Populismo digital: o uso do Twitter durante o segundo turno das eleições presidenciais de 2022

• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Emanuella Alves
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFS
• Texto Completo: https://ri.ufs.br/jspui/handle/riufs/19618
• topic: Sociologia; Eleições; Presidentes; Brasil; Twitter (rede social on-line); Notícias falsas; Jair Bolsonaro; Eleições presidenciais 2022; Resultado das urnas; Presidential election 2022; Fake News; Results of the polls

The research that follows was developed over two years, being the result of incessant searches for theoretical references and content collected on the Twitter platform of former President of the Republic Jair Bolsonaro. The central objective is to understand the impact that the information disclosed and articulated on the social platform Twitter has in electronic voting machines. This interest arises after the result of the 2018 elections, where the entire campaign of the candidate was projected to social platforms and had an effect at the polls with the victory of the candidate who served 4 years of atypical government because of the political strategy that involved his election campaign. The use of Twitter as an object of political communication between the candidate and his voters is not new, but in Brazil before 2018 there was no campaign designed and articulated with its focus 100% on social platforms. This strategy had already worked with other political actors outside Brazil, but it was only in 2018 that an electoral campaign focused on the use and engagement of social platforms was carried out. Within this perspective, it is necessary for sociology as a social science to turn its gaze to this new characteristic of political campaigns in Brazil. The atypical factor of the Jair Bolsonaro government is not restricted only to the political communication strategy, it crosses other issues such as: the concept of populism practiced through social platforms conceptualized as digital populism; dissemination of misinformation popularly called fake news; emergence of COVID 19 in his second year of government; inflation; unemployment aggravated by the social isolation necessary to combat the spread of COVID 19 still without a vaccine in 2020; lack of effective public policies to combat the pandemic; crisis within the government that was full of denunciations; exchange of ministers; attacks on the press and various ideological clashes; in addition to the political isolation of Brazil, which only established closer relations with the government of Donald Trump, currently the former president of the United States of America, and Bejamin Netanyahu, the former prime minister of Israel. The whole scenario that involved the Bolsonaro government since his extremely active 2018 election campaign on Twitter until his 2022 election campaign, which was also focused on social platforms, but less engaged and more politicized in the attack on his main opponent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva are part of the macro context of this research. But its primary focus and field research is focused on Twitter more precisely during the second round, where the presidency of the republic was disputed by Jair Bolsonaro and his PT opponent Luís Inácio Lula da Silva, the current president of Brazil democratically elected according to votes. determined by the TSE. The field research carried out on Twitter involves the entire period of the second round and extends a little until 01/08/2023 with the objective of analyzing Jair Bolsonaro's official Twitter page after the defeat at the polls until the day the Brazilian democracy was put in check with the anti-democratic attacks in the Federal District.