Danger lives on screen: Discursivities about digital in the media

Authors

  • Francisco Vieira da Silva Universidade Federal da Paraíba
  • Maria do Socorro Maia Fernandes Barbosa Professora do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras pela Universidade do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte

Abstract

In this work, we analyze some statements that have circulated in the media, specifically in Brazilian weekly magazines, such as Veja, Istoé and Época, which discusses a kind of alert to internet users about the danger originating from social networks, of the effects of wild exposure in the web, of spells that probe the cyberspace and indicate the facets of a society marked greatly by vigilance. In general lines, a discourse of risk, according to which all can potentially suffer the harmful consequences brought about by digital. Following a slant largely foucaultian, we try to trace the conditions of possibility that bring out the eruption of this discourse of caution related to the web, taking into account the ways in which the media takes on an educational role, in the sense to direct the behaviors of the users of digital technologies in their forays into cyberspace.

Keywords: discourse, web, media, vigilance.

Author Biography

Francisco Vieira da Silva, Universidade Federal da Paraíba

Doutorando do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Linguística da Universidade Federal da Paraíba

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Published

2014-12-26

How to Cite

Vieira da Silva, F., & Barbosa, M. do S. M. F. (2014). Danger lives on screen: Discursivities about digital in the media. Calidoscópio, 12(3), 314–322. Retrieved from https://revistas.unisinos.br/index.php/calidoscopio/article/view/cld.2014.123.06

Issue

Vol. 12 No. 3 (2014): September/December

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