Electronic agora: some theoretical and methodological considerations

Authors

  • Jonatas Ferreira Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
  • Breno Fontes Universidade Federal de Pernambuco

Keywords:

june’s 2013 protests, politics, social networks, radical democracy

Abstract

The following essay asks for an analysis of the theoretical and methodological aspects that should guide future investigations on the 2013 political protests in Brazil and its consequences. Starting with a critical approach to the economicism that underlies a great number of the analysis of such events and reviewing critically the theory of social networks, as well as their methodological implications, the text offers the discourse analysis, as proffered by Laclau and Mouffe, as a more advantageous space for investigation.

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