID record

Once the manuscript has been accepted, the authors must attach:

• Authors' declaration duly signed by all.
• Separate files - in high resolution - of images, illustrations and graphics.

Important! The revised and translated files must also be attached via the Revista Intercom publication system.

It is essential that authors provide detailed information on the sources of support for their work when submitting their manuscripts to Revista Intercom. This includes:

• Identification of Sponsors: list all the sponsors of the work, including institutions, organizations or individuals who have provided financial or other support.
• Contract Details: if applicable, please provide the contract number or any other specific reference related to the financial support.
• Role of Supporting Sources: clearly describe the role played by each supporting source in the development of the work. This may include, but is not limited to, contributions in the design of the study, collection, analysis and interpretation of data, writing of the manuscript or the decision to submit the article for publication.

This information is fundamental to guaranteeing the transparency and integrity of the scientific process, allowing readers to assess the potential impact of funding sources on the work. Information on sources of support should be included in the appropriate section of the manuscript, in accordance with the Intercom Journal guidelines.

If the manuscript is approved by the Editorial Team and the referees, the corresponding author will be notified of the approval and will have 30 days to send the revised Portuguese version and the English version of the text.

In the case of an English version, once the submitted article has been approved, Revista Intercom will check the manuscript using the free AJE's (American Journal Expert - Part of Springer Nature) Grammar Check Tool, which provides a reliable assessment of the quality of the translation and guarantees that the manuscript communicates clearly and accurately. Only manuscripts in which the tool indicates that your Language Assessment Score (LAT) is equal to or above the 75th percentile will be accepted.

After the editorial team has checked the version revised by the authors, they will receive a proof of the manuscript in a text file (.doc or .docx), which includes observations and changes made by the team. The author will have four days to review the proof. If there are still issues related to the proof, the editorial team will contact the author to resolve them, until a final version of the text is reached.

Once the manuscript has been accepted, the corresponding authors will receive the finalized version of the article in PDF format for approval. To open these files, it is necessary to have Acrobat Reader installed (available for free download at http://get.adobe.com/reader/). Corrections requested at this stage of the process should be limited to typographical errors and should not involve changes to the content of the study or the list of authors. Authors must return the approved version by e-mail within 48 hours of receiving the message. Once the PDF production process has been completed, the article will be sent for publication.

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