Networks, Society, and Polis: Epistemological Approaches on Mediatization

Mediatization, polis, and frontier events: analysis of the newsworthiness about the CUT BRA-PY-AR 169 II – Mediatization and newsworthiness of the periphery The mediatization approach considers a variety of per- spectives. Luis Mauro SáMartino (2019), intending to systematize its characteristics, proposes that the intertwining between media and social practices characterizes themediatization process while facing a tension “between actions, uses, and meanings between social practices and the media environment” (MARTINO, 2019, p. 27). His interpretation refers to the scope of the articulation as proper to investigations in the mediatization, prominently in the perspective pointed out by Andreas Hepp (2014), given that me- dia environment should be the place of technique, while the social practices should be objects more related to Social Sciences. Therefore, it is on deepening the perspective of such articulation that I try to recognize, in the mediatization of the periphery, a particular practice that involves the notion of news- worthiness and the favorable conditions for the media envi- ronment to identify an innovative process, with radical conse- quences. These are aspects considered from what Niklas Luh- mann (2000) pointed out about the condition in which, more and more, we know reality from notions arising from the news; the author inquiries about the consequences of such an attitude, especially when we know how they are produced. In another way, I recall Luis Alberto de Carvalho and Gustavo Lage (2012) when they find, in the characteristic of re - flexivity, a condition of mediatization, given that the first allows us to understand the mediatization processes as articulated to new socio-technical potentialities, through the critical apprehension in circularity, in which the media read their audiences, deciphering them to better offer products and processes to them, but also negotiating meanings with them. At the same time, media products and processes are also read by these same audiences, which can modify some of their social interaction dynamics, articulating actions that cause changes in the media and in the ways of life in society (CARVALHO; LAGE, 2012, p. 264).