Political and Party Discussions on Facebook: The Limit between Freedom of Expression and Intolerance

• Autor(a) principal: Alanda Maria Ferro Pereira
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Nívea Kelly Santos da Silva, Kathleen Caroline de Lima Carlos, Sheyla Fernandes, Renata Veras
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.36367/ntqr.9.2021.119-128
• topic: Rede Social; Intolerância; Política; Social Network; Intolerance; Policy

Introduction: Facebook sparked the interest of many researchers by becoming the largest social network in the world, given that anonymity allows many users to post intolerant comments without worrying about the consequences or punishments for their actions. Objective: Conduct an analysis of the comments of political party intolerance on Facebook. Method: It is an exploratory and descriptive qualitative study in which relevant publications from groups and pages referring to political party discussions on Facebook were selected. The comments of these publications were gathered in two corpus and the textual contents were processed using the IRAMUTEQ software. Results: The first corpus indicated the formation of 4 classes, (1) Election (27%); (2) Political Discourse (29.7%); (3) Oppositions (24.3%) and (4) Political Crimes (18.9%). The second corpus indicated the formation of 2 classes, (1) “Legacy of the old government” (52,2%) and (2) “Consequences of the current government” (47,8%). Conclusions. party-political discussions are anchored in stereotyped worldviews and some elements referring to the format of virtual interaction are at the base of the open and violent expression of political intolerance.