Politics and health in social networks: an analysis of female collectives during the Covid-19 pandemic

Abstract

This article aims to analyze how users of online social networks, organized in different collectives, reacted to the pandemic context, identifying their forms of interaction and investigating how relationships on digital platforms, especially on Facebook, can influence individual and collective behaviors. From the methodological frameworks of content analysis and in depth hermeneutics, two female groups with an expressive performance in the current political scenario were analyzed. The results obtained show the polarization in the positions regarding the pandemic coping measures and the significant presence of misinformation among the shared contents.