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This paper deals with the reconfigurations of Noelle-Neumann's (2010) original theory and presents an analysis categorization for the contemporary spiral of silence, which involves four mechanisms: 1) accumulation; 2) consonance; 3) ubiquity; and 4) anonymity. In order to avoid excluding the term social and analyzing meanings and technologies separately, the results in this paper were presented from a sociocultural matrix reception study with eight unionized teachers and eight neo-Pentecostal evangelicals residing in the city of Curitiba (PR). Once determining that algorithms are relevant towards defining new cultural patterns of social interaction, we found the need to investigate consolidated theories in the field of communication and journalism in the light of algorithmic mediations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]