Intelectuais e Redes Sociais: Novos Media, velhas tradições

• Autor(a) principal: Figueiras, Rita
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Matrizes (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://www.revistas.usp.br/matrizes/article/view/48055
• topic: intellectuals; television; internet; eighteenth century salons; social networks; Intelectuais; Televisão; Internet; Salões oitocentistas

One of the central institutions where the identity of intellectuals was cemented, theeighteenth century salon, is being re-enacted today, precisely on the internet. By supplyingtechnological resources for the socialization of the projects of each intellectualin a network of similar subjects, lay experts and non-specialists, the Internet, a liquidmedia per excellence, as a privileged set for new authorities of knowledge to expressand expand themselves, became not just a cause of disintegration, but also a powerfulsocial re-construction tool both for intellectual community and public culture. TheInternet is a place where intellectuals are finding room for exerting their role of reflexiveconscience of contemporary era.