Revista Tempo e Argumento E-ISSN: 2175-1803
[email protected] Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina Brasil Neves Saraiva, João Gilberto For showing to U.S. and Brazilian people: a memory of bilateral relations through the social network Flickr Revista Tempo e Argumento, vol. 6, núm. 12, mayo-agosto, 2014, pp. 308-332 Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina Florianópolis, Brasil Available in: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=338132153016 How to cite Complete issue Scientific Information System More information about this article Network of Scientific Journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal Journal's homepage in redalyc.org Non-profit academic project, developed under the open access initiative e ‐ ISSN 2175 ‐ 1803 For showing to U.S. and Brazilian people: a memory of bilateral relations through the social network Flickr Abstract This paper investigates the memory of bilateral relations João Gilberto Neves Saraiva produced by the U.S. Embassy in Brazil on the social network Universidade Federal do Flickr in the early months of the administration of the Rio Grande do Norte. Democrat President Barack Obama. The set of images and Brazil texts in 19 posts made by the Embassy’s profile on the
[email protected] network in the first half of 2009 is analyzed here. It establishes connections between the production of memory, the U.S. political conjuncture, and U.S. political myths, such as Abraham Lincoln and John Kennedy. It also discusses ways of remembering and forgetting several events in bilateral relations throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, besides the positions published on the social network regarding Brazilian politics and history.