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

Hypotheses about polarization, mediatization, and algorithms 309 the system to react to unexpected situations; • Sta- bility - not all environmental variations should af- fect an agent’s behavior; • Adaptability - capacity to adapt to environmental variations. Two main lines of research that emerge from these proper- ties can be seen in swarm intelligence: it works inspired by the study of the behavior of social insects, such as ants, bees, termites, and wasps (SERAPIÃO, 2009, p. 271-272). The richness of this text is in presenting each “family” of algorithms according to assumptions that we can characterize from animal anthropology. The study of animal behavior trans- forms into a system capable of algorithmic language. Thus, she cites the experimental research with real ants, in which observes their behavior in collecting animals in the laboratory: An ant nest was placed in an aquarium with a food source at the other point. To get to this food, two paths were created, one longer than the other. Initially, each ant followed a random explorato- ry path. As the ants that chose the shortest path made the route faster than the others, they depos- ited a higher amount of pheromone in this path compared to the other in the same interval of time. Therefore, at a particular moment, the intensity of the pheromone in the shortest path was so high that almost all ants followed it (SERAPIÃO, 2009, p. 273). Another interesting reference is the study on the be- havior of bacteria modeled for the construction of algorithms. It is the Bacterial Foraging Optimization (BFO): This algorithmwas based on strategies for locating, manipulating, and ingesting food from cells of the bacterium Escherichia Coli, as this bacterium is one of the most well-known organisms today. Bacteria tend to migrate to nutrient-rich areas using a mech- anism called chemotaxis. It is known that the bac- terium swims in the liquid medium by rotating the flagella, guided by a reversible propellant embed -