Misinformation and authoritarian discourses: The threatened democracy and the challenge to education
The text proposes a reflection on disinformation as a presupposition for the propagation of authoritarian discourses. Hannah Arendt (2016) analyzed political communication in Nazism and verified the presence of lies, among other manipulation strategies in favor of an authoritarian project. The exerc...
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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2023 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Institution: | Universidade Federal do Piauí (UFPI) |
| Repository: | Linguagens, Educação e Sociedade (Online) |
| Language: | Portuguese |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:periodicos.ufpi.br:article/3878 |
| Online Access: | https://periodicos.ufpi.br/index.php/lingedusoc/article/view/3878 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Desinformação Autoritarismo Democracia Educação Desinformación Educación Misinformation Authoritarianism Democracy Education |
| Summary: | The text proposes a reflection on disinformation as a presupposition for the propagation of authoritarian discourses. Hannah Arendt (2016) analyzed political communication in Nazism and verified the presence of lies, among other manipulation strategies in favor of an authoritarian project. The exercise demonstrated that the analysis of political communication techniques proves to be efficient in identifying and preventing the rise of new autocrats. In the speech "Aspects of the new right-wing extremism", delivered to students at the University of Vienna, Adorno presents publicity as an effective mechanism for transforming lies into truths, explains its functioning and the main manipulation tricks widely used by antidemocratic extremist movements. It is extremely important to disclose these indicators in the face of the beginning of the digitization of politics, as updated by the anthropologist Cesarino (2019, 2020 and 2021). The same cloudiness that prevents the differentiation of truth and lies in the new spaces of political communication disguises the discourse with authoritarian potential and configures itself as a risk to democracy and a challenge to the education of the new generations. To contribute to the reflection, we created a comparative table of the main discursive manipulation techniques present in extremism in the 1930s and the evolution of these strategies in cybernetics. This resource intends to serve as a subsidy for the creation of didactic strategies to prevent new extremisms and strengthen democratic processes. |
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