The Internet Sect: A Menace to Society?
Publisher
:
La Découverte
Parution date
:
2000
EAN
:
9782707133021
Description
If we were to push the powers of the Internet to their limits, we could conceivably eliminate direct communication between human beings. This is the basis for an extreme new philosophy being promoted by certain users of the Internet who believe that social relations should heretofore be carried out according to a principle of physical separation and a corresponding surge in indirect communication via such media. Le culte d’Internet examines this vision of the world which, for Philippe Breton, embodies certain values specific to American culture, including Puritanism and Manicheism. This movement fits with a new trend toward religiosity, linked to the decline of monotheistic influences. Breton’s provocative text examines the origins of this faction and reasons for its success, and is especially concerned with its implications for the future of social communication.
Author
Philippe Breton : Philippe Breton is a researcher at the CNRS and teaches at the University of Paris-Sorbonne. He is notably the author of L’argumentation dans la communication (La Découverte, 1996) and L’explosion de la communication with Serge Proulx (La Découverte, 1996).
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