Technoscience on the Screen: Mediatized Controversies and Distrust in the Pandemic

This contribution aims to frame the renewed status of technoscience especially in the pandemic context, drawing from the intersection between datification and mediatization processes and looking at how controversies and distrust expand, affecting both scientific and lay knowledge. Digital media play a crucial role into all this through the visual format and various shortcuts they encourage and support. . Both data and science (namely, scientists) are gobbled up by the logic of mediatization and mediatized controversy, which configure a new media primacy in the pandemic world.