SOCIAL NETWORKS AND COVID-19 PANDEMIC: ANALYSIS OF PUBLICATIONS IN OPEN NETWORKS
Abstract
Abstract: This paper aims to present elements that point to the anti-enlightenment and regressive climate that has guided the behavior of a significant part of the Brazilian population during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is assumed that the mass media, especially social networks, play an excessively important role in the dissemination of such ideas. Preliminary results of this investigation point to the following elements: 1. The publications express a tendency not only in order to underestimate the role of scientific knowledge in facing the COVID 19 pandemic, but also with a certain hostility to that knowledge; 2. The ticket-thinking was identified as the primary form of the analyzed publications; 3. There is an important standardization of the content of the messages. The theoretical and methodological framework is the Critical Theory of Society.
Keywords: Social Networks. COVID-19 Pandemic. Social Psychology. Critical Theory of Society.
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