Networks, Society, and Polis: Epistemological Approaches on Mediatization

Circulation and transformations of journalistic discourses 111 systemic practices, mixing around processes and couplings that are dynamized throughout complex retroactions and feedbacks. The event results, in this case, from multiple interventions, log- ics, and rationalities that are mixed with the injunctions of sys - tems and their socio-media practices, operated through “sys- temic-mediation” mediators. The event takes place in circulation. It is enunciated in dynamics of socio-discursive practices that are engendered and disseminated by circulatory activity, which, in turn, is not smooth, but consists of inputs of logics and grammar, rules, discourses from different institutions and wisdom. The event results from the difference in the relationship between interac- tional dynamics, cultures of systemic couplings, discursive con- structions, interpenetrations, and their effects. The theme of the effects returns on the conclusion of this text. It is impossible not to approach it in the face of a com- municational scenario inwhichwe observe that the interchange- ability of meanings is manifested and disputed in rhythms of struggles and inevitable differences, in terms of meanings. The effects return, this time around a new problem, that of com- plex retroactions, and not those conceived in terms of regula- tory mechanisms, as predicted by functionalist systemic think- ers. We realize that the interactional processes that constitute the ambiance of mediatization point to structural and qualita- tive transformations that involve fields, new circuits, and the nature of transformations in the journalists’ mediating activity. We emphasize the issue of discontinuities, as the effects of inter- penetrations between systems, which are often not capturable because they escape the causal logics through which couplings are operated within systems. Discontinuities could be attributed to the effects of discursive processes that clearly could not be contemplated, as it is unknown what would happen in circuits whose production of meanings would still be underway. From such lags, new observational journalistic pro - cesses emerge, as mediation activities that enable the exter- nalization of meanings that, until then, remained retained at the boundaries of shadow zones , prevented from being sent to contact zones. The observation processes whose contents The Intercept brings to the fore, through its operations, bring into