COVID-19 under public domain: user’s arguments on a social network

• Autor(a) principal: Coelho Junior, Leconte de Lisle
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Ferreira, Stephanny Silva, Oliveira, Taíse Januário de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Estudos Universitários (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufpe.br/revistas/index.php/estudosuniversitarios/article/view/247642
• topic: Covid-19; social psychology of health; Iramuteq; Covid-19; Psicologia Social da Saúde; Iramuteq

The Covid-19 pandemic has been wiping out the society indiscriminately, affecting people of all social classes and age groups. It is a biopsychosocial phenomenon that affects physical and mental health. This research aimed to study the pandemic-related discourse in the public debate. In order to achieve this goal, a documentary research was carried out through the use of public domain material on a social network and it was supported by the perspective of social psychology of health. The data collection took place between the months of January and July of this year and it concentrated on the pages of two newspapers of great national importance. It was collected 8351 answers that, after a textual analysis by the Iramuteq program, result-ed in five classes: viruses; God; Bolsonaro; isolation; and health. A relevant fact is that the more time has passed since the beginning of the year the more the posts became politicized.