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Kulturní rozpory, nová média a elektronický boj
Culture conflicts, new media and electronic struggle

Author(s): Pavel Kopecký
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Ústav politických vied Slovenskej akadémie vied
Keywords: culture; civilization; media; propaganda; war; cyberterrorism

Summary/Abstract: Our time has become a time of many fascinating but also disquieting culture conflicts. It is an era of instantaneous transformations of mental maps. This is especially due to such metamorphoses of means of communication that had been inconceivable until recently and yet that ultimately challenge the very essence of communication. New modes of dissemination of information have emerged whose sources or anchoring in time and space trigger numerous culture-political reflections such as those of a danger of new ways of enslavement of man or at least menace to individual freedom through new forms of mass-media propaganda, or of the risks of homogenization of different civilizations, or of waging wars by means whose primary implementation is not lethal and which in some sense are even intangible though ubiquitous, which, however, have potential tantamount to arms of mass destruction.

  • Issue Year: II/2009
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 70-76
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Czech