Publication details
Informační násilí a mýtus interaktivity : Proč nová média nepřináší demokracii
| Title in English | Information violence and the myth of interactivity : why new media do not mean democracy |
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| Year of publication | 2012 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Budúcnosť médií |
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| Field | Mass media, audiovision |
| Keywords | cybercluture; democracy; Internet; symmetry; speech; interactivity; transhumanism; information society |
| Description | This theoretical study examines the myth of cyberculture being democratic. Author adapts the Philippe Breton's concept of democracy as a symmetric speech act, and seeks for this symmetry within the internet, taking notice of the men's situation in particular, democratic divide and interactivity. The man as a central category of democracy stands opposed to technodeterminism and tries to revaluate the question of man's meaning as opposed to the utopian transhumanism. Besides the discourse of utopian, dystopian and social sciences, men's situation in the information society is viewed on the basis of his hermeneutics. |