The 2015 presidential impeachment for the eyes of information science: the categorization of themes in the speech of the federal members

Abstract

It deals with the thematic characterization of the votes cast by the federal deputies during the voting session in the Chamber of Deputies that accepted the opening of the impeachment process of the President Dilma Rousseff. Given the criticisms made by the media about the content of the votes, for presenting a fragile and egocentric structure, investigating the informational items cited during the vote is a way of understanding the themes that supported and motivated each vote. The mains objective was to identify, from the speeches given, the informational context and thus determine the thematic key items of each vote cast. Having as empirical object of study the individual transcription of each speech given by the parliamentarians and from the principles of similarity, differences and synonymy relationship, five macro categories were created to group the identified key items. Were identified 1,348 key items cited by parliamentarians as speech identifiers. Dividing this number by the total number of voters, 504 deputies, yields an average of almost 3 specific key items per vote. The data collected demonstrate that in parliamentary rhetoric during the casting of votes, the most recurring characterizing key item in the votes, whether for or against, was “Brazilian people”.