Original scientific paper

The Future of Media: Media and Death

Divna Vuksanović orcid.org/0000-0002-2288-0796 ; Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Belgrade, Serbia

Abstract

The text deals with the problem of the future of media, starting from the standpoint of the idea of death of the media and the end of media culture we know it today. At first the topic of death represented in the media treats death as the basis for the creation of numerous media concepts, in order to focus research, then, with the presentation of the death scene in the media, gradually shifted and focused on the so-called posthumous communication. In parallel with the process of transforming their media content redirection on the theme of death and communication with the worlds of the dead - which proved to be profitable - some media theorists, such as Virilio, for example, suggest the collapse of media images, as well as the consequences of keeping global information war. It would also mean, the possibility of a new beginning of media and a very different, a new media paradigm. At the same time, we are not talking about replacement of old and so-called “Primitive” new media, but about a significant transformation. The media, in fact, upon our opinion, do not die in terms of their final death, but change in the dimension of existence, which is somewhere “in between”, on the border of life and death. This transformation of the media, from the dimensions of life to death and back (into the future), analogically meant, the most similar to the Buddhist concept and phenomenon of “Bardo”.

Keywords

the future of media; media death; posthumous communication; outdated and new media; bardo

Hrčak ID:

152048

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/152048

Publication date:

1.12.2015.

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