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Inspired by international experiences of the Sleeping Giants movement, since May 2020, Brazilian users of social networks such as Twitter have been denouncing advertisers and website funding platforms accused of disseminating disinformation and hate speech. This paper evaluates what criteria are presented to justify these demonetization campaigns, considering how those responsible for the Sleeping Giants Brazil accounts explain their choices of targets and what they consider to be fake news and offensive speech. The paper evaluates how the movement responds to criticism and questioning from social network users, clarifying their choices, publishing content that works as explanations of their methods. These justifications are presented as educational materials to expose to the public the difficulties in defining limits to free speech on digital networks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to map master and doctoral research on children, adolescents and ICTs in the areas of Communication, Education and Psychology, in the last 10 years. The survey used Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) and Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia (IBICT) databases. Were analyzed 215 papers, considering thematic categories, research subjects, data collection and analysis methods and techniques. Despite the fragile indexing of the databases, which resulted in a non-exhaustive study, the analysis revealed that "access and use", "mediation", "appropriation", "learning" and "consumption" were the most addressed themes by the three areas. Topics of great relevance in the current public debate on the virtual sphere (such as cyberbulling, hate speech and digital rights) appeared little in the corpus. Adolescents are the priority subjects, followed by children and teachers. Qualitative and engaged research prevails, with ethnography, exploratory research, case studies, participant research and content analysis being the most used methodologies and methods. Finally, there was a preference for classic data collection techniques in the context of the humanities and social sciences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article "Presentation Disinformation, fake news, and hate speech in a dialogical perspective" discusses the relationship between disinformation, fake news, and hate speech from a dialogical perspective. The text highlights that these elements have been interconnected since the implementation of the disinformation system in 2015, and it is not just about fake news, but rather a systematic political and media effort to impose a version of the facts. The article presents five papers that address different topics related to this theme, such as the defamation of Marielle Franco, the researcher's responsibility in the face of fact-denying narratives, and the use of literature to raise awareness about the consequences of fake news. The objective of the journal issue is to encourage researchers and citizens to take responsibility in combating disinformation and defending democracy. [Extracted from the article]

In this theoretical articulation based on bibliographic research, the culture of intolerance, driven by the political context of hyperneoliberalism, is linked to the imaginary present on algorithmic platforms, where a fundamental mode of governance is practiced today. While not ignoring past manifestations of intolerance on the Internet, this paper intends to demonstrate how these platforms are environments even more favorable for such manifestations, given the peculiarities of their technology and their business model. To this end, certain aspects of their operation, classified as arena of attention, uneven omnimediation, calibrated exposure and flexible veridiction, are related to dispositions that Lacan associates with the imaginary and aggressiveness - respectively, narcissism, narcissistic identification with leaders, segregation and paranoia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to contribute to the study of reception within the scope of Discourse Analysis, analyzing the fine line between controversial manifestations and hate speech in comments by Internet users in response to a video published by former deputy Jean Wyllys, entitled “Which of the two is closest to – or more closely following – the teachings left by Jesus in the gospels? Which of the two most preserves true Christian values?” Based on the contributions of Charaudeau (2008) and Barros (2015), among others, we seek to analyze the comments produced by Internet users on this message. Through the differentiation of expressions of agreement and disagreement, we identified cases of extreme rejection to the speaker, which go beyond the scope of the controversy and are characterized as hate speech, revealing, in the analyzed data, traces of the so-called ideological matrix of the conservative right. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]