Review article

Electronic Media and Critical Thinking

Veljko Žvan orcid.org/0000-0003-2532-2383 ; Faculty of Architecture, University of Zagreb, Design study

Abstract

The development of civilization is in a specific way indivisible from the development of media as a means of communication through technology. This development has always depended on previous achievements as well as on societal relations and newly created human needs. After print, which helped create parliamentary democracy, civil society and the free individual, electronic media have completely occupied the realm of communication in developed societies. To understand its nature, we have to understand the context in which this phenomenon has occurred and developed. This is highly developed liberal capitalism, which, by the power of its “invisible hand”, regulates relations between human beings, turning them into addicts, primarily dependent on visual media, but also on all other constant, immediately available stimuli.

Keywords

printed media; electronic media; critical thinking; images; liberal capitalism; technology; market

Hrčak ID:

225458

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/225458

Publication date:

10.9.2019.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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