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| Author(s): |
Carlos Eduardo Souza Aguiar
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Comunicações e Artes (ECA/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2010-09-24 |
| Examining board members: |
Massimo di Felice;
Andrea Giuseppe Lombardi;
Artur Matuck
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| Advisor: | Massimo di Felice |
| Abstract | |
The research consists of an investigation that seeks to understand and interpret which type of representation of the sacred is favored or even enabled in the digital culture. The investigation is made through a comparative study between three types of manifestations of the sacred in digital networks (the traditional religion, the new age and the cyber-religiosity). This investigation is based on an interpretative framework of communication technologies that are understood as essential elements in the social transformations. Therefore, the investigation first aims to justify the non-instrumental character of the media from an examination of the history of the communication technologies, analyzing how different communication technologies have singularly influenced the religious field. The second stage of the dissertation intends to critically review the literature of digital communication, and mainly to explore how the subject of religion in the Internet was treated in the academic field. The last stages of the research relates to the empirical study of representations of the presence of the sacred in digital networks, adopting a research strategy that we call an exploratory participative online study, which holds singularities of each type of the chosen manifestation. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 08/02250-6 - The digital sacred: the technological mystic and the attendance of the sacred on net. |
| Grantee: | Carlos Eduardo Souza Aguiar |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |