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

Ana Paula da Rosa 190 Figures 08 - Media coverage of the adolescent’s funeral Retrieved from: Mauro Pimentel (AFP) para El País . In this sense, we are faced with a set of mobilized medi- atization operations and logics that interfere in the media imagi- nary and, consequently, in recognition. At first, the image of the injured boy was put into circulation but then removed, in a kind of prohibition. Some images were banned by Facebook itself un- der the claim that they were inappropriate. However, when the work of the journalistic institutions begun, death was viewed with discredit and distrust; after all, there was a confrontation between the power of police and the power of traffickers, with the community being held hostage by the discourses elaborat- ed about themselves, on the violence suffered in the skin and symbolically on the storytelling of others about themselves. The commotion only occurs, in this case, in a second moment, when the mother enters the scene watching over the child’s body. And although some vehicles have brought the image of the coffin, it is the non-body, the T-shirt, that gives it life. As an image, as mate- riality, Marcos Vinicius does not exist, he translates into a piece of cloth.