Español Crimen, conflicto y sociedad digital

This article analyses some of the digital spaces of Movimento Brasil Livre (MBL), one of the representatives of the so-called Brazilian "new right wing", focusing on the group's role in the proliferation of fake news on the occasion of the assassination of Brazilian politician Marielle Franco in March 2018. The research relates the theme to the notion of "emotional public sphere" (Lange 2014) and to Hine's (2004) considerations on "media events". Starting from the MBL's official page and its Facebook profile, the research explores both how the group constitutes its political narrative on such platforms, and some of the social interaction that dialogue with them through the dissemination of the rumours. Digital ethnographic observations were added to the critical analysis of discourse and visual phenomena on the internet, to try to understand the mechanisms of "recognitions" (Barbero 2012) and "productions of oneself" (Haynes 2016) that informed the public debate generated by the issue. The online interventions configured themselves as a relevant source to investigate the symbolic practices and cultural dynamics of their actors, and allowed reflections on the ambiguous political role of digital media.