Networks, Society, and Polis: Epistemological Approaches on Mediatization

Antonio Fausto Neto 110 This attempt to unravel is not autonomous, as it goes through several mediation protocols. The ‘rescue’ of reality would imply making use of observation processes, whose paths show and complex the non-autonomy of journalism and its me - diators, particularly its dependence on co-announcements. Its work would be subordinated to bundles of relationships, and, under these conditions, it would operate in tacit connection with multiple dimensions of the circulatory processes of meanings. Subsequent complexities would cause journalists to deal with a new scenario in which they would see that realities of relations and borders between different social systems would start to constitute new beacons of their act. Rationalities of these systemic articulations would affect the conditions of enuncia- tion of the journalistic act. The tentative work of ‘rescue’ of the ‘primary scene’ would be permeated by the interweaving of its dynamics, and everything suggests that their effects would only allow the construction of possible worlds . The journalistic act becomes increasingly complex in the face of the ongoing mediatization process, as this brings about the emergence of new techno-media protocols, shared with institutions and social actors, resulting in the emergence of other circuits of contacts and manifestations. The production of events moves from production niches, enters circulation territo- ries, escapes the internal protocol of the journalistic system, and is shared by a variety of systemic-institutional matrices now. The access revolution promoted by the inflection of technologi - cal processes raises possibilities for an enunciative model cen- tered on I alone , a circumstance in which the individual, despite the others, would be able to invent interactive processes. Some- how, the uniqueness is removed from the journalism system and its actors’ work, pointing out that there are other processes in progress, and that they pass into the hands of other universes. These would be times of dissolution of the intermediate struc- tures in which mediating practices would also be affected by the existence of interactional rituals driven by new socio-technical arrangements that give rise to two communicational scenarios: the first, constituted by the actions of individuals, driven by the so-called new technologies that cause to emerge determined techno-media architectures. And a second scenario consisting of