Liquid democracy, post-truth and the Brazilian electoral process

Authors

  • Joabson Melo Silva Aquino Universidade Federal de Alagoas - UFAL, Brasil https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1342-7962
  • Adriano Nascimento Silva Universidade Federal de Alagoas - UFAL

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.48017/dj.v9i2.2864

Keywords:

Democracia Líquida, Processo Eleitoral., Fake News

Abstract

This article analyzes the phenomenon of liquid democracy, post-truth and the effects of fake news in the Brazilian electoral process and its interconnections with the right to freedom of expression. A bibliographical research was carried out, combining the reflections elaborated by Bauman (2001) and Levitsky and Ziblatt (2018) on the phenomenon of liquid democracy and the effects of fake news in the Brazilian electoral process. In the first section, a historical outline of the Brazilian political-electoral process was carried out. In the second section, reflections were made on the concept of liquid democracy and how social networks and other contemporary means of communication can interfere with people's political positioning. In the third and last section, we sought to analyze how Brazilian constitutional and electoral law has regulated the phenomenon of mass dissemination of false news in the electoral process, since this type of phenomenon is capable of interfering in the electoral process, eliminating the parity of weapons and the balance of candidacies. It is concluded that certain social actors are capable of taking fake news as truth if it is not verified in a timely manner, therefore, it is necessary to study what is the impact on their public and individual opinion

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Author Biographies

Joabson Melo Silva Aquino, Universidade Federal de Alagoas - UFAL, Brasil

0000-0003-1342-7962; Federal University of Alagoas (UFAL). Social Worker. Teacher – Historian. Master's student in the Postgraduate Program in Social Work (PPGSS/UFAL). Completed Bachelor's Degree in Law from the Faculty of Law of Alagoas (FDA/UFAL), Brazil, E-mail: joabson.aquino@fda.ufal.br.

Adriano Nascimento Silva, Universidade Federal de Alagoas - UFAL

0000-0002-1378-951X; Federal University of Alagoas (UFAL). Adjunct professor of Political Theory and Political Economy at the Faculty of Social Service at the Federal University of Alagoas – UFAL. Professor of the Postgraduate Program in Social Work at the Federal University of Alagoas. PhD in Political Science from the State University of Campinas – Unicamp. Master in Social Service from the Federal University of Pernambuco – UFPE. Leader of the Research Group - CNPq in State, Law and Dependent Capitalism. Brazil, E-mail: adriano.nascimento@fsso.ufal.br.

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Published

2024-06-15

How to Cite

Melo Silva Aquino, J., & Silva, A. N. (2024). Liquid democracy, post-truth and the Brazilian electoral process. Diversitas Journal, 9(2). https://doi.org/10.48017/dj.v9i2.2864

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 2 (2024): Global solution: sustainability and solidarity

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Ciências Humanas e Sociais Aplicadas

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