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

Ana Paula da Rosa 194 MORTENSEN, 2015. It is because mediatization sets in motion new dynamics that are founded and updated, including those re- lated to human storytelling. In other words, our ways of narrating are no longer the same. Technologies and apparatuses cross and interfere in these processes, including the possibility of excluding a narrative made. On the other hand, there are more voices, more space for counter-discourses, subversions, and attempts. Hjarvard and Mortensen (2015) argue that, nowadays, mediatized conflicts are no longer just mediated and involve dy - namics generally of three orders: amplification, framing and per - formance agency, and co-structuring. These dynamics are at the core of mediatized conflicts, but currently, they are manifested in combined and complex ways to varying degrees. One of these complexifications, for example, is the infiltration of the media within conflicts, as occurred in Gaza or new forms of embedding, a practice already adopted in the Gulf War, for example. The au- thors also indicate the presence of social actors at the scene as new dynamics or updates, producing narratives about conflicts, going beyond what was known as a “police/Army-media” inter- action model. In other words, both in wars, like in Syria, or against trafficking, at Complexo da Maré, the dynamics of mediatiza- tion are such that they do not circumscribe circulation to the territorial space of what is apparently in dispute, including because the dispute is rarely about the physical good, but the immaterial, since it is about power. Thus, if conflicts leak, they concern much more with the imaginary than the materialized. In summary, in the conflicts of polarization and incivility that we investigated, their dynamics is constituted by operations of making visible/erasing; valuing/excluding, putting into cir- culation/repeating; fixing/restricting, and, thus, it is not the plan of practical actions, but of mediatization of imaginary that is weaved between the life that does not deserve to live and the life that does not deserve to be seen. Recovering Mbembe (2018, p. 309), the black reason does not concern the black per se, but a black becoming of the world, where the only form of combat is “a thinking in circulation, a thinking of crossings, a world-thinking.” We are left with the invitation to start travers- ing and thinking together.