Violence in the network: Discourses about greta thunberg in online comments

Abstract

This text analyses the production of violence in discourses about the Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, which are materialized in online comments in the Uol website. Theoretically, the study is based on the discursive studies from the reflections of Michael Foucault. This is a descriptive-interpretative research, with a predominant qualitative approach. The corpus is constituted of eight online comments, produced from three news published in the Uol website about Thunberg, in december 2019. The analysis reveal that the discursive positioning expressed in the comments violate Greta’s figure and characterize her as inapt, intellectually delayed and easy to be manipulated by financial and political groups with obscure interests.