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MOBILIZATION ON TWITTER AGAINST NECROPOLITICS

Abstract

This article analyzes how Twitter users got involved in the João Pedro case, murdered on May 18, by police, in the city of Rio de Janeiro. The focus of this discussion is on understanding how the message stream passed by the victim's cousin through Twitter has moved through the nodes of the network; analyze user participation through hashtags and verify how this engagement may have contributed to the elucidation of the case. Through a mapping carried out within the Twitter platform, five main hashtags were found, elevated and fed by users in order to obtain an answer to the question: where was João Pedro? Through a theoretical and methodological framework that was mainly supported by Recuero (2012), Mbembe (2003), Almeida (2019), Malini (2018), França (2012) and Heen (2013), a random network analysis was carried out based on 50 tweets from the days close to the fact. It was observed that the primary tweet of the victim's cousin exceeded 3,000% of engagement in the social network, the general users had a predominant role in the construction of the narrative, since they were responsible for coordinating circulation strategies in addition, there was an increase in the search for terms such as 'racism' and 'police violence' at the time of the murder, showing a second life of the fact outside the social media environment.