Networks, Society, and Polis: Epistemological Approaches on Mediatization

José Luiz Braga 248 of control and regulation that previously did not exist or were unnecessary – exacerbated surveil- lance potentials, expansion of the instant statistics of individual actions and the most diversified so - cial, generation of data on a scale not directly ac- cessible to the average citizen – which, then, start to be interpreted as stimulated and directed based on such information. • The possibility of becoming an information gen- erator also expands – directly gaining the freedom to participate in the social circulation without de- pending on having its expression selected by the news producing and systematizing sectors. • Already as a problem resulting from this access and widespread initiatives, and in the absence of curator systems established at that level, a genera- tion of fake news radically different (in processes, scope, origins, and objectives) from the traditional rumor; marginal experiments; manipulation pro- cesses (social or personal) with possible twisting to the law and even to the rule of law. • These actions, when assumed as a tactic of politi- cal or economic power, can pose risks to the demo- cratic process. • The easiness to network people not related by mul- tiple patterns (which would allow for multiple bal- ancing of differences, ease tensions, and enabling flexible co- operation) favours the generation of monochord systems of relations, around one or few focus of common identity among participants, who become interaction centralizers, despising other aspects relevant however to a less conflictive social interaction. • Such focal points of identification, precisely be - cause they are exclusively articulators of partici- pants, tend to generate excessively vehement po- larizations, causing them to stand out from funda-