Banca de DEFESA: KEYLON VICENTE GOMES DE ANDRADE

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STUDENT : KEYLON VICENTE GOMES DE ANDRADE
DATE: 28/07/2022
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Via Videoconferência Google Meet (Pandemia Covid19)
TITLE:

POLITICAL SPEECH SPREAD BY ROBOTS AND THE INFLUENCE OF COMPUTATIONAL POLITICAL PROPAGANDA ON PUBLIC OPINION.

KEY WORDS:

social bots; digital social network; Twitter; political communication; discourse.

PAGES: 138
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
AREA: Comunicação
SUMMARY:

This dissertation intends to discuss the prominent role of social bots in disseminating political discourses on the internet, specifically on the social network website Twitter. We sought to reflect on the use and evolution of this technology in recent decades and analyze it as a communication and political propaganda tool, particularly in the
Brazilian context, in addition to its relationship with Bolsonarism. The discussion takes place from the perspective of the Filter Bubble (PARISER, 2012 and FERRARI, 2018) and studies on the computational political propaganda effects on public opinion and the political process (SANTINI, 2018). The research maps and examines the hashtags and
content spread by social bots on Twitter through data from the Bot Sentinel platform, which detected the activity of inauthentic profiles in the years 2020 and 2021 in order to highlight the discourse disseminated by automated profiles and the communication strategies used by them. It also aims to highlight and examine the role and performance of the Federal Government, journalists, alternative media, blogs, and online video channels in the production of speeches shared by bots. In addition, this research seeks to point out the relationship between the discourses disseminated by the mainstream media and by alternative media vehicles and the discourse propagated by social bots seeking to guide public opinion, political scenarios, and even the path of democracy.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Externo à Instituição - SÉRGIO AMADEU DA SILVEIRA - UFABC
Presidente - 2312853 - IZABELA DOMINGUES DA SILVA
Interno - 1805696 - ROGERIO LUIZ COVALESKI