Mass Culture: An Aesthetic Experience or An Experience of Fear?

• Authors: Małgorzata Gruchoła

Abstracts

EN

According to Étienne Gilson, an endless reproduction of the technical aspects of a work of art can modify not only the aesthetic experience of which it is an object, but also the culture it is embedded in. Since industrialization of a cultural product in the form of the internet is a means of generating mass culture, questions could be raised regarding its sources and effects. this article offers three assumptions: 1) the internet, together with its content and actions taken by internet users, is a source of fear of experiencing cybercrime; 2) experiencing cybercrime is a result of using the internet; 3) in mass culture, the aesthetic experience has been replaced by the experience of fear. in order to address the titular question, i performed comparative analyses of eU citizens’ opinions on the basis of the eurobarometer study conducted in eU countries (2013–2020) relating to the social perception of cybercrime, treated as a source of experiencing fear, and the level of their personal experience. A secondary quantitative and qualitative analysis of the collected data were performed, and a comparative method was used.

Keywords

EN

aesthetic experience; experience of fear; eurobarometer; mass culture; technology-based cybercrime; human-based cybercrime

• Publisher: International Étienne Gilson Society
• Journal: Studia Gilsoniana
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 289-323

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Małgorzata Gruchoła

• The John Paul Catholic University of Lublin

• https://orcid.org/0000000223670416

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Identifiers

DOI

10.26385/SG.110211

Biblioteka Nauki

2057138