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

Image in circulation: shattering of the gaze and memory 189 comes from another place, from the expression “a good bandit is a dead bandit,” which historically has been fixed in the collective and social imaginary. It shows that, in this situation, there is an operation to produce strained images that try to question the place of the first one, which disappears from circulation. In the absence of an image of the fact, there is an attempt, on the part of the family, classmates, and non-media institutions, to activate mediatiza- tion logics to circulate a counter-image to face the images that journalism, critics, and social actors build on a discourse that comes from another place, from the expression “a good bandit is a dead bandit,” which historically has been fixed in the col - lective and social imaginary. In this attempt at a counter-image, the symbolic image of the non-body appears. It is the image of the school uniform shirt, stained with blood, which becomes a flag and manifesto, and, from this moment on, journalism itself reviews its arguments, guided by the commotion of the mother who loses her son. Figures 07 - Media coverage of the adolescent’s funeral Retrieved from: Domingos Peixoto/O Globo.