Mediatized Sapiens: Communicational knowledge

José Luiz Braga 56 .5. As we have seen, society habitually integrates critique circuits in its experimentation processes. However, the mediatization process by digital networks has not yet generated a suf- ficient critical level about what is done, about its modes and consequences. One of the social uses of the affordances offered by network technologies has been, on the contrary, that of net- works “between equals”, with the exacerbation of untested con- victions, which are only valid for the social group itself isolated in its beliefs. There seems to be an attempt to avoid debate and refuse open experiments, replacing them with “ad hoc certain- ties” – which, evidently, only work in a closed circuit. Overcoming this situation involves creating conditions that encourage learning and the acceptance of productive critique. .6. Communicational knowledge, in the measure of its critical development, can represent a significant contribution to the other CHS when it comes to studying or facing the chal- lenges posed by mediatization (as an interactional process of reference) for all social fields, insofar as they suffer procedural incidents or seek advances in their activities by activating the affordances and potentialities of technologies. It is done not through a technical formulation, in the logic of using material resources, but through processes of learning, experimentation, and critique, in a reformulating work of the previously usual modes of interaction. .7. Noticing the general embracing importance of learning as a characteristic of Homo sapiens, and realizing how societies learn through tentative and critical experimentation in the face of contextually confronted urgencies, it is worth asking how the educational sector - as a dispositif socially invented in historical processes to direct relevant learning to society - could improve its approaches, both directly in teaching and in preparation for the contextual learning that participants will inevitably face. One of Angelo Neckel’s questions in the interviewmen- tioned at the beginning of the article refers to this angle:

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