Hálózottság és közösségiség. Filozófiai reflexiók az új kommunikációs technológiák közösségformáló szerepére
Networking and Community: Philosophical Reflections on the Community-Forming Role of New Communication Technologies

Summary/Abstract: The technological revolution accompanying the emergence of electronic media and the expansion of multimedia interactive networks has set a new direction for philosophical discussions on the relationship between technology and human beings. This is not only a consequence of the fact that the human–technology relationship is necessarily placed in a new light by the social and cultural consequences of the communication-technological revolution. The direction of these discussions is also influenced by the shared aspiration to create, when addressing this complex problem, the foundations of a renewed philosophical language capable of contributing to the synthesis of the conceptual and methodological apparatus of the disciplines concerned. In this article, I review philosophical and sociological reflections on the community-forming role of new communication technologies from this perspective. In this context, I wish to highlight that the impact of new communication technologies on social and community processes, as a scientific problem, simultaneously prompts contemporary authors sensitive to the issue to synthesize new scientific results and methodological considerations, and to rethink the conceptual and terminological elements of the related philosophical and sociological discussions.

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