“Li na internet, deve ser verdade”: uma análise discursiva dos dizeres sobre mulheres políticas nas redes sociais

Abstract

Our theoretical apparatus to develop the work “I read on the internet, it must be true”: a discursive analysis of the sayings about political women on social medias is based on the Discourse Analysis of French line, structured by Michel Pêcheux in France and developed in Brazil by Eni Orlandi, and from this theoretical perspective, we seek to analyze how discourse about women is constituted in false news that spread on the internet as being truths. Our main objective is to analyze clippings of discursive materialities found on social medias, especially on Facebook, which contain comments and opinions about women from false news, the so-called fake news, in order to try to explain which meanings produce the sayings about the political woman in the 21st century. For this, we selected cases of greater national repercussion, such as the death of city councilor Marielle Franco, in Rio de Janeiro, which caused several fake news stories that incited hatred against the victim, as well as several fake news about Manuela D'ávila, which spread on the internet during her candidacy for the country's vice presidency. As for the methodology, at first, we mapped publications that contained discourse about women - giving priority to cases of great repercussion -, so that we could then constitute the corpus of our work. Subsequently, we analized our research object, in order to identify whether the meanings that are currently at stake about women break or not with statements that the male chauvinism has stabilized in common sense and memory. At the end of this research, we explain how the statements about the political woman produce meanings that are still so male chauvinists in the 21st century, even with feminist struggles and all the conquests already achieved with them. In presenting the results, we seek to reflect on how the false news about political women are working behind ideologies that overlap men at the expense of women, devaluing them and reflect meanings that take women (political) as the object of sayings arising from male chauvinism discursive formations.