Sustainable communicational realities in the age of virtuality

Mejías, Ulises Ali

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“…While computer‐mediated communities appear to be moving toward multimedia forms of communication (Soukup, 2000), these multimedia virtual communities remain highly understudied and require continued empirical investigation (Schroeder, 2002). Further, while scholars lament the shift toward “virtual” communication (Mejas, 2001), these multimedia contexts offer radically different ways for people to communicate in groups and form (and perform) unique kinds of culture and community (Waller, 1997). Because multimedia interaction may revolutionize the mediated communication process, preliminary research is essential.…”

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Multimedia Performance in a Computer-Mediated Community: Communication as a Virtual Drama

Soukup

2006

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

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In this study, I explored the complex multimedia performances of an interactive computer‐mediated community. Through the frameworks of Erving Goffman's dramaturgical perspective and Dell Hyme's ethnography of communication, I explored the patterns of multimedia performance of a virtual community called the Palace. The findings demonstrate how virtual architecture, visual context, virtual space/proxemics, and avatars can be used in social interaction in communities on the World Wide Web. More importantly, the analysis represents the multimedia communicative processes that serve to foster and sustain virtual communities. These communication patterns of the multimedia chat community represent a form of virtual dramatic performance in contemporary communication. Based upon the findings, conclusions, implications, and future directions for scholarship are explored in detail.

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Multimedia Performance in a Computer-Mediated Community: Communication as a Virtual Drama

Soukup

2006

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

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“…However, the question of how the problem of the sociality to connect to cyberspace is not exhaustive. Ulises Mejias (2001) calls communicative reality as a culturally specific conceptualization of social space that is created and shared by people through the act of communication. The development of virtual reality technologies allows us to look at the problem of communication in the social space from a different angle of perception and evaluation.…”

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Human in the World of Technologies: Attempt to Conceptualize a New Ontology

Yatsenko¹

2021

Skhid

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The article is devoted to the philosophical analysis of the phenomenon of technology and its influence to the content of modern socioculture. Based on the tradition of interpreting the phenomenon of technology as an explication of the content and structure of knowledge, the algorithm of effective activity and interaction, the author argues that the development of technology is not identical to increasing the number of tools and mechanisms, but means, above all, a simple and effective model of communication and social cooperation, which causes scientific and technological progress. It is argued that technology is the cement of modern culture, the channel of interaction between different levels of architecture of modern civilization. The understanding of the actual ontology of the technocratic standard as a space of pure freedom, purity of metaphysics is consistently substantiated, and therefore it is conceptualized that technology is the realization or materialization of possibility. It is proved that the metaphysical category of essence is replaced by the principle of functionality in the space of virtuality in the modern information society. The author argues that the development of virtual reality technologies is not the cause of such processes, but rather a natural consequence of history as the progress of human freedom. The idea of parity of actual and potential in the worldview orientations of the inhabitant of virtual space is substantiated, and it’s creates a distorted focus of perception of everyday life as vague and meaningless. Accordingly, virtual reality changes the predications of its own expediency: from the purpose of sublimation of irrational impulses to the production of rationality of a new emotional-affective variety, the criterion of which is fair to consider the metrics of public attention and publicity. The author argues that given the understanding of culture as a strategy of human survival, the issue of education is especially important not only as the acquisition of certain competencies, but also as a fundamental "experience of the possible."

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“…(2002, p. 163) While it is difficult to experience community authentically through technology, the best way to create ethical mediated communication is through moral wisdom (Schultze, 2002). Mejias (2001) represented similar concerns about the potential of virtual communities to have positive or negative effects. He explained:…”

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Tomorrowland Around the World 2020: A Virtual Pilgrimage

King

2021

JoCTEC

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The year 2020 was devastating to electronic music festivals and their attendees as the COVID-19 pandemic forced most festivals to cancel their events. Because attendance at these festivals is a sacred experience for many of their participants, this manifested as a loss for participants. Tomorrowland, however, created a virtual festival through filming DJ performances and working with visual effects teams. Tomorrowland Around the World functioned to constitute a global public. This paper will situate the electronic music scene in a spiritual context that promotes the well-being of its participants. Next, the paper will explain how the DJ performances worked with the visual production teams to create a sacred virtual space that promoted unity, love, life, and a general sense of well-being.

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Sustainable communicational realities in the age of virtuality

Cited by 8 publications

References 9 publications

Multimedia Performance in a Computer-Mediated Community: Communication as a Virtual Drama

Multimedia Performance in a Computer-Mediated Community: Communication as a Virtual Drama

Human in the World of Technologies: Attempt to Conceptualize a New Ontology

Tomorrowland Around the World 2020: A Virtual Pilgrimage

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