Data supporting research on journalistic production on science by press offices of universities and university centers in Rio Grande do Sul (2016)

These data are part of a final paper called Scientific Journalism in Community Higher Education Institutions in Rio Grande do Sul. The work was developed at the University of Vale do Taquari - Univates, between 2016 and 2017. The data is in Portuguese. The abstract of the paper is available below. Science occupies an important place in today's society. It is what has allowed us to reach our current stages of intellectual development and also to achieve memorable feats as a species. Science is produced, to a large extent, in the academic environment. This monograph focuses its efforts on trying to understand how 15 universities and university centers in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, partners in the Consortium of Community Universities of Rio Grande do Sul (Comung), carry out the dissemination of their academic production. It is understood that it is important to disseminate scientific information to the population so that individuals can critically evaluate the actions developed in the field of science. The general objective of this study is to investigate the production of scientific news in higher education institutions linked to Comung, as well as to characterize the relationships between the actors and processes related to the journalistic dissemination of science produced in these same institutions. The qualitative and quantitative analysis of the scientific dissemination texts was directed to the news published by the organizations, through an exploratory study that mapped all the production of the press offices between January and August 2016. Subsequently, a qualitative analysis of the discourse of press officers was carried out, after applying a questionnaire. Throughout the investigation, the hypothesis that the institutions disseminate their scientific production was confirmed, but they do so in markedly different ways. The study is available at this link: https://www.univates.br/bdu/items/4cdf0835-1fbe-425a-a216-2a511e9aabf8.