The midiatization of zeitgeist. Imaginaries on the screen

La mediatización del zeitgeist. Imaginarios en pantalla

A midiatização do zeitgeist. Imaginários na tela

Vizer, Eduardo Andrés - Carvalho, Helenice
Detalles Bibliográficos
2019
Zeitgeist
ICT
imaginaries
screens
spirit of an era.
Zeitgeist
TIC
imaginarios
pantallas
espíritu de época.
Zeitgeist
TIC
imaginários
telas
espírito da época.
Español
Universidad ORT Uruguay
RAD
https://revistas.ort.edu.uy/inmediaciones-de-la-comunicacion/article/view/2912
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11968/4134
Acceso abierto
Derechos de autor 2019 InMediaciones de la Comunicación
Resumen:
Sumario:Zeitgeist’s nineteenth-century concept is defined as “spirit of an era”. It emerged from romanticism and german Philosophy of History. It represents the spiritual and conceptual essence (or the geist) of a particular time, place and people (Germany of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries) and is also the product of a zeist (an era). We propose that the zeitgeist of our times predominantly manifests itself through Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), social networks, the increasing digitalization of information and the material production itself, as well as everyday human practices mediatized by technologies. Social institutions themselves, politics and the physical economy tend to “materialize” on the screens of a virtual world governed by the processes of digitalization (the Information Society emerging through the processes of the cognitive economy). A reality physically based on screens, on material devices whose intrinsic value is not found in “objects” but in processes, images and data. An inmaterial world of signs and information conditioning all forms of reality. A reality governed by algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, interfaces, pixels, images, etc. The idealist “nineteenth-century spirit” of the zeitgeist of the 21st century has materialized in a universe of ubiquitous screens.