Lobbying, corruption, and influence peddling: defining concepts to understand the relevance of regulation
December 1, 2019The birth of the control device over fake news: a Critical Discourse Analysis in the Social Communication Council of the National Congress
January 1, 2020THE BIRTH OF THE FAKE NEWS CONTROL DEVICE: a Critical Discourse Analysis at the Social Communication Council of the National Congress
The purpose of this article is to understand, through the Critical Discourse Analysis, how the
concept of fake news is being constructed by the national powers since the context in which
the narratives about democracy and elections are the support of the discourses that justify the
necessity to create devices like mapping techniques, legislation and punishments for the
control of fake news. The material analyzed is the representatives’ speeches of the National
Congress, the Superior Electoral Court and the Ministry of Justice and Public Security, on the
opening ceremony of the “Fake News and Democracy Seminar”, held by the National
Communication Council. Working with three axes of analysis – (1) definition, (1) impact and
(3) proposal of action – on fake news, we identified that despite the consensus about the
relevance of the theme and the need for control, there is no a clear definition of what fake
news is or what they intend to control.
Author: Maíra Moraes Vitorino
Source: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Maira-Moraes-4/publication/340414782_O_NASCIMENTO_DO_DISPOSITIVO_DE_CONTROLE_SOBRE_FAKE_NEWS_uma_Analise_Critica_do_Discurso_no_Conselho_de_Comunicacao_Social_do_Congresso_Nacional/links/5e87682f299bf13079785440/O-NASCIMENTO-DO-DISPOSITIVO-DE-CONTROLE-SOBRE-FAKE-NEWS-uma-Analise-Critica-do-Discurso-no-Conselho-de-Comunicacao-Social-do-Congresso-Nacional.pdf