Political talks and mediatization on Facebook: interactions and conflicts based on comments about the actions of Evangelical Parliament Front¹

Abstract

The article elaborates reflexive notes on comments made on Facebook about the actions of the Evangelical Parliament Front (EPF) regarding the procedures of the Family Statute (PL 6583 of 2013) implementation. We firstly evoked the concept of mediatization in order to address the expansion of interaction opportunities in virtual spaces. Among the most exposed institutions to the dynamics of mediatization, the article turns to the intersections among politics, religion and the ways of activating speeches and conversations on Facebook. The corpus of analysis consists of a set of 2.187 comments published on the official fanpage of Época magazine. The methodological path traced is inspired by references about online conversations and dynamics of argument exchange, reciprocal justification and incivility when what is at stake is a better understanding or resolution of moral problems. The analysis, in turn, is divided into three axes: a) the relationship between interlocutors through identity markers; b) the explanation and justification of premises that support the considerations and arguments exchanged; and c) the negotiation of justice parameters that contemplate collective interests.

Keywords
Midiatization; Religion; Policy; Family; Facebook