Desastre da Samarco no Rio Doce: análise longitudinal do comportamento das páginas da Samarco, Vale e Fundação Renova no Facebook

Abstract

After more than three years of the Samarco’s disaster in the river Rio Doce, the crime still remains unresolved in the Brazilian courts. Amid legal disputes, an agreement signed the birth of the Renova Foundation, the entity responsible for reparations to victims and the disaster in Rio Doce. In the digital universe, affected population and mining companies Vale and Samarco dispute in social networks (netwar) the narrative that involves the disaster in Rio Doce. Understanding the miners companies (and the Foundation itself) as part of the Empire, Negri and Hardt's concept, we sought to understand the narratives built and defended by these companies and by the Renova Foundation. To do this, we use word graphs to understand the main relationships between the words used in the disaster posts on the Facebook pages of Vale, Samarco and the Renova Foundation in the years 2015, 2016 and 2017. The intensity of the connections between the terms within a graphical and comparative view of the years can provide valuable clues as to what communication strategies companies adopt around the Rio Doce disaster and whether the Renova Foundation, supported by mining companies resources, is influenced by their speech.