Discursive virtual subject and effects of meanings on public cleanliness in sharing posts on social networks

Abstract

The popularization of the internet and, consequently, of social networks founds a socio-interactive space with the conditions to produce discourses that, by establishing new discursivization mechanisms, are decisive for the emergence of an entity characteristic of this place: the discursive virtual subject, the result of these new relationship forms. This, therefore, brought several implications to cyberspace, especially regarding shared information, which express ideological positions that are sometimes laden with discriminatory and prejudiced discourses, as they occur in face-to-face interactions. In this work, we seek to highlight these positions of intolerance through the analysis of a post on the profile of the Municipality of Araguaína-TO. For this, we assume that the act of sharing a post can be a means of expressing the ideological/discursive position of the sharer; that is, a post such as a photo, drawing, charge or other type not only concerns the discursive position of who produces the materiality, but also of who reproduces it, giving it visibility, when sharing it on their social network profile.