Los discursos concurrentes que se convirtieron en rumor: la designación como ejercicio de poder
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Taking as an empirical reference the way in
which public health institutions in Brazil reacted
to the intense wave of unauthorized
information that was propagated during the
zika virus epidemic and its neurological consequences,
from 2015 to 2016, the text problematizes
the naming of divergent discourses
as “rumors”. Suported on a referential based
on the idea of communication as a symbolic
market and on the naming and mode of visibility
as a condition and mode of public existence,
discursive clashes on some controversial
themes are discussed, proposing the framing
of “rumors” as competing discourses. Their
main argument is that the framing of these
discourses as rumors is a strategy aimed at
their disqualification and that the practice
characterizes a form of exercise of discursive
power identified with nuclei that for some
reason are considered authorized voices in
Science and/or Health. In contrast, calls for
the recognition of these discourses as a place
of plurality of meanings and the flow of yearnings, expectations and social memories