Infodemic and the impacts of bellicose rhetoric on COVID-19 political discourses
Infodemic; desinfodemic; Covid-19; walike rhetoric.
The dynamics of the Covid-19 pandemic, originally a health crisis considered the biggest of the 21st century, shed light on a series of social problems, before and after the lead of the new coronavirus, Sars-CoV-2, for every challenge the world. For some authors, the exponential advance of the disease had as a background the protective people, mainly, of the neoliberal economy, traversed by social inequalities. It also provoked imminent fear in the world's population, around the unknown and the absence of effective measures to combat the virus. The rise of the infodemic phenomenon, a category known as the information epidemic, has contributed to this, characterized by the exacerbated flow of information – true, false, incomplete or taken out of context –, with severe effects on the social fabric. From this panorama, this dissertation proposal presents an attempt to study, of an exploratory nature, about the effects of the dissemination of disinformation, as part of desinfodemic, and warlike rhetoric produced in the speeches of former president Jair Messias Bolsonaro, in collective interviews and nationally televised pronouncements.