Digital memory in Brazil : a fragmented and elastic negationist remembrance of the dictatorship

• Main Author: Balbino, Leda, (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2023.
• Series: Digital activism and society.
• Subjects: Collective memory > Brazil.; Digital media > Social aspects > Brazil.; Brazil > History > 1964-1985.; Brazil > Politics and government > 2003-; Social Science > Media Studies.; Memory.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781802628050
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (140 pages).

The memory of the military dictatorship (1964-1985) in Brazil is still under dispute after almost 40 years of re-democratization. Narratives contradicting the memory critical to this regime started to spread digitally in the 2000s, with former army captain Jair Bolsonaro becoming one of its leading...