Recebi no Zap... Será qui é verdade?: discursos sobre o sujeito idoso internauta no Facebook

Abstract

This study aims to analyze discourses about the elderly Internet user in a Facebook group, in order to investigate how discursive positions set in this group and covered in knowledge-power structure statements about the “silver surfer” user. For this purpose, we start with Michel Foucault’s (1995, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011) theoretical framework and his contributions to discourse studies. In view of a methodological perspective, the present study is characterized as a descriptiveinterpretative approach of qualitative nature. The analyses show that, based on the focused enunciative positions, the elderly Internet user is seen in constant conflict with digital technologies and uses them for the assumption of a moral-religious agenda.