VIOLÊNCIA NA INTERNET: UM ESTUDO DO CYBERBULLYING NO FACEBOOK

Abstract

The most popular social network website of nowadays is about to have more than 900 millions of people connected by it. This is a start point to social relations and its features, in which we can find not only good communication, but concrete examples about how violence can be significant in such environment. This study makes a deep analysis about bullying in virtual context, showing how cyberbullying is being part and changing social organization with the massive participation of people on Facebook. For that, we show how communication technologies arrived until today with social networks and social networks websites, studying violence and its history and concept, showing through authors like Hannah Arendt (2009) how this is related to power and dominance, and comparing it to the contribution of Foucault (2009) about how surveillance is about punishment and control, then closing the theories about violence, surveillance and cyberbullying with Smith et al. (2009), talking about virtual violence and it relations to social networks websites. After that, as theorical reference and methodology, we use Critical Discourse Analysis with enphasis in Tridimentional Discourse Concept from Fairclough (2003) and Visual Grammar from Kress & Leeuwen (2006) to make a deep view into Facebook publications that present violence signals. For that we have a perspective not only at the publication itself, but in it production, distribution and reception, which makes this study caracterized like how cyberbullying can be found not only at school environment, but at virtual, adult and public context, what makes of bullying even more violent and full of abusive power