Lei do aborto em Portugal: barreiras atuais e desafios futuros

A despenalização do aborto previu eliminar os abortos clandestinos, embora ainda existam barreiras ao aborto seguro que afetam mais as mulheres desfavorecidas: objeção de consciência, prazos demasiado curtos para o procedimento, períodos de reflexão obrigatórios ou a estigmatização. Foi investigada a relação entre a formulação legislativa e a sua implementação, sendo que eventuais discrepâncias atestam a falência parcial dos seus objetivos. Foram analisados os dados quantitativos da DGS e qualitativos provenientes de entrevistas e focus group com especialistas e profissionais de saúde. As evidências produziram orientações para debates futuros.

The role of journalism in combating fake news: the case of the last day of the 2019 election campaign in Portugal

This article reflects on the role of journalism in the deconstruction of fake news propaganda that came out in the media on the last day of the 2019 parliamentary election campaign in Portugal. We collected news items carried by the Portuguese media and contextualised this media coverage with regard to the impact of disinformation on confidence in the news with the help of data collated as part of the Digital News Report project. We found that journalistic scrutiny, aided by the characteristics of the Portuguese media system, might have contributed to a zero effect of this fake news on the election results, unlike what happened in elections in other countries, such as the United States, United Kingdom and Brazil.

Sociological game theory: agency, social structures and interaction processes

This article presents two sociological theories, alternatives to classical game theory. These social science-based game theories discussed here present reformulations of classical game theory in applied mathematics (CGT). These theories offer an important advance to classical game theory, thanks to the application of central concepts in sociology and social psychology, as well as the results of empirical analyses of individual and collective behaviour. These two theories emerging in the social sciences are, the first, based on systems theory, is social science game theory (SGT); the other is Erwing Goffman’s interactionist theory (IGT) based on social psychology. Each of these theories, both focused on the analysis of social games, are presented and contrasted with classical game theory, highlighting the centrality of social rules in structuring and regulating human behaviour, and the need to include them in any analysis.