Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: SIMEIA REGO DE OLIVEIRA

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : SIMEIA REGO DE OLIVEIRA
DATE: 08/08/2025
TIME: 15:00
LOCAL: on-line
TITLE:

Anonymity on the Internet: An Analysis of Fake Profiles on X

KEY WORDS:

fake profile; anonymity; politics, platform X; digital media.

PAGES: 65
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
AREA: Comunicação
SUBÁREA: Relações Públicas e Propaganda
SUMMARY:

What are the interactions of fake online profiles on platform X regarding political content within their echo chambers? emerges as the big question of this thesis research. The hypotheses aim to confirm whether these interactions occur horizontally, yet negotiated and represented using the presentation of self (Goffman, 1985), to influence their echo chambers. The corpus focuses, a priori, on posts with Brazilian political content from three fake profiles: @Desesquerdizada, @allandospanos and @choquei and comments from 30 non-fake profiles on these posts. The methodological procedure focuses on interviews with these profiles, conducted through online forms, in two phases. The comments are analyzed and categories are identified that will constitute the sample for the development of a reference framework. The theoretical and methodological foundation draws on the concepts of presentation of self in Erving Goffman (1985), conversation in Raquel Recuero (2012), and filter bubbles in Eli Pariser (2020), which will organize the categories of this framework. The justification is based on the relevance of observing the interactions of these digital subjects and the fake in these interactions. The general objective is to carry out a study within communication demonstrating the interactions of fake profiles through the concept of presentation of self (Erving Goffman, 1985) on the X platform. The specific objectives are to catalog the fake electronic profiles that fit the research approach; to organize a conceptual framework of the categories aiming at the analysis of the interaction of fake electronic profiles, demonstrating their impression in a horizontalized, negotiated and represented way, and to contribute with a practical/theoretical reference for the field of communication.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Interno - 1789369 - BRENO DA SILVA CARVALHO
Interna - 1694773 - VALQUIRIA APARECIDA PASSOS KNEIPP
Externa à Instituição - JULIANA FERNANDES TEIXEIRA - UFPI