Role of the Cybercordel for Information Circulation in Social Media

Abstract

This paper analyzes the role of Cybercordéis for information circulation in social media. By adopting a scientific bricolage perspective, wherein social media network analysis, social markers and discursive semantics overlap, we seek to understand this phenomenon in all its complexity and how it manifests in social media, especially due to the volatile and fluid characteristics of cyberinformation. Results show that cybercordéis circulate through eight social markets (class, ethnicity-race, gender, generation, regionality, nationality, religion and sexuality), whose practices reveal a Brazil marked by contradictions and impacted significant sociocultural, info-educational and economic needs. Information circulates in cybercordéis in a particular fashion, demonstrating that these digital objects contain an information poetics rich in cultural and social markers that represent its people and their collective memories. Thus, we must advance on the debate about respecting standpoints, expanding the anti-establishment struggle and reflecting on decolonial knowledge, for analyzing Cordel literature requires identifying oneself as a “favelado do conhecimento” (outcast of knowledge), as posited by Gutiérrez (2006).