Networks, Society, and Polis: Epistemological Approaches on Mediatization

Ada C. Machado da Silveira 182 national territory is located there and that, in addition to the ex- traordinary character of its continental expressiveness, it occurs in a situation of confluence and conurbation. The strong pres - ence of connecting cities and trans-frontier agglomerations with ten other South American nation-States (BRAZIL, 2005) config - ure relations that collaborate for the complexity of the so-called frontier regime. There, the media system present constitutes it- self an irreducible node to political-military logics and requires its particular dimension of analysis 6 . So, when it comes to coverage of the CUT BRA-PY-AR, I understand that it is possible to observe, schematically, four moments. Initially, it is possible to conceive a localized coverage, acting with parameters proper of the proximity media, which gradually gains connotations that frame the events with the dra- ma of the globalized impact. From the recontextualization per- formed by the local media logic, the mediatization process is on route to decontextualization (Figure 2). A Moment 1 in which the local media, or proximity (Date 1), deals with daily life based on values from the local cul- tural and public sphere and which, as a rule, are hierarchically subordinated to the values of the reference media aligned with the national political and cultural sphere (SILVEIRA, 2012). It is a moment in which the operation of discursive exteriority acts smoothly. Figure 2 – The moments of coverage and the increase of mediatization Source: The author 6 I understand that the theme has evolved since Steiman and Machado (2002) identified the lack of studies on frontiers. However, the media approach present in the referred studies (BRASIL, 2005) seems to stiffen a conflicting reading of the relations resulting from the intensification of globalized flows.