Mediatization, polarization, and intolerance (between environments, media, and circulation)

Surveillance of the watchmen: analytics of mediatization and newsworthiness 161 the purposes of the said intervention in favor of public security from the increase of media activity 4 . The text is organized into three sections. In the first, I address the mediatization scenario and the presence of news- worthiness. In the second section, I address the communication crisis of journalistic mediation. In the third section, the previous questions point to the journalistic theme of military interven- tion in Rio de Janeiro as a research proposal in mediatization and journalism. 2. Mediatization and newsworthiness The space of newsworthiness in the contemporary world observes different approaches. In the perspective of Jaap van Ginneken (1998, p. 15-6), “We primarily experience the world through the lenses of science, of education, of the media [and] this world view is constantly nourished by the media.” This perspective had already been evaluated by Niklas Luhmann (2000, p. 1): “Whatever we know about our society, or indeed about the world in which we live, we know through the mass media.” Thus, a perspective is articulated that observes the con- nection between journalistic activity and social identity. This connection makes it possible to inquire about the legitimacy of the information disseminated by the journalistic activity, which, with mediatization, ceases to be situated in an understanding that centralizes the news process in the journalistic vehicle to place it as a product in dispute for the social recognition of a universe permanently updated by other media products (appar- ently non-journalistic) and processes that compete with it. The approach constructed in terms of mediatization is also related to the perspective of Stig Hjarvard (2012), an ap- proach that emerged as a theoretical framework for reflecting on the media in its relations with society and culture. Theoriz- ing from its location in the Nordic countries, the author points out that, by integrating itself into the routines of institutions and social life, the media is committed to the broad domain of 4 Actions defined by the Department of the National Public Security Force or Na- tional Public Security Force (FNSP).