Banca de DEFESA: FRANCISCO GEOCI DA SILVA

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STUDENT : FRANCISCO GEOCI DA SILVA
DATE: 22/09/2023
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Auditório 1 do Instituto Ágora
TITLE:

Disinformation's treatment: critical reading against the fake news and post-truth pandemic

KEY WORDS:

Literacies. Critical Multiliteracies. Critical reading. Fake news. Post-truth.

PAGES: 175
BIG AREA: Linguística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Linguística
SUBÁREA: Linguística Aplicada
SUMMARY:

Society is in a process of accentuated digitalization. As a result, different possibilities for instantaneous interactions in virtual spaces open up for individuals, as well as access to information from different sources. However, it cannot be disregarded that, in addition to the potential benefit, this has led to the emergence of new problems, aggravated by the great dissemination of content on the network and the formation of affinity spaces, the so-called bubbles, which are not very permeable to divergent thoughts. One of the results of this is the creation of groups whose individuals mutually reinforce shared confirmation biases, which are based on intersubjective aspects, such as beliefs, values and ideologies. In this context, the formation of “ecosystems” becomes remarkable, in which fake news and post-truths proliferate with greater intensity precisely because they use these biases to manipulate people's perception of reality, by proposing facts and alternative truths without the ballast of concrete situations. The result of this it’s the destabilization of the public debate on topics of great relevance to Brazilian society, such as the options for coping with the pandemic triggered by SARS-CoV-2, caused of the Covid-19, the result of which, as we have seen, was the worsening of public health problems by leading part of the population to risky behavior in the most delicate moments of the pandemic. The belief in panaceas and anti-science discourses – even promoted by political figures – partly motivated the relaxation of biosecurity measures, such as social distancing and the use of masks, on the other hand, encouraging the adoption of supposed treatments (without any proven effectiveness) to the detriment of the aforementioned measures and vaccination, the main prophylactic measure to avoid severe cases of Covid. Among other consequences, Brazil had to deal with a very significant number of losses. Therefore, and given that fake news and post-truths still continue to negatively influence the direction of the country, we took as an object of study the assumption of principles of critical reading aimed at identifying misinformation conveyed in texts shared on social networks and messengers. Due to the scenario described and the object of research presented, in this thesis, our general objective is to investigate, based on data analysis, the emergence of principles of critical reading responsive to fake news and post-truths. To accomplish this, we outlined two specific objectives: to identify recurrent strategies in the discursive construction of post-truths and their articulation with fake news; and to analyze how the principles emerging from the data, if any, can be used to reveal strategies adopted in the construction of post-truths. In order to achieve these objectives, we established an interface, within Applied Linguistics, between literacy studies from a sociocultural perspective, the pedagogy of multiliteracies, New Rhetoric and argumentation as an interactional process. As for the corpus data, they were generated based on documentary and bibliographic methodologies, contemplating some far-reaching fake news shared on social networks and in groups of messengers, and the analysis of the transmitted speeches was based on the qualitative and interpretive paradigm. Our study identified the emergence of some principles that can support the teaching-learning of critical reading aimed at training readers capable of identifying false content and (re)acting responsively to them. In addition, based on the results of the research, we were able to elaborate an e-book with 10 multiliteracies workshops aimed at teaching-learning the principles of critical reading inferred from the data analysis and in line with the identified and mapped strategies.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 2087054 - GLICIA MARILI AZEVEDO DE MEDEIROS TINOCO
Interno - ***.528.534-** - JOSE ROMERITO SILVA - UFRN
Interna - 332207 - MARIA DO SOCORRO OLIVEIRA
Externa à Instituição - ANGELA DEL CARMEN BUSTOS ROMERO DE KLEIMAN - UNICAMP
Externo à Instituição - DOROTEA FRANK KERSCH - Unisinos