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

Antônio Fausto Neto 206 of policies to combat the virus in the country. Both ministers were later dismissed. 3. Mediatized social action In this multi-collaborative action exercised by inter- penetrating social practices, mediatizing practices are evidenced playing a relevant role in times of crisis, which goes beyond the health matrix, but spreads systemically in the social fabric. On the direct front of “virus exasperation,” the media became con- verging actors with health policies. The programming routines were transformed into protagonist dynamics in which journal- ists, producers, etcetera, showed the existence of the virus and its manifestations, placing actors in the health field on the media scene. Not only were their voices conveyed, but their identity, through the “place of speech”, as well as the specialists in health, nursing, patients, and operators of other practices in conver- gence with the case were recognized. The transformation of radio and television routines, etcetera resulted in new forms of public conversation in multi- institutional contexts in which the virus was “hunted” through discursive and argumentative dialogues between various fields and specialists who, perhaps, never had access to cameras and microphones and other communication modalities. Social net- works also give image and voice to the figure of different spe - cialists, and discussion circles were created, solidarity networks became channels of support, giving materiality to the founda- tions of civic journalism. Images not only reported but updated, through the intervention and pedagogical irradiation of special- ists, the fight against coronavirus. Indeed, an immense army of the populationhas not followed the guidelines to remain isolated, according to health institutions - an aspect that deserves more investigations and may be able to detect these gaps in meanings between calls for isolation and practices of refusals by the in- crease in agglomerations of people in public environments. But we cannot ignore the fact that thousands of Brazilians followed broadcasts of different natures that gave voice to different ac- tors who, according to “their knowledge”, emitted their views on