Discursive authority in Covid-19 vaccination fact-checking
The case of @butantanoficial on Instagram
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21809185 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Augusto Vinicius de Oliveira (0000-0002-5974-6988, Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)), Gabriel Guimarães Alexandre (0000-0002-1432-1118, Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)), Fabiana Cristina Komesu (0000-0002-3820-1559, Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)), Juliana Alves Assis (0000-0002-9383-4850, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais), Christoph Flückiger (0000-0002-2900-0616, Université de Lille), Cédric Fluckiger |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 213-236 |
| Publication date | 2024-07-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Revista do GEL (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1806-4906 • E-ISSN: 1984-591X |
| Publisher | Grupo de Estudos Linguísticos do Estado de São Paulo (PUBLISHER • BR) |
| DOI | 10.21165/gel.v20i3.3584 |
| OpenAlex | W4400672447 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
From the theoretical-methodological perspective of New Literacy Studies and French Discourse Analysis, this paper aims to investigate discursive strategies employed by Butantan Institute in publications aimed at debunking dis- or misinformation about COVID-19 vaccination in Brazil. The corpus consists of 32 visual-verbal textual productions (posts) published by the @butantanoficial profile on the digital social network Instagram in the years 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023. The hypothesis, grounded in the studies of Amossy (2022), is that over these years, the Institute has made various attempts to establish authority in the discourse surrounding COVID-19 vaccination, particularly concerning the possession of what would be perceived as “true statements” about vaccination, in contrast to “false statements”, within a context of disinformation and fake news. The results highlight the prioritization of strategies in the discursive construction and re-elaboration of an ethos closely tied to different demands from the public as well as to interests of the Institute itself, across various stages of the COVID-19 pandemic
Discourse analysis · Disinformation · Ethos · Linguistics · Misinformation · Pandemic · Political science · Social media · Sociology · Communication and COVID-19 Impact · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection · History · Law · Medicine · Misinformation and Its Impacts
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |