Networks, Society, and Polis: Epistemological Approaches on Mediatization

191 When the eyes do not blink nor stop: from the operation- image to the rise to the flow Ana Paula da Rosa 1 Abstract: This work seeks to investigate the process of cir- culation of images. Thus, we adopt, as our starting point, two central aspects: 1) the changes in the conditions of circulation and circularity of social discourses from the access allowed by the web; and 2) the complexification of the communica- tional process per se, since the social actors rise to the media, also interfering in their logics, particularly the journalistic ones. To comprehend how the strategies of fixing images take place, this article analyses the episode of the circulation of audiovisual materials about a bombing that decimated hun- dreds of people in Syria. The attack occurred in 2018, near the Syrian capital, Damascus. Images of the rescue of children among the debris went worldwide and were broadly inserted in national and international journalistic dispositifs. This ar- ticle proposes to discuss the following question: what images are in dispute? And if this is a dispute of meaning, which log- ics are perceptible in the actions of these actors? As an initial proposition, we identified images at stake that we opted to consider, in this work, as operation images. Keywords: Mediatization. Image. Circulation. Syria Understanding the communicational process today passes, inevitably, through the notion of circulation. It is not a 1 Ana P aula da Rosa is a pro fessor and researcher at the Graduate Program in Comm unication Sciences at Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos – UNISINOS. E-mail: anaros@unisinos.br