Lynching Network: Human Rights and Midiatic Effect

Abstract

This paper discusses a chain of discursive events revolving around an attempted lynching that occurred in the city of Rio de Janeiro. The incident circulated in social networks and traditional media vehicles and gave rise to other similar cases. By analyzing opposing discursive matrices, this study traces the dialogic chains that unfold in the categories of intertextuality, intergenericity, interdiscursivity. Social ontology of discourse is discussed, theorized in critical discourse analysis, focusing on the centrality of the dialogical chains in this field, in analyzing Facebook posts in their relation with an opinion piece in the news. The lynching case generates interdiscursive oppositions in the interpretation of the poverty-violence relationship, and becomes illustrative to understand the relation between what is constructed and reflected in the media and what actually occurs on the streets.