Between humans and machines

mediatization, artificial intelligence, and platformization

Authors

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4013/qt.2025.132407%20

Keywords:

artificial intelligence, mediatization, platformization

Abstract

This article presents a metatheoretical analysis of how artificial intelligence and platform algorithms reconfigure meaning-making and the circulation of knowledge in a mediatized society. Drawing on authors such as Ferrara, Braga, Gillespie, Luhmann, and Fourcade, it argues that algorithms act as symbolic and classificatory devices shaping visibility, relevance, and regimes of truth in digital environments. The discussion also addresses the limits of communication with non-human systems, the effects of algorithmic rationality on meaning production, and the tensions between technical predictability and communicational invention. In conclusion, it suggests that recognizing these tensions offers a way to critically understand the impact of AI on contemporary communication.

Author Biographies

Jullena Normando, Universidade Federal de Goiás

Publicitária, Doutoranda em Comunicação na Universidade Federal de Goiás.

Luiz Signates , Universidade Federal de Goiás; Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás

Professor associado III da Universidade Federal de Goiás, junto ao Mestrado/Doutorado em Comunicação, na linha Mídia e Cidadania e docente efetivo do Mestrado/Doutorado em Ciências da Religião, na linha Cultura e Sistemas Simbólicos, da Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás. 

Published

2025-12-27

How to Cite

NORMANDO, J.; SIGNATES , L. Between humans and machines: mediatization, artificial intelligence, and platformization . Questões Transversais, São Leopoldo, Brasil, v. 13, n. 1, 2025. DOI: 10.4013/qt.2025.132407 . Disponível em: https://revistas.unisinos.br/index.php/questoes/article/view/29011. Acesso em: 28 dec. 2025.

Issue

Section

Dossiê Midiatização, Semiose e Comunicação: Mutações Globais