Banca de DEFESA: GISELDA CRISTINA FERREIRA

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : GISELDA CRISTINA FERREIRA
DATE: 21/11/2023
TIME: 15:00
LOCAL: Sala 303 do Bloco B do Campus de Santo André da Universidade Federal do ABC e - Virtual - https://conferenciaweb.rnp.br/conference/rooms/ana-385/invite?show-suggestion=false
TITLE:

Covid-19  vs Politics and Polarization on Twitter

PAGES: 70
BIG AREA: Outra
AREA: Multidisciplinar
SUMMARY:

In the last three years, with the Covid-19 pandemic, the anti-vaccine movement has grown again, supported by conspiracy theories and false information, disseminated in different ways among the world's population. The COVID-19 pandemic has enhanced the anti-vaccination movement in Brazil, supported by unscientific theories and false news and the possibility of wide communication through social networks such as Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. The World Health Organization (WHO) classified the large volume of information on the subject against COVID-19 as an Infodemic. In this paper, we present a protocol to identify polarizing users (called polarizers) and study the profiles of Brazilian polarizers on Twitter (renamed to X some weeks ago). We analyzed polarizing interactions on Twitter (in Portuguese) to identify the main polarizers and how the conflicts they caused influenced the COVID-19 vaccination rate throughout the pandemic. This protocol uses data from this social network, graph theory, Java, and R-studio scripts to model and analyze the data. The information about the vaccination rate was obtained in a public database for the government called OpenDataSus. The results present the profiles of Twitter’s Polarizer (political position, gender, professional activity, immunization opinions). We observed that social and political events influenced the participation of these different profiles in conflicts and the vaccination rate.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - Interno ao Programa - 1563992 - ANA LIGIA BARBOUR SCOTT
Membro Titular - Examinador(a) Interno ao Programa - 1603840 - JOAO HENRIQUE KLEINSCHMIDT
Membro Titular - Examinador(a) Externo à Instituição - MARIA CONCEIÇÃO GOLOBOVANTE
Membro Suplente - Examinador(a) Externo ao Programa - 1545036 - CLAUDIO LUIS DE CAMARGO PENTEADO
Membro Suplente - Examinador(a) Externo à Instituição - RAFAEL PLANA SIMÕES