Review article
Cybersociality: The End of Man (Like Zoon Politikon)?
Fulvio Šuran
orcid.org/0000-0001-9702-6271
; Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, Croatia
Abstract
In the debate about the spread of new technologies of online communication, we often find extreme points of view about the effect they have on people: the “techno-pessimists” prophesy an obscure era in which the surfers, reduced to a total physical immobility, will end up by “disconnecting” themselves from the world; on the other hand, the “techno-optimists” theorize that an on-line life could become almost self-efficient, taking away the weight of reality from people. We still tend to think of the cyberspace dynamics from a “cybernetic” point of view, by concentrating more on the tools than on the true dynamics of interaction that bring new forms of “cybersociality”. It is a co-evolution between real and virtual, physical space and cyberspace, that could be interpreted like a “middle path”. At the root of these new collective realities there is always the human element and shared social passions.
Keywords
cybersociality; cyberculture; cyberspace; social network; machines; internet; virtual reality; new technologies; community; sociality
Hrčak ID:
151807
URI
Publication date:
1.5.2015.
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