Fragmentação e colapso de públicos em rede

Abstract

The public sphere, especially in peripheral countries, was formed selectively, marginalizing various alternative audiences also known as counterpublics. We argue that social media have contradictory effects on the formation of counterpublics and on their relationship with hegemonic publics. On the one hand, social media promotes the fragmentation of publics and the meeting of people with common interests and characteristics, facilitating the formation and expansion of counterpublics. On the other hand, they offer a hybrid space between the public and the private, in which different contexts are collapsed, causing constant clashes between conflicting publics.