“Standing forest, empty belly”: the narratives about the CPI das ONGs on Facebook by parliamentarians
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CPI das ONGs, senators, FacebookAbstract
This article aims to understand how members of the parliamentary commission of inquiry (CPI) that investigated the activities of environmental non-governmental organizations (NGOs) used their social networks to discuss the issue, reflecting on how politicians use their pages and profiles in an attempt to create meanings and, at times, intervene in the public debate. To this end, the Facebook posts of the 17 parliamentarians who were full and alternate members of the CPI from June and December 2023 were analyzed, resulting in a corpus of 374 posts. The content was analyzed using Iramuteq to understand thematic divisions based on word classes. Findings show that the publications unfold into two main thematic classes, which branch into two additional classes, totaling four classes. It is observed that two classes are related to the main arguments mobilized during the commission, while the other two highlight the commission’s activities during the proceedings and parliamentary sessions, with constant use of hashtags featuring politicians’ names and slogans. The analysis indicates that the perceptions and meanings attributed by the parliamentarians to environmental organizations on their social networks suggest these entities are viewed as opposing the interests of Indigenous and riverine peoples in the Amazon region and are aligned with supposed hidden purposes associated with the current government or international funders.
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