O discurso dos ateus em redes sociais: a emergência do ateísmo digital

Abstract

If social networks are today the space where religions manifest and fight, would atheism, as a denial of the religious or an affirmation of the non-transcendent, voice and space? I left untied a broader question to look for the ways in which the atheists' discourse emerges from social networks. Social networks are a vast world and, therefore, I tried to cut out the multiple actors and atheist agents in full operation. I selected, on some virtual media platforms - Instagram, Youtube and Facebook, communities like “Bar do Ateu” and ATEA (Associação de Ateus), among others. My hypothesis is that the discourse at work presents itself, on the one hand, with a tendency, that of neo-religionism, on the other, within the discourse, the multiple is seen. As I used it, I embarked on Discourse Analysis on the French view, with Michel Pêcheux and Michel Foucault. Social networks enabled the construction of new beliefs and subjectivities marked by atheism. The research results pointed out, among others, that there is a certain unity in the atheistic discourse, when it deals with disbelief in deities, but there is a plurality of discourses and atheistic conceptions among the different actors present in social networks.