| dc.description.abstract | Jair Bolsonaro was elected the thirty-eighth president of the Republic in
October 2018. A controversial figure, he gained popularity for his anti-PT and populist
speeches, attracting millions of loyal voters willing to defend him and support his
decisions unconditionally. In 2020, the highly contagious and possibly lethal new
coronavirus broke out, leading WHO to declare a new pandemic in March of the
same year. Jair Bolsonaro took different measures from those recommended by
health specialties, leading Brazil to reach the mark of more than 650,000 deaths by
the time of the publication of this research. The present research aims to collect
clues to the construction of bolsonarism as an identity through interactions made in
posts about covid-19 made by news pages on Facebook and to understand its
relationship with the highlighted events. Through a cartography carried out on the
social platform, 38 publications and 1224 interactions were collected to build a map
of meanings to understand aspects of bolsonarism. After the analysis, I observed that
the identity of the political group does not only have the image of Jair Bolsonaro as a
central figure, but creates its own identifications from its opponents, understood as
enemies. Among them are Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, PT, Rede Globo and Brazilian
Federal Court of Justice. | en |
