De mediações em mediações: a questão da tecnicidade em Martín-Barbero

Abstract

In this article, we will analyze the epistemological turn proposed by Martín-Barbero when he shifted his attention from the cultural mediations of the communication to the communicative mediations of the culture. The main focus of the analysis will be on the importance that the notion of technicality – alongside institutionality, sociality, and rituality – had in this epistemological turn. His notion of technicality will be put in the discussion here by some studies on new media and materiality of communication.