11 (Epistemological and methodological) narratives and passages of mediatization Jairo Ferreira This book is made in major transitions of the Seminar on Mediatization project. It is the result of a Seminar held at the POSCOM UFSM, after having been carried out, for four editions, at the PPGCC UNISINOS. This transition was built by several ac- tors (consolidated researchers, young researchers, and dozens of researchers in training), teaching and research institutions (especially UFSM and Unisinos), including the generosity of the research agencies involved (Capes, Fapergs, and CNPq) in adjusting processes, authorizations, and resources to the new cir- cumstances. Actors in collectives with their autopoietic ways of softening being, illuminating the desire to forge the common in the construction of knowledge, adding to memory strong pinch- es that it is worthwhile. In particular, it would be impossible without the empathy, welcome, and engagement of the professors of POSCOM- UFSM, especially the co-editors Ada Machado da Silveira, Aline Dalmolin, and Viviane Borelli, the coordinator of the PPG, Liliane Dutra Brignol, and other professors who received the project with affection, with the marks of shared origins in an academic and cultural path in Rio Grande do Sul. A moment that deserves narratives that situate, in times and spaces, the strong interac- tions, which have saved decades-long epistemological and meth- odological investments in the production of knowledge, of this line of research entitled Mediatization and Social Processes. Recognition to the solidary, students and professors from Unisi- nos who continued to bet on the project, “in spite of you”, in particular those who did not allow silence to be dominated by uncertainty, who engaged in the “this will pass.” To the research-
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