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

Hypotheses about polarization, mediatization, and algorithms 329 gree in Neolatine Letters from Pontifícia Universidade Cat lica de São Paulo (1959), a doctorate in Brazilian Literature from Pontifícia Universidade Cat lica de S o Paulo (1964), and she has a teaching degree from the Faculty of Architecture and Ur- banism at USP. She is an emeritus professor at PUC-SP and a retired professor at USP (Faculty of Architecture and Urban- ism). She is the leader of the Space-Visuality/Communication- Culture Research Group (ESPACC) certified by the Research Committee from PUC-SP and Diretório dos Grupos Nacionais de Pesquisa. She has experience in the field of Communica- tion, with an emphasis on Communication Theory, working mainly on the following themes: communication epistemology, culture, semiotic s, architecture, and design. Full professor at Pontifícia Univer sidade Cat lica de S o Paulo and a CNPq R e - searcher. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4727-9817. E- mail: ldferrara@ hotmail.com José Luiz Braga Full professor and researcher at the Graduate Program in Com- munication at UNISINOS (RS) since 1999, having coordinated the Program from 2002 to 2004. He is a CNPq Researcher 1A. He holds a Ph.D. in Communication from Université de Paris II, Institut Français de Presse (1984) and a masters’ degree in Education from Florida State University. He was a researcher in Educational TV at Instituto de Pesquisas Espaciais (Saci Project). He was a professor in the Communication Depart- ment at Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB, 1978-87) and Universidade de Brasília (UnB, 1987-99), having been, in the latter, Director of the Faculty of Communication. He was President of COMPÓS (Associação Nacional dos Programas de Pós-Graduação em Comunicação) in the 1993-95 term. He is the author of A sociedade enfrenta sua mídia: dispositivos so- ciais de crítica midiática (São Paulo: Paulus, 2006) and other academic books and articles in the area of ​communication. He works mainly in the following areas of interest: research methods in communication; media criticism; mediatization. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3742-1119. E-mail: bragawarren@gmail.com