Banca de DEFESA: Rodolfo Dias de Araujo

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : Rodolfo Dias de Araujo
DATE: 21/02/2024
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: google meet
TITLE:

ANTI-SCIENCE IN ACTION: AN ACTOR-NETWORK THEORY APPROACH FROM AN ANTI-VACCINE GROUP ON FACEBOOK

KEY WORDS:

Denialism; Vaccines; Actor-Network Theory; Netnography; Epistemological
bunker.

PAGES: 200
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Educação
SUMMARY:

This research maps the processes of producing realities of members of the digital community
on Facebook entitled Vacinas: O lado obscuro das vacinas. To do this, we identified the entities
that were most influential and important for which members joined. Next, we seek to build
forms of visualization that allow us to understand the reality(s) that are produced. The main
theoretical-conceptual framework was based on the guidelines of the Actor-Network Theory
(ANT) and the studies of Bruno Latour and collaborators. In addition to these, Netnography

(KOZINETS, 2014) and Social Network Analysis (SNA) were adopted as theoretical-
methodological references. Data collection took place from March to April 2021, moments in

which we immersed ourselves in monitoring the community on Facebook, collecting content
and comments deposited by members on their posts. Our first analyzes are surrounded by a
social census seeking to characterize information about who the members are. This survey led
us to identify a predominance of female members, residents of the South and Southeast regions
of Brazil, being parents and with access to secondary and/or higher education. Together, we
describe the space-time that makes up the digital community and focus on the modes of
participation involved between the digital platform and humans, namely: Perpetuator,
Influencer, Maintainer, Questioner, Initiator, Referrer, Interested and Marker. Subsequently,
we identified the most important and influential entities in that community by marking and
treating the nouns present in the posts and comments. Having made our inventory of what
makes up the community, we were guided by the concept of performance (SORENSEN, 2009)
in order to relate what emerges between the relationships of the inventoried elements. Our
results indicated a price for group members for official science work (LATOUR, 1994); a
predominance of the female figure as a watchdog of the relationship between herself, her
children and health professionals; the importance of the work carried out by referring members
in association with the links; the perception of a city detached from an environment through
cleaning processes; and the proposal of community members to use natural elements as
preventive measures against diseases. Such performances showed us an organization shaped
like an epistemological bunker (FURMAN, 2023), in which community members protected a
feeling of dominion and service to nature through an attack on a science that is not only
mediated in the laboratory (LATOUR , 2011), but also proposes a link between human bodies
and the nature of this world (LATOUR, 2020a).

BANKING MEMBERS:
Externa à Instituição - ALYNE DE CASTRO COSTA - PUC - RJ
Interno - 1568423 - DIEGO DE SOUSA MENDES
Externo à Instituição - FRANCISCO ANGELO COUTINHO - UFMG
Presidente - 1927311 - GABRIEL MENEZES VIANA