THE BRUMADINHO DAM COLLAPSE AND DISCURSIVITIES IN TWITTER

Abstract

In this article, we aim to analyze the discursivization, in material published on Twitter, of the Brumadinho dam collapse, using the theoretical framework of Discourse Analysis (AD) of Pecheuxtian affiliation. For this, we mobilize the theoretical notions of subject, discursive memory, discursive metaphor and silencing, among others. The discursive corpus consisted of a tweet from the G1 portal, a tweet from Mídia NINJA, a tweet from O Antagonista, a tweet from a public figure mentioned in the Antagonist tweet, in addition to seven digital comments published in responses to these posts. We divided these publications into ten discursive sequences and, as they are digital materialities, we made the analysis considering the specificities of this medium, in which they circulate. The results show that, in the discursive sequences analyzed, a dispute of narratives is established, with meaning effects in tension, working on the same event from antagonistic subject positions and, furthermore, the gestures of interpretation of journalistic media affect the meanings of the discourses inscribed in the materialities, whether in the mainstream media or in the alternative media.