Platforms, Algorithms and AI: issues and hypotheses in the mediatization perspective

This book is one of the results of the V International Seminar on Mediatization and Social Processes, held in 2022, at UFSM. The e-book edition of the Debate Panels from the V Seminar is available not only at the collection of the project (https://www.midiaticom.org/e-books/) but also of FACOS UFSM (http://www.ufsm.br/editoras/facos/publicacoes/). The works from the WG unfolded in two bibliographic productions, available at the OJS platform, with ISBN: a) Expanded abstracts (142): https://midiaticom.org/anais/index.php/seminario-midiatizacao-resumos/issue/view/16; b) Full articles (33): https://www.midiaticom.org/seminario-midiatizacao/anais-de-artigos-do-v-seminario/. In five editions, these publications were accessed by 102 thousand researchers and users worldwide.

In epistemological, methodological and empirical research terms, the V Seminar adds to the important collection for doctors’, masters’ and undergraduate’s research, besides serving as reference to the interlocutions of researchers involved in the research lineage in which it stands, according to what the metrics show: 166 listeners; 119 expositors in 12 working groups; 388 certificates emitted by UFSM/MIDIATICOM.

We reiterate our acknowledgment to CAPES, FAPERGS, CNPq and STINT (Sweden) for the financial aid, essential to the viability of this proposal of conversation based on the theoretical and empirical research conducted by its participants. All of this would be impossible without the endorsement of POSCOM and UFSM, and the collective work of the Organizing Committee and Midiaticom. A hug of gratitude.