Portal de Periódicos da CAPES

A revolução contemporânea em matéria de comunicação

2008; Editora da Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (EDIPUCRS); Volume: 5; Issue: 9 Linguagem: Inglês

10.15448/1980-3729.1998.9.3009

1980-3729

Pierre Lévy,

Cultural, Media, and Literary Studies

The contemporary communications revolution, of which the emergence of cyberspace is the most striking manifestation, is only one of the dimensions of a wide-ranging anthropological mutation. First of all, I will try to put the development of the Internet and the digitization of information back into a long-term historical perspective. Secondly, I will try to characterize the originality of the new communication devices and will address some of the political, economic and social problems resulting from the rise of cyberspace. I will conclude with a poetic meditation on the web page.