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The Fantastic in the New Media

Author(s): Silvia Petrova
Subject(s): Aesthetics, Sociology of Culture, Sociology of the arts, business, education, Sociology of Art
Published by: Институт по философия и социология при БАН
Keywords: augmented reality; new media; fantastic; popular culture; social media;body;

Summary/Abstract: The text discusses the interaction and blurring of boundaries between the real and the fantastic, resulting from the entry into our daily existence of the technology of augmented reality. Augmented-reality mobile apps may transform the world into a playfield, but this easy access to fairy tale narratives is always accompanied by the banality of everyday life. In this context, the article examines the new perception of the body as both real and virtual, as a hybrid between human and machine, and as tangible and elusive

  • Issue Year: XXVII/2018
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 152-159
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: English, Bulgarian