Das grades às redes: a constituição do sujeito criminoso no espaço heterotópico do Youtube

Abstract

The web, as heterotopia par excellence of our time, becomes a propitious space, not only to make itself seen, but also to make see the other. In this context, we identify the presence of the infamous criminals who gain hypervisibility when they are arrested and have their interviews published on the internet. These videos are shared on Youtube and become a kind of patrimony, for "always there", and can be resumed and renumbered indefinitely in the form of comments, memes, remix etc. Our objective in this research is to analyze how the web promotes the displacement of these infamous subjects of invisibility to hypervisibility. In addition, we intend to analyze how the utterances produced by these subjects reverberate within the space of the web; investigate the effects of power and resistance established in this space; to verify the practices of objectification / subjectivation that constitute these infamous subjects in cyberspace. In order to meet these objectives, we seek support in the Foucaultian Discourse Studies on subject and power, mobilizing, beyond the concepts of discourse, event and statement, the notions of truth, knowledge and power, body and heterotopia. We are also anchored in Pierre Lévy's studies on cyberspace, interactivity and social movement in cyberculture. Methodologically, this research is characterized as qualitative, since it is essentially interpretive. For the constitution of the corpus, we consider the discursive principle of dispersion, since we are analyzing it in the discontinuous space of the file of which it forms part. Among the videos found in this file, we selected two that stood out for their singularities: (a) Morre Diábo (2010); (b) Mc Beijinho "Me libera Nega" (2017). As a result, this research has revealed the importance of the web as a place where the structures of ethics and morale are shaken, for though infamous subjects occupy the position of criminals, transgressors and even murderers, they do not provoke revolt or hatred, but rather the laughter of the internauts, thus producing through the eyes of the other and the practices of conflicting identities.