Networks, Society, and Polis: Epistemological Approaches on Mediatization

Antonio Fausto Neto 106 the montages made originally by the researchers responsible for the extraction of the materials, underwent editing processes by media reports, whose devices already were connected to the MPF’s communication services. It should be remembered that routine contacts between the media and the legal system had already been established through complex media coverage that was given to “Operation Lava-Jato”. In this case, the media con- struction did not receive any guidance/restrictions from the judge on the use of materials, as the preconditions were ready for its dissemination. The event gains several forums, including the “court” of social networks. 3rd record (2019): The event arises from circuits and dynamics of circulation processes that branch into formats whose origins and construction processes are not known, in terms of systemic origins. Messages arrive at The Intercept website, in the form of a recording that reports the contents of conversations between authorities in charge of “Operation Lava-Jato”. Contents of these recordings are put into circulation by The Intercept, transformed into an event, gaining diverse cir- cuits throughout practically the entire second half of 2019. The formal circuit consists of The Intercept itself, Folha de S. Paulo, and Veja magazine, which formally joined the journalistic web - site in the process of broadcasting the contents of the captured recordings. However, its dissemination expands in several me- dia and other institutions, in the form of “quoted speech.” The event is dealt with in a complex way in the extensive journalistic coverage timetable – blogs and websites, the agenda of institu- tions in various social fields, as well as within the scope of public conversation. According to these three registers, different expedients, involving technologies and editorial processes, try to generate couplings between various systems which are in charge of the genesis, management, and production of the event, according to reciprocating interpenetration processes in their discourse coupling practices. These, when dissolved and re-enunciated by/at the borders of specific fields, gain, through technical op- erations, amplitudes within the scope of different circuits. The interpenetrations between the diverse social practices – of me- dia and various natures, are made through heterogeneous enun-