Mediatized Sapiens: Communicational knowledge

Mediatization: what we say and what we think 23 gest paths that cut across the usual ones because they go against the current programs, curricula, and scheduled and planned ac- tivities, even if disguised by current technology. Understanding that mediatization is an exercise without programs, it is possible and fair to ask: what Univer- sity emerges from the daily life affected by the pandemic, un- derstood as a possible mediatized dimension of social reality? (Fausto Neto) The answer seems to impose itself: the University will only be ready to respond to challenges analogous to the one that the pandemic presented if it is capable of revising its habits and certainties; that is, to become mediatized, it requires that the University can review itself in its practices and projects. These reviews impose the necessary empirical observation attentive to phenomenal modulations that, unforeseen, require the risk of proposing comprehension rather than safe explanations. One knows that the demonstrations of university power emanate from the comfort and security of those who hold the academic places of speech, echoes of certainties of those who know and stand against the doubt, always risky, of those who seek to know and, as a consequence, ask (Igor Sacramento). For the University to find itself in a condition to answer the questions proposed by the contemporary, it will be necessary to understand communicology of mediatization is always in process and, therefore, will be more able to adapt to the new that requires invention than to the use of the learning of what is conserved by tradition or comfort. Without quick and immedi- ate empiricism, the University needs to mediatize itself to learn how to live among media and, above all, to be able to discover itself as a social media that is not commonplace but critical of its work and its possibilities of acting in the territory of knowledge in mediatization. 5. Mediatization: from thought to critical conscience In the complexity of this territory without proven paths, there is no established or desirable literacy because we always present mediatization as if it were new (Michael Fors-

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