Olhares sobre os sindicatos brasileiros na contemporaneidade: estudo sobre comentários nas postagens da página do Facebook do MBL (2013-2018)

Abstract

Our article addresses the role of social networks in the Brazilian political field in the second decade of the 21st century through the study of the activities of the Free Brazil Movement. We stop at analysis of comments left by users on the MBL Facebook page about the end of the tax compulsory union in 2017. We analyzed how followers represent this episode. Thus, we were able to explore the controversies about right and left in contemporary Brazil. We start from the debate on the categories of right and left by political scientist Norberto Bobbio. He was It is also essential to use the methodology of digital ethnography to access the meanings involved in the interaction of internet users with the page of the right-wing movement in question. Our time frame comprises the period between 2013 and 2018, a time in which trade unionism faced greater obstacles, as with the advent of the Pension Reform (2017) we witnessed the end of what would be the basis for “union sovereignty”. The sources of our research are precisely the digital material (comments) collected in our quest to ethnograph the world of social networks.