Why Do We Need the New Media? The Return Back to the Source

• Authors: Orzeł Barbara

Title variants

PL

Po co nam nowe media? Próba podróży do źródła

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

This article tries to answer the three main questions: where do the new media come from? What are the new media? And finally: why do we need the new media? The following problems focuses on finding common ground for concepts, phenomena and mechanisms that combines the digital and cultural order, provides the foundation for reflection on the philosophy of technology, the essential human's needs (related to the interface issues), the question of how metaphors matters in new media ("the extensions", "the communication channel", "the symbolic forms", the Net and the Rhizome). The foregoing discussion has attempted to present the cultural perception of media and the importance of communication in human's life.

Keywords

EN

media; new media; communication

• Publisher: Wydział Filologiczny, Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach
• Journal: Anthropos?
• Year: 2017
• Issue: 26 Podróż do źródła
• Pages: 155-165

Contributors

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Orzeł Barbara