YOUNGS AND VIOLENCE: A STUDY ON FACEBOOK NEWS COMMENTS

ABSTRACT

This essay presents reflections on comments of internauts about young people and their involvement in violence in the city of Cascavel, Paraná, Brazil. The comments were extracted from a Facebook page of CGN (Central News Gazette; in Portuguese, Central Gazeta de Notícias), which provides military police occurrence reports. It is a virtual ethnographic research, whose methodological strategy is anchored in Maffesoli’s epistemological foundations of everyday life sociology, as well as in Girard’s anthropological violence. It was observed in the comments the presence of shared emotions that go back to some archaisms, emphasizing the mechanism of the scapegoat.

Keywords
Young; Violence; Internet; Postmodernity