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

321 Authors Andreas Hepp Professor of Media and Communications and Head of ZeMKI, Cen- tre for Media, Communication and Information Research, Univer- sity of Bremen, Germany. He was Visiting Researcher and Profes- sor at leading institutions such as the London School of Economics and Political Science, Goldsmiths University of London, Université Paris II Panthéon ASSAS, Stanford University and others. He is the author of 12 monographs including The Mediated Construction of Reality (with Nick Couldry 2017), Transcultural Communica- tion (2015), and Cultures of Mediatization (2013). His latest book is Deep Mediatization (2020). ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000- 0001-7292-4147, Email: ahepp@uni-bremen.de Luís Mauro Sá Martino Graduated in Communication from Faculdade Cásper Líbero (1998), with Master’s (2001) and Doctorate (2004) in Social Sciences from PUC-SP. He was a research fellow at the School of Political, Social, and International Studies at the University of East Anglia, England (2008-2009). Professor of PPG in Commu- nication at Cásper Líbero, where he teaches in the Graduation in Journalism and is co-editor of Revista Líbero. He was Coor- dinator of the WG Epistemology of Communication, at Compós (2015-2016), and he is a member of the board of reviewers of the journals Galáxia (PUC-SP) and Comunicação, Mídia e Con- sumo (ESPM), among others. He is the author of the books Ética, Mídia e Comunicação (Summus, 2018), Métodos de Pesquisa em Comunicação (Vozes, 2018), Teoria das Mídias Digitais (Vozes, 2014), Mídia, Religião e Sociedade (Paulus, 2016), The Me- diatization of Religion (Routledge, 2016), Teoria da Comunica- ção (Vozes, 2009) e Comunicação e Identidade (Paulus, 2010), among others. His research is directed, on the one hand, to stud-