Authenticity, Reception and Media Reality

• Authors: Peter Kosmály
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article deals with the reception of media reality, which is meant to be an alternative mode of consciousness, and with the phenomenon of authenticity and its understanding within media reality. It is also pointed out the distortion in the reception of media reality. As an unifying concept for media education and for the treatment of reception defects it is mentioned media anthropology - an interdisciplinary, respectively trans-disciplinary science, which can provide more consistent re-analyzing of the relationship between man and media as tools for improving his skills. From the methodological point of view the method of epistemological anarchism, Paul Feyerabend's "anything goes" is explained as an epistemological translation tool for developing reviewing competences and reception skills as a whole (organic reception). We propose to deal the distortion of media reception in different therapeutic ways: from sensory deprivation, through media substitution, organic reception, to transcendence of the observer and imitation of media - meta-creation. In the sense of organic, systemic reception we in fact propose to "copy" the communication strategy of media system(s) in order to extend or set appropriate "epistemic" competences. In the related illustration of this mechanism, the theory of A. Weinstock is applied for setting a research indifference point in the middle of a fictive reception continuum of polarities sympathy and antipathy with media. This paper represents a part of activities, which summarize author's dissertation thesis Reception instruction in the media reality, where there are presented not only analyses and attempted typology of reception instructions, but also case studies with specific proposals for teaching and researching within areas of media ethics and media education.

Keywords

EN

reception; media reality; authenticity; critics; ethics; hyperreality

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Creative and Knowledge Society
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 2
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 118-128

Dates

published

2012-07-01

online

2012-08-21

Contributors

author

Peter Kosmály

• Faculty of Massmedia, Pan European University in Bratislava, Nr. 77 Františka Hečku St., 934 01, Levice, SR

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10212-011-0021-5