Antônio Fausto Neto 192 sphere of the discursive interpenetration of different systems (Fausto Neto, 2016b). There is a change in the communicational paradigm, since new patterns of interactions emerge between media systems and broader social systems, as well as their relations with socio-individual systems. Instead of convergences raised by interactions that took into account only the injunctions of a certain system over another, it is observed that the exchange between systems takes place around intertwinings woven in the dynamics of circula- tion. These are generators of complexities, as they express the nature of scenarios and practices of interpenetration, as indicat- ed by observations on the practices of production of meanings in the context of ongoing mediatization. On the “soil” of mediatization (Fausto Neto, 2015), new circulatory dynamics involving discursive intertwining between different systems – media, legal, health, political, religious, scientific, etc. – are developed and operate. The presence of media logics and operations in several events in Brazil in recent years is possible to perceive, such as the media coverage of the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff and the interrogations of President Lula in the context of the Lava Jato investigations (Fausto Neto, 2016c; 2017a). Discourses of several natures are transformed by the dynamics of circulation. More specific evidence can be found throughout 2020, the scenario of the spread of the coronavirus in Brazil. Regarding this theme, we examine, in a set of texts (Fausto Neto, 2020a; 2020b), the processes of circulation of meanings of the virus in the context of discourses enunciated by the health, political, judiciary, and media systems. We specially analyzed the levels of articulations, cou- plings, and discursive entanglements that gave rise to meaning disputes. To this end, we started from three subsets of texts contemplating aspects of the occurrence of COVID-19 in Brazil: the negative discourse of the president of the Republic about the disease, the media-journalistic coverage as a kind of “COV- ID analysis”; and the educational-instructional social discourse on the virus, directed at different social systems (Fausto Neto, 2020a; 2020b).
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