Rileggere la media ecology: ambiente, campo, figurazione, mediatizzazione

The article proposes a re-reading and enrichment of the approach of media ecology, which considers media as environments, through the social field concepts of Pierre Bourdieu and the figuration of Norbert Elias. The emphasis on the power dynamics activated or made visible by the media and on the processes of interaction between the elements of social networks makes the Bourdieusian approach and that of Elias particularly useful for understanding communication processes in the digital media age. Through the contextual consideration of similar concepts on a theoretical level, the very significance of media ecology can be subject to an actualization based on the revision of the metaphor of media as environments and on the enhancement of an ecological vision of mediatization.