Fake News put human life at risk: the controversy of the yellow fever vaccination campaign in Brazil

Authors

  • Adriana Teixeira Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo. São Paulo, SP
  • Rogério Da Costa Santos Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo. São Paulo, SP

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29397/reciis.v14i1.1979

Keywords:

Fake news, Health, Communication, Biopolitics, Yellow fever, Vaccination.

Abstract

This article analyses the fake news that spread contents of public health using digital networks and crossplatform messaging applications. To list the arguments used by those people whom spread fake news to dispute the utterance of the truth, in the discourse fild, the authors have chosen the yellow fever vaccination campaign, launched in the outbreak of the disease in Brazil, in late 2016. We selected the texts of posts and audios that multiplied via WhatsApp, specifially in 2018, for analysis based on the theses on the production of truth and power by Michel Foucault and Nikolas Rose. Thus, we started a reflction on the action of fake news in defense of life while themselves put many lives at risk. The World Health Organization already points out fake news as one of the factors responsible for the drop in international levels of immunization.

Author Biographies

Adriana Teixeira, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo. São Paulo, SP

Mestrado em Comunicação e Semiótica pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo.

Rogério Da Costa Santos, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo. São Paulo, SP

Doutorado em História da Filosofi pela Université de Paris IV – Sorbonne.

Published

2020-03-31

How to Cite

Teixeira, A., & Santos, R. D. C. (2020). Fake News put human life at risk: the controversy of the yellow fever vaccination campaign in Brazil. Revista Eletrônica De Comunicação, Informação & Inovação Em Saúde, 14(1). https://doi.org/10.29397/reciis.v14i1.1979

Issue

Section

Fake news and health dossier