This book results from the IV International Seminar on Research on Mediatization and Social Processes held in 2020/2021. The III International Seminar on Research on Mediatization and Social Processes had a program developed on two levels: debate panels with invited researchers (5 panels, with the participation of researchers from Sweden(2), Argentina (2), and Brazil (9, including five from PPGCC-Unisinos). The IV Seminar program and its structure are at https://www.midiaticom.org/seminario-midiatizacao/programacao-2020/. In this IV Seminar, the theme of the panels was “Mediatized Sapiens: the social construction of knowledge among interactions, means, circulation, and social mediation.” With mediatized sapiens, we want to refer to several media processes related to the mental changes of the species. Several questions can be enunciated related to these. How can we think of knowledge social construction when mediated by the media processes? To what extent does the mental experience of the species hold media processes as references to its building and inferences? How do the actors in a network participate in these processes? To what extent do institutions and organizations adapt to these new environments? In particular, how do the University, research, and scientific fields participate in this repair? Do the media in digital media, in action through expert systems and artificial intelligence, interpose themselves in these processes to the point of asking incisive and secondary questions? How do temporalities and spatiality affect the conditions of production and reception, including social practices, in the social production of knowledge? What epistemologies and methodologies can account for this new complexity amid indetermination and uncertainty zones?

This book is one of the results of the II International Seminar on Research on Mediatization and Social Processes. The II International Seminar on Research on Mediatization and Social Processes had a program developed at two levels: Debate panels, with invited researchers – five tables with the participation of researchers from Sweden (1), Russia (1), Portugal (1), Argentina (1), and Brazil (6). The schedule of the II Seminar and its structure are available at https://www.midiaticom.org/seminario-midiatizacao/grade-de-programacao-2018/. Intotal, there were 15 hours of debates at the five debate panels. This second event gave continuity to the first International Seminar on Research on Mediatization and Social Processes, which also had guest researchers. In the first seminar, the five panels were attended by researchers from France (3), Denmark (1), Argentina (2), and Brazil (4). See: http://www.midiaticom.org/seminariointernacional/programacao-2016/. Therefore, methodologically, the Seminar takes place in the articulation of debate panels with international guests and working groups, with the presence of researchers, doctors, doctoral students, Masters, and master’s degree students. We emphasize that, still in the scope of training processes, master’s and doctoral students, masters and doctors, post-doctoral students and post-doctors, and members of the organizing Research Group take part in them as reviewers, in a blind evaluation, of the expanded abstracts submitted by graduates with lower titles – under the coordination of researchers/professors of the Research Group on Mediatization and Social Processes. They evaluated (in a group of more than three dozen reviewers) each of the works submitted by colleagues with training at a lower level, with classification grades, which resulted in the approved papers. Then, they were grouped by the organizing committee, successively, until the event’s working groups were formed. A total of 237 abstracts were submitted. They were selected in the following proportion of participants: 21% of professors/researchers; 33% doctors and doctoral students; 33% masters and master’s students; 13% graduates and undergraduate students, linked to scientific initiation research project and/or with research results of a senior research project. In the first seminar, in 2016, there were 250 submissions by authors and 217 expanded abstracts. Out of these, around 188 works were selected. At both events, half of the participants were from universities in other states (São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and Minas Gerais, mainly). Among its results, in addition to the training processes in the course of its realization, we emphasize its consolidation in a library of reflections, in the form of complete articles of the presentations in Working Groups and books published in e-book format (with chapters produced by the participants of the debate panels). The expanded abstracts of the event are available at https://midiaticom.org/anais/index.php/seminario-midiatizacao-resumos. The full articles are available at https://midiaticom.org/anais/index.php/seminario-midiatizacao-artigos. This book of the Debate Panels of the II Seminar, in this e-book edition, is available not only in the project collection (https://www.midiaticom.org/e-books/) but also at FACOS UFSM (https: / /www.ufsm.br/editoras/facos/publicacoes/). We reiterate our thanks to CAPES and FAPERGS for the financial support, which is essential for to enable this proposal of conversation via research, both theoretical and empirical, carried out by its participants.

Este livro é um dos resultados do seminário realizado com Bernard Miège, no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências da Comunicação da Unisinos, institulado Enraizamento Social das TICs, numa iniciativa do Grupo de Pesquisa em Midiatização e Processos Sociais e Epistecom. O seminário se realizou no âmbito do projeto Midiatização e Tecnologias Digitais/Escola de Altos Estudos/CAPES e foi apresentado em torno dos seguintes eixos: a visão das TICs “poluída” pelas abordagens tecnodeterministas; abordagens críticas de discursos sobre TICs; as TICS entre inovação técnica e enraizamento social; o processo de mediatização no centro (da maioria) das atenções; as mutações profundas da esfera mediática. Agregaremos também a discussão sobre a convergência – um tema central, apenas referido nos diversos seminários. Este livro é um dos três que compõem a série relativa aos seminários desenvolvidos no projeto, que teve também participação de Serge Proulx e Patrice Flichy.

Este livro é um momento de passagem do processo de cooperação científica entre pesquisadores dos PPGs em Comunicação da UNISINOS, da UFG e da UFJF, em torno do tema “Epistemologia e Pesquisa em Comunicação”, iniciado em 2007. O projeto, intitulado Crítica Epistemológica, visava a reflexão sobre objetos, métodos e metodologias, disciplina e campo da comunicação. Durante cinco anos (de 2008 a 2013), professores dos três programas desenvolveram seminários e publicaram textos, em conjunto ou individualmente, estimulados pelo intercâmbio. Essa foi uma das esferas do projeto. Além da mobilidade visando as interações sobre as pesquisas em curso, desenvolvidas pelos pesquisadores, o projeto viabilizou processos formativos em nível de mestrado com intercâmbio de estudantes por um semestre; e em pós-doutoramentos. O projeto continua, pela integração da rede em projeto mais abrangente, nucleado no periódico Questões Transversais – Revista de Epistemologias da Comunicação. O projeto de intercâmbio foi viabilizado com o apoio da Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (Capes), por seu programa Programa Nacional de Cooperação Acadêmica (Procad). Ao final do livro, depois das informações sobre os autores, apresentamos o elenco das atividades e dos resultados dos cinco anos deste Projeto. O presente livro é, portanto, resultado de um extenso trabalho de reflexão e debates. Reunindo a diversidade de perspectivas dos pesquisadores participantes, estivemos todos voltados para um objetivo abrangente, que corresponde ao eixo integrador “Pensar o campo de estudos em comunicação”.

Se estudian discursos del presidente Lula sobre la crisis económica de 2008, describiéndose estrategias discursivas a través de las cuales ciertas dimensiones del discurso económico son transformadas por operaciones enunciativas para explicar la crisis. El presidente utiliza, con ese fin, operadores del lenguaje coloquial (metáforas, figuras de lenguaje) y construcciones discursivas asociadas a su biografía y al mundo de la vida de interlocutores más próximos a su experiencia lingüística y cultural. Esta modalidad discursiva busca restaurar algo que los economistas y los mercados fallaron en instaurar o erraron mucho al intentar hacerlo: la noción de confianza.