DEMOCRACY AS A DISPUTED ‘MESSAGE’ IN BRAZIL’S 2022 ELECTIONS:

TRACING ECHOES OF TRUMPISM AND (DE)NATURALISATION OF VIOLENCE ACROSS MEDIA SPACES

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https://doi.org/10.26512/les.v24i2.47609

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Democracy crisis, Trumpism and voting system, Discourse Analysis, Transmediatisation and translation, Language and (de)naturalisation of violence

Abstract

Influenced by Trumpism, Jair Bolsonaro, the president of Brazil, has been presenting unsubstantiated claims about the existence of purported vulnerabilities in the local electronic voting system during the 2022 presidential race. As Bolsonaro gives visibility to such claims, that system (and consequently democracy) can be performatively (or ‘productively’) discredited and targeted through digital circulation and textual violence. This research resorts to Foucauldian constructs and transdisciplinary perspectives to trace different media spaces. These point to how disputes and dynamics of (de)naturalisation of violence become (in)visible in Brazil’s 2022 electoral context. 

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2023-12-28

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de Souza Júnior, J. (2023). DEMOCRACY AS A DISPUTED ‘MESSAGE’ IN BRAZIL’S 2022 ELECTIONS: : TRACING ECHOES OF TRUMPISM AND (DE)NATURALISATION OF VIOLENCE ACROSS MEDIA SPACES . Papers of Language and Society, 24(2), 101–120. https://doi.org/10.26512/les.v24i2.47609

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Vol. 24 No. 2 (2023): Fluxo contínuo e Dossiê REDIGE – Rede Discurso e Gênero

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