ABSTRACT
The paper proposes the term "new regime of information mediation" to address the set of changes in information mediation practices that occur in digital networks. Therefore, it focuses the contrast between the forms of information mediation established in the twentieth century (and operating until the beginning of the 21th century) and the new forms of production, circulation, mediation and access to information. The main point is the change of a profile centered mediation in the figure of editors and producers to a mediation at first read as "technology" - since embodied by mathematical algorithms formulas - but which is actually conceived by engineers from major companies such as Google and Facebook, fed by information from the users of their platforms and used by companies for economic purposes and by governments in their political agendas. The conclusion is that the changes in the socio-technical structure of the current "regime of information" (as understood by authors such as Bernd Frohmann and González de Gómez), while allowing advances in several areas (education, health, public safety, consumerism, urban mobility and others), can bring deleterious effects on culture and human creativity, especially with regard to privacy and access to a diverse range of cultural, scientific and informative artefacts.
Keywords:
Regime of information; Mediation; Algorithm; Surveillance; Internet