Sociedade e digitalização: os novos meios da comunicação na política e no direito

Abstract

Life digital mediation has become essential, and it increases the need to map social communication. However, as an explanation for the complexity that defines modernity, it is not efficient to describe "communication" as an ordinary synonym for information's transmition. It is more than that. Niklas Luhmann's Theory of Social Systems teaches that communication operations reduces the complexities while, paradoxically, expanding them. Thus, communication is something much more improbable than it seems. Due to the improbabilities of communication, media such as language, writing and the printing press emerge. However, the technological developments of our time recommend that this study focus on electronic media, speculating on the impact of their redundancies on the political and legal systems. Therefore, based on a pertinent bibliographic review, we will conclude that it is possible to understand digitalization as the universalization of the dissemination media of communication.