Balls in the air: The macho politics of Brazil’s new president plus ex-president Dilma Rousseff’s thoughts on constitutional problems

Foley, Conor

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“…In his almost 30 consecutive years as a federal deputy, Jair Bolsonaro was known as a member of the "lower clergy" and was affiliated with no less than nine different political parties. A former member of the armed forces, when elected congressman, his votes came mainly from efforts that benefited that sector (Foley, 2019), and also from his criticism of human rights and his position in favour of harsher criminal laws and more vigorous police action.…”

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WhatsApp and political instability in Brazil: targeted messages and political radicalisation

Evangelista¹,

Bruno²

2019

Internet Policy Review

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In the 2018 presidential election, Brazil elected a fringe congressman, Jair Bolsonaro, despite his radical rhetoric that would suffice to shake the public image of any candidate in the world and the lack of traditional resources of his campaign. One of the hypotheses for this electoral success is that his campaign built a specific communication strategy that used internet platforms to communicate directly with different groups of voters. We describe the Brazilian electoral scenario of 2018, focusing on the use of the messaging app WhatsApp. We discuss how Bolsonaro's campaign tapped into sentiments and perceptions spread by the legacy media, adding a stronger conservatism. We gather evidence of centralised management of WhatsApp chat groups by political actors that emerge from the work of computer scientists research, newspaper articles and our own ethnographic work. The radicalisation of Brazilian politics could be partially explained as an effect of the use of political micro-targeting in a highly concentrated news media ecosystem, and zero-rating policies that fuels WhatsApp popularity, a platform with affordances that favours the spread of misinformation.

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Section: The Brazilian Context and The Rise Of Bolsonaro As A Political And Media "Myth"mentioning

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WhatsApp and political instability in Brazil: targeted messages and political radicalisation

Evangelista¹,

Bruno²

2019

Internet Policy Review

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Balls in the air: The macho politics of Brazil’s new president plus ex-president Dilma Rousseff’s thoughts on constitutional problems

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WhatsApp and political instability in Brazil: targeted messages and political radicalisation

WhatsApp and political instability in Brazil: targeted messages and political radicalisation

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