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

Image in circulation: shattering of the gaze and memory 179 age involving the migratory crises, or even by the historical vi- sions that bring us an angle regarding wars, territorial disputes, and terrorist attacks that make religions, movements, and races synonymous. Western views of the expression “Muslim” put it in a type of “form, including in the visual construction of photo- graphs when, for example, we adopt the left-right axis. Luciano Guimarães (2006) already tackled this visual journalistic strat- egy as a way of framing the comprehension (reading) of the con- flicts that involve the Arabian people. Thus, when we think of media imaginary, we are think- ing of a set of images that circulate and, therefore, trigger mul- tiple meanings around determined issues, even promoting constant points of contact with this deeper imaginary, which is linked to symbolic images, to our imaginative ability. It is be- cause the expansion of the supply of media images complexes the creation of interior images from the moment when the pre- vious become barriers or modeling images (ROSA, 2012). Let us return to the expression “Muslim”: although our experience or knowledge of the culture of Muslim people is brief, the risk to the stereotype is broad, as there is a range of images that rein- force this idea, even when it should be positive. In the case of the children’s football team that was trapped in a cave in Thailand in 2018, the mention that the only boy who could speak English to communicate with the rescue divers was a Syrian refugee, a Muslim boy, has put him in a place of distinction in relation to the other T s. hus, when we think of media imaginary, we are think- ing of a set of images that circulate and, therefore, trigger mul- tiple meanings around determined issues, even promoting constant points of contact with this deeper imaginary, which is linked to symbolic images, to our imaginative ability. It is be- cause the expansion of the supply of media images complexes the creation of interior images from the moment when the pre- vious become barriers or modeling images (ROSA, 2012). Let us return to the expression “Muslim”: although our experience or knowledge of the culture of Muslim people is brief, the risk to the stereotype is broad, as there is a range of images that rein- force this idea, even when it should be positive. In the case of the children’s football team that was trapped in a cave in Thailand