Digital Culture And New Media (Research Introduction)

1- Digital Culture and New Media (Research Introduction)

“For the first time in history, the media make possible a mass participation in a productive process at once social and socialized, a participation whose practical means are in the hands of the masses themselves”1

It does not take Galilean perceptions in order to understand the complexity of new media and digital culture and the evermore expanding cosmos of the computer mediated communications. But, it leads us in a vague, indefinite space of exploration of this complex state. Certainly not an utopia, if we’d say that this is an utopic state nor condition, we would be circling around the utopic vision itself, and that is not what we pursue. How to understand digital culture, how to

An example would be that in the years 12 000 B.C. to the year we have gathered 10% of information while from the years 2014 to 2015 we have gathered 90% of data which just goes to show that we are facing an immense information gathering and thus are facing an explosion of the socio political realities and the implosion of political realities. The world as we knew it has shifted a gear into the unknown, blasted into a new (dis)connected hyperrealites, with the global (glocal) content having the same global concept though within the complexities of the local context is where things get messy. Because the world is as divided as it was before the explosion of social media and smart phones smart TV’s in our lives (as it was in the era of satellite TV), the problematic case of double standard of the developed countries towards the developing countries is still the factor x of a divisible world, where the software and hardware has getting us closer yet the divisions remain the same. In this case, it is easy to understand how the economic and political background works on a society, but, it is of outmost importance to understand how it behaves within perception and context. The implicit here is that it differs hugely in the developed countries (the west) and in the developing countries. The fragility of the software powered entire societies and the absurdity of the traditionally powered societies, yet they both are face to face and one (software powered societies) ever more so expanding with their artificially created needs of consuming and “being” of a certain automated image that has been haunting their perceptions of the world as they knew it. Consumer societies and being a consuming societies depends on a welfare on the general GDP of the country, it is absurd to state that a developing countries people can be called a consumerist. In order to be a consumer society