On Wilhelm Reich’s birthday: what to celebrate?

Abstract More than one hundred and twenty years have passed since the birth of Wilhelm Reich in 1897 and more than sixty years have passed since his death in 1957, but his ideas remais alive and desserves to be disseminated. In this, Information and Communication Technologies, so common nowadays, have a determining role. In this sense, this text aimed to identify, based on the vídeos available on Youtube, those capable of contributing to the dissemination of this author, still so unknown in Brazil. Through exploratory research on the Youtube website, we make sure that at least 10 of the collected vídeos contribute for an initial idea of who this author was. By organizing an initial database, disseminating it through this research, we hope to contribute to the dissemination of the ideas of this author who has a lot to contribute to the discussion of contemporary themes in the most differents areas of knowledge.摘要：自威廉·赖希（Wilhelm Reich）1897年诞辰至今已逾一百二十载，其1957年逝世亦已六十余载，但他的思想依旧熠熠生辉，值得广泛传播。如今，信息与通信技术已高度普及，在此方面发挥着决定性作用。有鉴于此，本研究旨在依托YouTube平台上的现有视频，甄别出能够助力传播这位至今在巴西仍鲜为人知的学者思想的相关内容。通过对YouTube网站开展探索性研究，我们确认所收集的视频中至少有10部能够帮助受众初步认识这位学者。我们期望通过构建初始数据库并依托本研究进行传播，为推广这位学者的思想贡献力量——其思想可为各知识领域的当代议题讨论提供诸多有益参考。