The 2018 Brazilian Elections and the Digital World: a case study about the digital game Bolsomito 2k18

Abstract

This article is the result of a collective study conducted by anthropology researchers who study electronic games from the Center for Studies of Modernity (NEMO), INCT / InEAC / UFF. It is an analysis of a game produced during the 2018 election campaign entitled “Bolsomito 2k18”. The fieldwork began shortly after the game's release, just before the first round of voting, and lasted until the forty-fifth day of the new Jair Bolsonaro government. The article is presented in three parts: in the first, we present a dense description of the game2; in the second part we raise considerations about the Spiritual Warfare and Seven Mountains doctrines preached by the pastor and now minister, Damares Alves.3 In the third part we discuss the ethnography and proposals of the plan for attaining power found in the Seven Mountain power plan, according to the theory of justification and cités, developed by Boltanski and Thévenot (1991).

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“…Hilltendo focused on imposing Hillary Clinton popularity with some negative framing, such as Hillary as Middle East agency with Money-oriented agenda and a person who would plan to change the constitution (Pagliary & O'Sullivan, 2018). This practice was copied in Brazil with the mobile games Bolsomito 2K18 to persuade the users to play the Bolsonaro character to kill the political opponent and minority group activist (Gomes et al, 2019). These two cases are directly linked with right-wing populism groups (conservative) in Brazil and USA.…”