Networks, Society, and Polis: Epistemological Approaches on Mediatization

Mario Carlón 230 P(D) D R (D) 0 For our purposes here, it is enough to express that, in the graph, two instances are open, production and recognition. A discourse (D) has production conditions (PD) and recognition conditions (RD). Circulation is, for Verón, the difference between production and recognition, and, therefore, it is not linear. Thus, it is not possible to know the effects of discourse in recognition, only from an analysis in production. The analysis in recognition is accomplished on new discourses that must necessarily be enunciated in a later instance. The graph that we present in the next item is based on Verón’s, but also on the one of contempo- rary mediatization that we previously saw. As there are two me- dia systems, circulation can be downward (“top-down”), upward (“bottom-up”), or horizontal (peer-to-peer in the mass media or social media system). VI – Circulation: hypermedia ‘semiotic guerilla ’ and overflowing circulation I now return to the case we are analyzing. Given its complexity, which generated intense activity for a week on so- cial networks and in the mass media, and the fact that more than two years have passed since it happened, which makes it hard to reconstruct circulation entirely, the graph presented below of- fers an approximation. It is a “minimal graph” since we know that many other processes happened: we focus, first of all, on the direct responses of the programs alluded to in the CFK’s post