A morte como acontecimento na web: o caso “Amin Khader” e a zona de tensão no ambiente virtual

Abstract

The aim of this project is to analyze the different meanings produced by the death as an internet event and the time for having the actual information. As a starting point for this research, it was chosen Amin Kader’s case, the comedian who was mistakenly noticed as dead on June 28, 2011. From the Discourse Analysis, in a French view point with special attention to the different forms of discourses, it is pointed the slips up in meanings that occur in the discourses at internet. The first step was to make a map to localize the news referred on-line and the multiple meanings with news at the Twitter. From an analysis that uses qualitative and quantitative techniques it must be done an exercise of reflection about the web, where the roles of journalists and internet users are mixed up and become confusing and may cause mistaken when the news are related. The proposal is to create a tension zone, a space in the virtual environment, where cannot be possible distinguish what is real and what is unreal. Besides that, this project intends to discuss how the medium itself restores the “truth”, or the real version.