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

Lucrécia D´Alessio Ferrara 268 tible to evolutionary propagation as information. Therefore, the technology of instruments differs from the symbolic informa- tion that propagates to the extent that it constitutes the specific sphere of man’s creation. Two consequences of technology that make it significantly different. Thus, there are two dimensions of technology that, while propagating information, must be considered in their dif- ferences: the technology that develops while new types of devic- es get created, often obeying the economic logic of the market, and the technology that propagates because it is symbolic, and constitutes different environments, exchanges information with its constituents, which present social, communicative, cultural, economic, and political dimensions that affect humans in all their complexity, as living, interactive beings. The mediatization, which we are interested in studying, is directly connected to the second dimension. 2. The mediatization of language From the productive, economic, and financial process - es of globalization, it is necessary to note that the global techno- logical network provided by the digital is a base characteristic of productive modernity, but not enough to absorb all the com- plexity of symbolic exchanges that are also operated by the same digital technology. To say that everything is information and ex- change is not enough to create a new economy. On the one hand, there is the Network, which acceler- ates the circulation and profitability of capital, and on the other, the Network, which creates value and wealth itself. Contrary to common belief, there is no direct link between the two: the problem of cre- ation of value, thus, of the link between informa- tion and production, which has always been at the heart of the economy, is not in fact regulated. Then, for man to understand each other better it is not enough that they exchange a lot of informa-