Professional paper

INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION IN THE DAYS OF THE INFORMATION REVOLUTION

Bozena Muchacka ; Pedagogical University of Cracow, Cracow, Poland

Abstract

Modern society is often described as being information-based, mass, web-structured and globalised. Changes in human environment change man’s functioning and the character of social life. Human interactions with the environment ceased to involve just the interrelationship of external objects. Numerous researches from all branches of science point to the presence of new elements (telepathic media) and new structure of the environment (global economy, characteristic framework of social experience) which arrive at new “social quality”. Human intercommunications have undergone revolutionary change. General access to the Internet, e-mail and mobile phones constitute new techniques of communications. These modern communications solutions, combined with fast pace of life and the size of communications can on one hand stimulate human development, while on the other hand they undermine the development of personal knowledge, experience and life style. In the age of technopolisation, it seems crucial to conduct a debate on behaviour regulating mechanisms such as knowledge and wisdom, as the process of hunting just for information results in blocking the opportunities for development, reflection and reactiveness. This paper presents and discusses the above issues.

Keywords

human communication; technology; development

Hrčak ID:

21520

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/21520

Publication date:

28.9.2007.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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