Mariana Lins
Journalist and PhD in Communication at the Federal University of Pernambuco (Brazil). Research interests focus mainly on pop music, aging studies, gender and performance studies. Member of the scientific comittee of Popfilia Symposium, in Brazil, and co-editor of the book "Divas pop - corpo-som das cantoras pop na cultura midiática" (PPGCOM-UFMG, 2021).
Address: Brazil
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regime. From the memory of the fan, an itinerary takes us to the TV program Colorama, a kind of "cuban MTV". It postulates that the cultural consumption of Madonna artifacts on the island can be perceived as a dynamic of resistance, negotiation and solidarity of communities of fans that connect also through the social network Facebook.
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many of the government's “die-hard” supporters tend to be men and people over 60. As a result, Bolsonaro’s left-wing opponents use ageism coupled with sexism to vilify his electors instead of standing for a more reasonable debate. In our chapter, we analyse how issues of age and gender coincide with the stereotype and meme of “tia do zap” (“WhatsApp aunt”) that circulate on the Internet. This stereotype/meme contrues right-wing older people as people who spread fake news on social media. By examining the left’s and right’s use of this stereotype in Brazil, we problematize them both, highlighting the lack of intersectionality from the left. While the meme is an ageist oversimplification, it also indicates that old people’s support for Bolsonaro coincides with their retrieval of political and social agencies. We also present the political background of Brazil; discuss the far-right’s use of social media to disseminate fake news, a factor that reinforces the idea that conservative old people share false
information on the Internet; analyse some of the memes; present an example of an older person who has used this stereotype to reclaim her political and social agencies and do a critique of the left to which ageism has become a blind spot.
regime. From the memory of the fan, an itinerary takes us to the TV program Colorama, a kind of "cuban MTV". It postulates that the cultural consumption of Madonna artifacts on the island can be perceived as a dynamic of resistance, negotiation and solidarity of communities of fans that connect also through the social network Facebook.
many of the government's “die-hard” supporters tend to be men and people over 60. As a result, Bolsonaro’s left-wing opponents use ageism coupled with sexism to vilify his electors instead of standing for a more reasonable debate. In our chapter, we analyse how issues of age and gender coincide with the stereotype and meme of “tia do zap” (“WhatsApp aunt”) that circulate on the Internet. This stereotype/meme contrues right-wing older people as people who spread fake news on social media. By examining the left’s and right’s use of this stereotype in Brazil, we problematize them both, highlighting the lack of intersectionality from the left. While the meme is an ageist oversimplification, it also indicates that old people’s support for Bolsonaro coincides with their retrieval of political and social agencies. We also present the political background of Brazil; discuss the far-right’s use of social media to disseminate fake news, a factor that reinforces the idea that conservative old people share false
information on the Internet; analyse some of the memes; present an example of an older person who has used this stereotype to reclaim her political and social agencies and do a critique of the left to which ageism has become a blind spot.