O lado sombrio dos memes - uma análise crítica discursivo-jurídica da violência digital direcionada ao gênero feminino : crimes invisibilizados pelo Estado

Abstract

Among the language studies inserted into today's, Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) studies are one of the most prominent for observing power relations in society and how these relations are constructed and constituted by discursive elements. Thus, in order to promote studies that already have a large space in academia, this research sought as a subject of observation the discursive phenomena that occur on the internet, more specifically the phenomena intrinsic to the production and transmission of memes. Furthermore, aiming to achieve the expansion of transdisciplinarity and be able to contemplate the social sciences from a more cohesive perspective, an analysis of discursive phenomena was chosen not only by CDA, but also by postulates in legal sciences. For the purpose of enable such a study, it was limited to an investigation process whose corpora are the reproductions/productions and transmissions of memes in which hate speeches towards feminine (misogynistic, homophobic and transphobic) are intertwined in their content, mischaracterizing the which would be an internet production focused on humor and composing a possible typical, anti-legal and culpable act. Therefore, the aim of the study was to a) identify what memes would be, and the mechanisms used in memes to spread hate speech against women under the distortion of humor; b) prove that certain meme productions do not comply with legality, but rather commit an illicit act, using as corpora memes that discursively violate the feminine; c) reflect on the existing impunity for the creation and dissemination of this specific kind of memes and point out possible effects of these on social relations. To enable the studies to be carried out, a qualitative research methodology was adopted, through the review of existing literature such as these, articles, dissertations and the theoretical postulates of central authors in the areas of memetics, CDA, sociology and criminal and constitutional law. Finally, after research and considerations, a three-dimensional analysis of the corpora was carried out — sociological, linguistic-discursive and legal. In this way, achieving conclusive and provocative results for the State and the academic community in relation to the discursive and legal phenomena related to the meme.