Digitization of empathy: vital subsumption and digitization of the person
The objective of this article is to highlight the role of new technologies, emphasizing how the high level of technologization allows for a twofold analysis: a) we note how interactions are mediated mostly by a screen; as a result, emotions undergo transformations, ranging from an attenuation of emp...
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ftunivfirenzeojs:oai:ojs2.oaj.fupress.net:article/13267 2023-06-18T03:43:18+02:00 Digitization of empathy: vital subsumption and digitization of the person Auriemma, Vincenzo 2023-01-30 application/pdf https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/med/article/view/13267 eng eng Firenze University Press https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/med/article/view/13267/11845 https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/med/article/view/13267 Copyright (c) 2023 Vincenzo Auriemma https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 Media Education; Vol. 14 No. 1 (2023): MEDIA EDUCATION – Studi, ricerche e buone pratiche 15-25 2038-3010 2038-3002 Digital Social Work Empathy Twitch OnlyFans Social Emotions info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Article 2023 ftunivfirenzeojs 2023-06-06T22:08:28Z The objective of this article is to highlight the role of new technologies, emphasizing how the high level of technologization allows for a twofold analysis: a) we note how interactions are mediated mostly by a screen; as a result, emotions undergo transformations, ranging from an attenuation of empathy to the fetishism of it. (b) the passive use of these technologies, combined with the lack of critical analysis on the part of most of its users, allows a vital subsumption within an “other-world” (far from the world of life), virtual but superimposed on the real. Hence a distorted use of the “world”, manifested in the worst expression of empathy, on platforms that are used as work, Twitch and OnlyFans. Indeed, some users are live every day and viewers have their control with donations. Juxtaposing these two visions might allow for a reinterpretation of what Terranova pointed out, namely that the dazzle of internet freedom, or the internet of life, was followed by the bitter discovery; however, it is no longer the dazzle of internet freedom that is frightening, but the lack of adequate media literacy that allows users the acceptance that the new mission of the internet of life has assumed. Article in Journal/Newspaper Terranova Firenze University Press: E-Journals |
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The objective of this article is to highlight the role of new technologies, emphasizing how the high level of technologization allows for a twofold analysis: a) we note how interactions are mediated mostly by a screen; as a result, emotions undergo transformations, ranging from an attenuation of empathy to the fetishism of it. (b) the passive use of these technologies, combined with the lack of critical analysis on the part of most of its users, allows a vital subsumption within an “other-world” (far from the world of life), virtual but superimposed on the real. Hence a distorted use of the “world”, manifested in the worst expression of empathy, on platforms that are used as work, Twitch and OnlyFans. Indeed, some users are live every day and viewers have their control with donations. Juxtaposing these two visions might allow for a reinterpretation of what Terranova pointed out, namely that the dazzle of internet freedom, or the internet of life, was followed by the bitter discovery; however, it is no longer the dazzle of internet freedom that is frightening, but the lack of adequate media literacy that allows users the acceptance that the new mission of the internet of life has assumed. |
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Digitization of empathy: vital subsumption and digitization of the person |
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