Networks, Society, and Polis: Epistemological Approaches on Mediatization

Circulation and transformations of journalistic discourses 103 of the STF: “Architecture destroys privacy among the members of the court” (José Sarney, FSP, 24/08/2009, p. 1); “Jurist-judge claims that the press invaded intimacy.” (FSP, 09/02/2007, p. 2). Columnist comments on the fact in an article, using in its title discursive constructions that are associated with the dynam- ics of circulation: “The invasion of journalism.” He stresses that “the relationship between journalism and invasion of privacy is much more complex than the intense discussion appears [...]. There is no doubt that the dialogues would be private acts. But it does not mean that they occur in privacy.” (FSP, 08/26/2007, p. 9). The journalist throws into the debate an issue which does not appear on the list of opinions on the subject, emphasizing the singularity of the observational journalistic processes in the construction of the event that is engendered in the mediatiza- tion environment and according to the dynamics of circulation: “[...]being close to whoever speaks on the phone and noticing the public interest in what is said, and report it; or listen, from outside an office, to a dialogue of public interest – are these acts of invasion of privacy or the function of journalism?” (FSP, 26.08.2007, p. 9). Such a record brings up a debate around the mediatiza- tion of institutions and their effects, particularly, drawing atten- tion to the singularity of the exercise of journalistic observation and the role of its enunciative work on the relationship between non-media and media institutions. Marks of a new circulatory activity, as well as its effects in the context of ongoing mediatization, also occur in the street demonstrations that took place in Brazil in 2013. Among them, clues about the “dissolution” of the ways of observing journalis - tic mediations, specifically its coverage of the demonstrations. We saw that these were generated according to different moti- vations but highly articulated around digital media. They func- tioned as a kind of great “cloak” in an attempt to shelter, and unify meanings in profusion... This arrangement removed other mediations exercised by institutions, according to the expres- sion of the actors on the march. They claimed that they could not be recognized in the circumstances of the march carried out, given the formation of agglomerations in which “we are all Face- book” ... The journalistic observational process also goes into a