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This article, stemming from two doctoral theses, aims to comprehend the influence of the family, work, and religion institutions in the identification of preferential meanings--frames that readers employ to connect with a message--in the reception of journalistic narratives. Drawing from biographical fragments--memories triggered during in-depth interviews--gathered through a common life history question in both theses, the relevance of these three institutions in the daily lives of 34 participants is discussed. The results indicate that these reference communities are identified in life stories through: a) spontaneous association; b) stimulated association; c) spontaneous dissociation; and d) stimulated dissociation. Through these analytical categories, it possible to identify the foundations of cultural mediations, dimensions in which meanings originate and are shaped through media consumption. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main objective of this paper is discussing the transformations in the formation of opinions from the algorithmic mediations present in digital platforms. With the intention of not abandoning social issues, and analyzing meanings and technologies separately, the results presented were built from a study of reception of a sociocultural matrix with eight unionized teachers and eight neo-Pentecostal evangelicals residing in Curitiba (PR). There is a market logic that governs power maintenance in the platforms, while its filters determine what will be consumed and ignored. However, the structuring dimensions -- church, family, work, etc. -- remain relevant in the formation of opinions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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]