Doomer: memes, redes sociais, desinformação e o crescimento da extrema-direita

• Autor(a) principal: Quental, Abel João Ribeiro Pacheco
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/56913
• topic: Meme; Propaganda digital; Desinformação; Populismo; Extremismo; Projetos editoriais; Domínio/Área Científica::Humanidades::Artes

In the context of the growth of far-right populism, “Doomer: Memes, social media, disinformation and far-right’s growth” analyzes digital communication, through memes, as a mode of propaganda of extremist discourse. Thus, considering memes as a new vocabulary in the digital context, it becomes relevant to acknowledge their formal characteristics and understand how they operate in favor of the far-right. As such, the investigation observes the origin, development and modes of circulation of the meme and investigates social media and their practices, characterized by filtering and by algorithmic personalization, in order to define the territory of circulation of memes and populists’ discourses. The study also analyzes the contemporary far-right discourse and its relationship with the new digital tools. The investigation comes together in two editorial projects. The first, Nobody:/The People: Ódio, Medo e Indignação, analyzes the context of the far-right in Portugal through an archive of memes, collected in the six months prior to the 2019 legislative elections that resulted in the election of the first far-right deputy for the Portuguese Assembly of the Republic after the 25th of April 1974. The second, The Daily Post -Truth, systematizes the creation and dissemination of false narratives in the digital context through a diagrammatical approach