Filmar, postar e punir: proximidades e contradições entre discursos criminológicos no contexto da pandemia

Abstract

Amid technological development, the media has updated its strategies to promote the construction of enemies, maintain established power relations, and preserve the lucrative industry of violence, leading to new challenges for legal regulation and public policies. Engagement, algorithms, online shaming and fake news: these and other expressions have gained prominence in on recent media criminology. In the last years, the increased prominence of the internet and the flood of sub-information and disinformation on social media have contributed to inflating the population's feelings of fear and insecurity. These factors, linked to the health crisis of the coronavirus pandemic (2020-2022) and the socio-political context of Brazil, have further externalized the punitive fervor inherited from the impact of liberal and positivist criminologies in the country. With a careful look at this scenario, the study explores the headlines and comments of two YouTube videos about videos about cases involving healthcare professionals accused of simulating the vaccination against Covid-19. Thus, under the inductive method and the theoretical foundation of critical criminology, the objective of this research is to explore the criminological characteristics that permeated punitive discourses in that panorama. Using Discourse Analysis (DA) as an interpretative technique, the results demonstrate that the digital environment consolidates punitivism in new forms but relies on old discourses that persist in repelling critical thinking and its commitment to human rights