Discursive practices in digital media: An introduction to the special issue

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The main objective of this paper is to analyze, from a linguistic perspective and more specifically from discourse theories, the contemporary political claims that take place in the intense traffic between the internet and the urban space. The hashtag #elenão was selected as the place of observation, collection and analysis of the corpus, both for its relevance in the Brazilian context and for its functioning, which provides an understanding of the various manifestations of the corpus established between the utterance and the enunciation. We understand that the tension caused between online and offline, addressed by the language sciences based on the concept of “digital dualism”, can promote relevant theoretical and methodological, as well as political and social discussions.
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“Dualismo digital” no ativismo contemporâneo: uma abordagem discursiva da #elenão

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This article examines the semiotic implications of social media interactive processes established when Facebook profiles are memorialized following the user’s death. It also observes the communication processes that occur through the deceased’s contacts interactions with the virtual memorial page. It points to Facebook’s symbolic and systemic organization structure role in creating a specific comprehension of online and offline identities in the social media environment. The theoretical framework focuses on C. S. Peirce’s signs and semiosis studies to help understand the communication’s phenomenology revealed in this context as well as the process of continuity of the physical life through its symbolic representations on digital networks.
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The Continuum of Life on Facebook’s Virtual Memorials

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Through a review of the literature, the present article outlines the interaction forms that happen on Twitter when the participation is political, intending to show that the conversations made by the most significant collective on Twitter which is formed by ordinary users that post tweets 24/7 any given day with the sole intention to make public its political views, are invisible for the social studies. The actual political conversations attended by the social studies are related to parties, civic organizations, street manifestation, social activism, or some political manifestation that requires organization. The subject is important because these ordinary users with no agendas related to the formal or informal forms of political conversations known by the social studies form the biggest sector in the political social network par excellence, and no one is studying them. We propose the adjective ‘detached’ users to refer to these Twitter users.
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There is a group of political tweeters that nobody is studying: the detached

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This paper presents an initial systemic functional interpretation of the nuclear features of the phenomenon known as “context collapse”, which occurs when multiple online audiences (such as family, friends and coworkers) are “flattened” into a single group of potential recipients. After introducing the fundamental systemic functional dimensions of stratification and instantiation, we briefly present Hasan’s systemic description of the contextual parameter of Tenor, which deals with the potential relations and roles enacted by the participants of an interaction. We propose that such a contextual system enables us to describe with theoretical precision the nuclear features of context collapse: besides one-way digital contact in Mode, the selection of [addressee: absent: category] in the system of TEXTUAL ROLES and a generalized vagueness in the system of SOCIAL ROLES. Finally, we outline two major strategies employed to circumvent it: enactment--based and activation-based.
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Towards a systemic functional approach to context collapse

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This paper aims to discuss the motivations and effects of the production, distribution and interpretation of fake news stories, which draw on moral panics in contemporary Brazilian society. To do so, the article combines recent research on fake news, mainly from Media Studies, Sociology and Political Science, with the Critical Discourse Analysis perspective on meaning-making. The main hypothesis advanced is that this kind of fake news story lies in the tension between the evident and the absurd, as they seem to be oriented towards eliciting different readings and reactions from the endo and the exogroup. In terms of the endogroup, they may function as a means both to foster social cohesion and induce affective responses that intensify the dichotomization of identities. Regarding the exogroup, they may act as a means of drawing antagonism towards progressive groups and political parties, in a process that aims at diverting public debate to topics that not only keep the polarization aflame, but also shift the focus of attention away from the issues and policies that the neoconservative agenda deems problematic.
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Fake news, moral panic, and polarization in Brazil: A critical discursive approach

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Adopting the perspective of Peircean semiotics, the work proposes to analyze the concept of disin-formation based on the phenomenon of fake news and the “post-truth” neologism associated with it. We review some contemporary informational theories, which start from the relationship between communication, computing, society and technologies, to demonstrate the need to broaden the strictly analytical view of the concept of information, albeit grounded in cybernetics, to include the reflection of semiotics and pragmatism of Peirce. We will briefly present the foundations of semiotics, mainly in its relation to the concepts of beliefs and truth that form the framework of pragmatism. We propose, in particular, three complementary dimensions of the term disinformation based on some semiotic precepts that, in our view, allow a better understanding of its manifestation in the communicative processes present in social media.
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Analysis of the Concept of Disinformation from Peirce’s Semiotics

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Contemporary societies, especially some Western countries, have faced the return of neoconservatism, along with a desire for homogeneity, consensus, standardization, polarizations, and universalism in several social relations. With the election of alt-right, authoritarian, misogynist, and homophobe Jair Bolsonaro in 2018, many Brazilian citizens have faced a herculean challenge in relation to the maintenance of democracy and the provision of citizenship and critical education. The purpose of this paper is to problematize some media discourse produced by Bolsonaro and to investigate how such discourse has influenced the lives and education of our research participants (pre-service teachers). The first section investigates discourses and regimes of truth by explaining how discourses and ideologies influence our students’ lives and their future career. Section two points to the urgency of problematizing homophobic discourses, and section three queers Bolsonaro as an act of resistance.
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Queering Bolsonaro’s mediatic discourse: Strengthening Brazilian LGBTQIA+ communities through language education

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The main purpose of this essay is the analysis of the discourses expressed between Jaider Esbell’s Brazilian artistic sculptures and the monuments of the urban space. Based on J. Lotman’s notion of semiotic boundary space of culture, the analysis focuses on the controversial discursive relationships, such as intelligibility and unintelligibility; translation and untranslatability, and so on, observed from the historical tensioning of cultural languages. This analytical path leads us to intercultural relationships in which artistic languages in semiotic boundary spaces manifest the Aesthesis condition that has given the theoretical foundations for the Decolonial studies and the arising of a new episteme in the understanding of intercultural relationships. Thus, the semiotic concept of boundary space allows us to analyse various discursive relationships in historical-political contexts in the contemporary debate.
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Semiotic Boundary Spaces: An Exercise in Decolonial Aesthesis

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