Chapters authored
The Medial Turn in Knowledge Society
Many discourses tend to consider change in techniques as the main trigger for social change and economic development. This paper proposes the original hypothesis that the development of new techniques occurs at the end of a long lasting societal process, not as its cause. The rising of the knowledge society since the 17th century is engaged today in what we called the medial turn – defined as a cultural shift through the generalized digital communication. This process is the conclusive stage in the modernization process of societies conceived as positive-sum-game networks. Based on MacLuhan’s famous idea that the “medium is the message”, we address a few questions specialists and engineers are to be confronted to in the medial age.
Part of the book: Proceedings of the International Conference on Interdisciplinary Studies (ICIS 2016)