HIV/AIDS, COVID-19 e necropolítica no governo bolsonaro: uma análise de redes semânticas a partir de comentários no Twitter

Abstract

This research analyzes posts on digital social network Twitter containing the terms 'HIV/Aids' and 'Covid-19', published between march and april 2021. We are encouraged to understand how the relation between HIV/AIDS and the Covid-19 pandemic reverberate from the circulation of comments on Twitter and motivated for the speeches of President Jair Bolsonaro in this context. For that, we opted for a quantitative-qualitative method of analysis of semantic networks based on the method of collecting digital content, identifying the pairs or sets of words that are most connected, forming networks of analogous meanings, called clusters. As a result, we identified the political-partisan polarization of the comments about Covid-19 and HIV/AIDS on Twitter, the re-emergence of stigmas associated with specific groups, such as homosexuals and asians, capitalist pharmacology in the promotion of the “covid kit” and the chronicity of AIDS and the large-scale spread of disinformation about the two diseases, revealing a field of tensions and narrative and media disputes as a necropolitical tool.