DIGITAL HUMAN BEING AND THE MEDIA ADDICTION
DIGITAL HUMAN BEING AND THE MEDIA ADDICTION

Summary/Abstract: The great evolution of technology it is a reality which we all feel. We are permanently abounded by new inventions and innovations that fill our lives, which may give us conflicting emotions: somehow, we integrate with the progress, we are happy because we can use high-performance equipment that make our lives easier, our physical effort greatly more comforting, reduce our production cost and time, expose our actions and feeling, all of this translating in more easier expressions and tasks; on the other hand, we ask ourselves where is the whole world heading when it is governed by technology, how I will live ten years from now, how our relation with ourselves and other people will be and if/how we can remain authentic. In today’s world we use a lot of electronic devices, multimedia devices, state of the art gadgets very useful in our workplace, or at home, on holiday in order to communicate, learn or enjoy ourselves. The disagreements and disadvantages appear only when we don’t know how and how long we should use them to reach our goals, finally being their tools. The contemporary man is far from being able to strike a balance, an optimum to be and to do when he is surrendered by pseudo-values proposed and passed on through social media, the internet or the mobile phone. In the digital age, an ethical base of education becomes obvious to re-organize naturally the way of thinking, of choosing, of deciding, of acting, essentially the way of being. The free human being but also responsible has to re-organize his moral values and norms based on his actions of conscience and knowledge, involving in his social and personal sphere. Human freedom and responsibility has to make their presence felt in a world swallowed quickly by false values that practically invade the essence of humanity.

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