Democracy Under Attack: Social Media and Disinformation in Brazilian Elections

Author:   Marisa von Bülow ,  Leonardo Avritzer ,  Eliara Santana
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   2024 ed.
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Pages:   172
Publication Date:   11 October 2024
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Author:   Marisa von Bülow ,  Leonardo Avritzer ,  Eliara Santana
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   2024 ed.
ISBN:  

9783031669774


ISBN 10:   3031669770
Pages:   172
Publication Date:   11 October 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

The Road Towards 2022: the threat to democracy and the uses and abuses of digital technologies.- The Politics of Content Moderation by Digital Platforms.- The State, Digital Platforms, and the Production of Payment-Induced Visibility: content financing in the 2022 Brazilian elections.- Elections Without Boundaries: the use of Facebook in the 2022 Brazilian presidential elections.- The Influence of Religion on the Second Round of the 2022 Presidential Elections.- Contention over (Dis)Information in the 2022 Elections: an analysis of right-wing WhatsApp groups.- Collective Action on WhatsApp and Telegram: on the framings that laid out the ground for the invasion of the Three Powers Plaza, Brazil, on January 8, 2023.- Am I Big Enough for Trending Topics? The impact of party size on the Twitter performance of gubernatorial candidates.- Unpacking Digital Politics: a multi-platform data gathering approach for the 2022 Brazilian elections.

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Marisa von Bülow is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Brasilia, Brazil. Author of several books and articles on digital activism, social movements, and transnational civil society networks, among them Building Transnational Networks: Civil Society and the Politics of Trade in the Americas (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2010). Since 2024, she is the Director of the Political Science Institute at the University of Brasilia. Leonardo Avritzer was Professor of Political Science at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil and is currently a professor at Escola Nacional de Administração Pública (ENAP) in Brasilia, Brazil. He is the author of several books and articles on participation, civil society, and democracy. He co-edited the book Eleições 2022 e a Reconstrução da Democracia no Brasil (""The 2022 election and the reconstruction of democracy in Brazil"") (Autêntica, 2023). Avritzer is the coordinator of the Institute of Democracy and the Democratization of Communications, which brings together researchers from four Brazilian institutions and three international ones. Eliara Santana is a journalist and holds a PhD in Linguistic Studies. She was an Associate Researcher of the Centre for Logic, Epistemology and Science History (CLE) at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil. She is the author of Jornal Nacional, um Ator Político em Cena (“Jornal Nacional - a political actor on the scene”) (Meraki, 2022) and many articles on media literacy, communication and politics, and disinformation.

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