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

Polarization as a structure of intolerance (a communicational issue) 289 lates them; and, therefore, the adjustment between them will depend on the inferential processes at work in the circumstance. The game between shared aspects and the inferential work historically produces interactional dispositifs , pragmatical- ly organized by the society. The concept of dispositifs , by Michel Foucault, is adapted to serve the communicational perspective (BRAGA, 2018, p. 89) as a process according to which codes and inferences are elaborated. 3. The polarizing structure The polarization processes are shown as a communica- tional issue insofar as they derive from differences constructed between human beings in coexistence and generate risks for the interaction work. It is important to understand the conditions and characteristics of its disruptive occurrence. From a praxi- ological perspective, this knowledge is central to the effort to correct course, when the risk presents itself, or to face an effec- tive disruption. The phenomenon of polarization should not be con- fused with the simple debate of opposing positions, even if vehement. In polarization, there is no debate, or it leads to dis- connection and symbolic violence - which, depending on the cir- cumstances, can lead to physical violence. A characteristic of polarization is evident in the very choice of the word to refer to the phenomenon. Faced with an urgency, a problem to be faced, in which there is a divergence of perspectives between participants - whether to characterize what the issue is, to define the objectives of the confrontation, or even to develop strategies - the positions are organized in a binary way. In any contemporary situation, we live by triggering multiple codes - related to knowledge and practices common to a significant number of participants in a culture, and which serve as the basis for a whole variety of actions, harmonic or strained. Each specialized sector, although a preferred user of determined and specific interactional dispositifs, recognizes other dispositifs present in the culture - and perceives the mul-