Technopower on twitter platform

Abstract

The objective is to analyze big techs in the formation of collective subjectivity. Therefore, research was carried out on the Twitter Platform with the objective of identifying its functioning, the formation of technological networks, the enunciation of narratives associated with the political principles, in the context of the elections for the Presidency of the Republic of Brazil, in 2022. The methodology produces graphs that represent networks, and quantitative data on influencers, their narratives, tweets and retweets. It was necessary to examine two items, first associated with their physical dimension, including technical equipment, and mathematical data. Secondly, in its social dimension, it involves the formation of techno-political networks associated with certain political events. To analyze how the polarization of society occurred, between the extreme authoritarian camp and the democratic left camp. It produces a conflict associated with two conceptions of the world that is being carried out in a rhizomatic way in the world space. It is urgent to focus on the formulation and implementation of public policies for the regulation of socio-technical networks, to place limits on the exercise of information technology corporations, their platforms and techno-political networks that are destroying the foundations of democracy.