Networks, Society, and Polis: Epistemological Approaches on Mediatization

Circulation and transformations of journalistic discourses 99 other fields. In the past, in the context of media discourse, they saw the possibility of taking them as loans aiming at the circula- tion of events related to their strategies for producing meanings. Currently, we observe that one of the possibilities that the fields find to support the correspondence of media discourses occurs through the appropriation of the “significant practices” of the me - dia. However, it is no longer a “loan” but appropriation that, now, is integrated into the culture of the appropriating field, especially by its experts. It is not a question of coexistence of co-announce- ments from different fields but submission of the fundamentals of an “episteme” determined to that of a media nature. Thanks to the transformation of the social organization into an ambiance made up of media, logics, and media operations, dimensions of media culture already go beyond the circumstance of “conditions of production” to discursive strategies in different fields. Various institutional practices are presented through media operations as a recognition password . For example, police investigations mix their procedures with those that emanate from the logics of the media. And its ac- tors, as delegates in charge of investigations, make direct use of media skills and competences to engender events, whose utter- ance, however, is increasingly done on the sidelines of the direct responsibility of journalists. Both the process of fact-finding and the production and circulation of materials were no longer pro- duced by journalists, who have been transformed into recipients of guidelines and disseminators of materials generated directly by police staff (FAUSTO NETO, 2007). These are seminal procedures that are later complexed by the interpenetrating activity of different social systems. Jour- nalists covering topics related to the “Lava-Jato” operation re- ceive direct assistance from specialized advisors of the legal staff, whose support is considered essential in the editing of articles concerning the investigation. At the same time, experts in the legal field carry out intensive media training courses to master the logics and operations of media production to be taken as references for mediatizing their activities. Also, due to the “access revolution” that the internet is producing in the con- stitution and functioning of the mediatized environment, field agents and social actors acquire media “literacy” in such a way