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POSTMODERNIST CHALLENGES OF THE VIRTUAL COMMUNICATION: THE BATTLE OF TITANS
POSTMODERNIST CHALLENGES OF THE VIRTUAL COMMUNICATION: THE BATTLE OF TITANS

Author(s): Ileana Rotaru
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Media studies, Communication studies
Published by: Editura Politehnica
Keywords: virtual communication; postmodern paradigm; media effects; cyberculure

Summary/Abstract: The present paper, based on the socio-cultural arguments of the post-modern paradigm, demonstrates the necessity of theorising the concept of “virtual communication” as a specific element of the contemporary cultural and public space. From the methodological point of view, the research is based on a comparative approach: one that is originated in Jean Baudrillard’s ontological criticism, highlighting its dissonant elements and fear of an exaggerated technicism; the other one is rather an answer to the development of humanity as underlined in Pierre Lévy’s and Sherry Turkle‘s works.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 7
  • Page Range: 3-10
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: English