Abstract

CIMADEVILLA, GUSTAVO. Digital Society, Dual Society. Signo pensam. [online]. 2009, vol.28, n.54, pp.68-81. ISSN 0120-4823.

Far from working-class and peasant struggles against machines and closer to the worries and never-ending debates of the late 8o's in the 20th century, herein we focus on the microelectronic and telematic revolutions in the midst of a society that purports to seduce itself and us with the development and growth of digital technologies and intelligent devises; we find it timely to review the pros and cons of what we can call digital dualism, a state of affairs loaded with innovations, statistics, and tendencies that underwrite some sort of technological optimism. This paper raises questions and explores lines of debate which attempt to stray from the techno-phobia and/or the techno-philia which has characterized so many debates on the field.

Keywords : Digital society; information; communication.

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