WhatsApp disruptions in Brazil: A content analysis of user and news media responses, 2015–2018

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Global Media and Communication Pub Date : 2021-08-23 DOI:10.1177/17427665211038530

Gabriel Pereira, Iago Bueno Bojczuk Camargo, Lisa Parks

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Abstract

Brazilians have adopted WhatsApp as a national media and communication infrastructure over the past several years, although it is controlled by its private US-based owner, Facebook. This article explores the diverse, contentious and influential roles the app played in the country during disruptions to its use from 2015 to 2018. Using content analysis, we critically engage with user-generated memes and news media coverage responding to these disruptions. In these cases, Brazilians self-reflexively questioned the app’s role in their everyday lives and country, reassessing what it means to rely on a national infrastructure owned by an unaccountable global media conglomerate.

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WhatsApp在巴西的中断：2015-2018年用户和新闻媒体反应的内容分析

过去几年，巴西人已将WhatsApp作为一个全国性的媒体和通信基础设施，尽管该公司由其美国私人所有者Facebook控制。本文探讨了该应用程序在2015年至2018年使用中断期间在该国发挥的各种、有争议和有影响力的作用。使用内容分析，我们批判性地参与用户生成的模因和回应这些中断的新闻媒体报道。在这些案例中，巴西人本能地质疑这款应用在他们的日常生活和国家中的作用，重新评估依赖一家不负责任的全球媒体集团拥有的国家基础设施意味着什么。

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Global Media and Communication COMMUNICATION-

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期刊介绍： Global Media and Communication is an international peer-reviewed journal launched in April 2005 as a key forum for articulating critical debates and developments in the continuously changing global media and communications environment. As a pioneering platform for the exchange of ideas and multiple perspectives, the journal addresses fresh and contentious research agendas and promotes an academic dialogue that is fully transnational and transdisciplinary in its scope. With a network of ten regional editors around the world, the journal offers a global source of material on international media and cultural processes. Special features include interviews, reviews of recent media developments and digests of policy documents and data reports from a variety of countries.

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