Introduction. The social uses of the new information and communication technologies (ICT) are transforming culture and knowledge. This article discusses how scientific and academic literature interprets those changes and their consequences. Method. The research is based on the content analysis of a representative sample of relevant literary works. Results. The repertoire of cultural and cognitive effects attributed to ICT applications is described. The arguments contained in these descriptions are examined as units with system analysis methods. The study shows that such descriptions can be transferred to typologies, whose components and relations are represented in models. Conclusions. These models explain how scientists configure the collective production of knowledge about the cultural and cognitive effects of ICT. The study confirmed that these representation models reflect certain paradigms of the communication sciences.
Introduction: This article examines the socio-historical-and irreversible-transformations generated by the digitalisation of interpersonal relations, particularly, in the online communication of internet users with acquaintances, i.e., people they know, but are not a close friend. Methods: The study is based on a survey carried out among a sample of 2,801 Internet users and the analysis of data with discriminatory and structural methods, which resulted in the identification of four different types of communicators. Results and conclusions: The specific functions of online interactions with acquaintances are instrumental. Two kinds of transformations are identified: sociogenetic and anthropogenic. As predicted by the research hypotheses, these interactions are experiencing sociogenetic transformations, which reduced the digital gap, but no anthropogenic transformations, which would alter the position acquaintances occupy in the system of social distances and the functions they perform in social relations.
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