Fluxos desinformativos no Twitter: disputas narrativas e performáticas em torno da vacina de Covid-19

Abstract

The present work seeks to understand the disinformation flows present on Twitter regarding the alleged existence of microchips in covid-19 vaccines. For this research, credibility in communication processes surrounding the audioverbalvisual flows in digital environments is discussed from the perspective of narrative and performance, with a focus on the context of disinformation on Twitter. In the analysis, the concepts are articulated through the performance of network users in collecting tweets on the topic under study, with the aim of qualitatively exploring the flows found in the digital environment. The work navigated through the tangles of images, sounds, and texts that we consume on social media as ever-transient audioverbalvisual narratives. In contrast to modern western journalism, where journalistic objectivity is advocated as essential to the duty of informing society in a straightforward manner, we recognize the subjectivity of journalistic practice, as well as the fluidity and relational nature of the concept of truth, elements that are part of credibility construction. We consider the digital realm as a communicative environment without a beginning or an end, as it represents a constitutive element of human interactions and experiences. Through investigation, it is possible to understand that disinformation consists of contents that mimics journalism, but this is only one of the strategies found in the research, which is accompanied by flows that contribute to disinformation through network-established relationships, influenced by a plurality of issues such as politics, religion, and even through the use of irony. Therefore, disinformation flows are part of communication processes and are interpreted within their culturally, temporally, and historically established relationships.