Networks, Society, and Polis: Epistemological Approaches on Mediatization

Wilson Gomes 20 placing it diachronically over different phases. In his theoretical reconstruction of journalism, Fausto Neto talks about the jour - nalistic practice that, in some way, renounces the pretensions of mediating discursively, with all the complexity that this entails, between facts and audiences, to assume a new type of interaction in which the discursive fabric and the engendering of the mean- ings no longer crystallizes in just one place (the newsroom, the newspaper page, the VT) and moment, but they involve different agents and agencies, synchronous and asynchronous, without linear and rigid chronology, and with distinct levels of effect. Ana Paula da Rosa addresses the process of circulation of images and the logics that supports their significance through one of the triadic typology proposed by her: synthesis images, residue images, and circuit images. Rosa’s central concern is the images that flood digital environments, in their various formats and on their most diverse platforms. A concern also shared by Mario Carlón, whose contribution examines a specific case of the political use of images in publications on social media platforms for the political dispute in Argentina, including here the forgery, appropriation, manipulation, and reactions to all of this. Carlón uses the case to extract consequences and conceptual challenges for an approach to images in circulation in digital environments from the perspective of media studies Ilya Kiriya, as I said, brings an exciting chapter on the industrialization of culture, in a political economy approach to communication. He examines the creative industries and the in- dustrialization of education. While Magali Cunha makes a car- tography, the most complete I know, about the mediatization of Evangelical political activism, which should in no way be con- fused with the mediatization of religion. It shows how leaders and religious activists have recently worked to occupy the digi- tal public sphere, dominating their resources and logics, to dis- pute interpretations and promote their framing of social prob- lems and political facts. In the two chapters on the spearhead of digital com- munication, José Luiz Braga suggests thought-provoking meth- odological questions for a consistent and fruitful approach to communication-based on digital networks, media, and environ- ments, while consistent with the premises of the idea of mediati-