Publication: Dimensiones antropológicas de la virtualización
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2021
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Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus del Estado de México
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La virtualización es un proceso continuo que está transformando las actividades e interacciones diarias. Tales transformaciones se reflejarán en cambios irreversibles en la organización y funcionamiento de las sociedades (cambios sociohistóricos).
La virtualización se construye reconstruyendo las funciones de información y comunicación que nos distinguen como seres humanos y que son específicas de nuestras sociedades. Este texto trata sobre el desempeño de estas funciones básicas cuando el mundo está virtualizado.
Los posibles escenarios de un futuro virtualizado son diversos y en ocasiones opuestos. Dependerán de los usos sociales que se hagan de la virtualización para el desempeño de tales funciones básicas. Dichos usos estarán guiados por los planes de los mediadores que eventualmente prevalezcan en el proceso de virtualización. En este trabajo se identifican dichos usos sociales y sus planes a la fecha y se analizan los efectos previsibles en el futuro. Desde esta mirada antropológica y sociohistórica, se examina la práctica y enseñanza de la comunicación, como instancia mediadora de virtualización; y la virtualización como forma de producción social de la comunicación. Las aplicaciones sociales existentes de los nuevos beneficios que brinda la virtualización, y las que se pueden vislumbrar, se relacionan con las aplicaciones y funciones de las innovaciones científicas y tecnológicas propias de las formaciones sociales monopólicas y globalizadas. Para estos análisis se desarrollan y aplican teorías y metodologías que se encuentran publicadas en trabajos anteriores. En las notas incluyo los enlaces a algunas de estas obras que son accesibles y abiertas en internet. Pero estos desarrollos se basan en una investigación empírica que se viene desarrollando desde hace más de cinco años, que da origen a los datos que sustentan lo que aquí se cuenta.
Virtualization is an ongoing process that is transforming daily activities and interactions. Such transformations will be reflected in irreversible changes in the organization and functioning of societies (socio-historical changes). Virtualization is built by reconstructing information and communication functions that set us apart as human beings and that are specific to our societies. This text deals with the performance of these basic functions when the world is virtualized. The possible scenarios of a virtualized future are diverse and sometimes opposed. They will depend on the social uses made of virtualization for the performance of such basic functions. Such uses will be guided by the plans of the mediators that eventually prevail in the virtualization process. In this work, such social uses and their plans to date are identified and the foreseeable effects in the future are analyzed. From this anthropological and socio-historical view, the practice and teaching of communication are examined, as a mediating instance of virtualization; and virtualization as a form of social production of communication. The existing social applications of the new benefits provided by virtualization, and those that can be envisaged, relate to the applications and functions of scientific and technological innovations that are typical of monopolistic and globalized social formations. For these analyses, theory and methodologies that are published in previous works are developed and applied. In the notes I include the links to some of these works that are accessible and open on the internet. But these developments are based on empirical research that has been developed for over five years1, which originates the data that support what is told herein.
Virtualization is an ongoing process that is transforming daily activities and interactions. Such transformations will be reflected in irreversible changes in the organization and functioning of societies (socio-historical changes). Virtualization is built by reconstructing information and communication functions that set us apart as human beings and that are specific to our societies. This text deals with the performance of these basic functions when the world is virtualized. The possible scenarios of a virtualized future are diverse and sometimes opposed. They will depend on the social uses made of virtualization for the performance of such basic functions. Such uses will be guided by the plans of the mediators that eventually prevail in the virtualization process. In this work, such social uses and their plans to date are identified and the foreseeable effects in the future are analyzed. From this anthropological and socio-historical view, the practice and teaching of communication are examined, as a mediating instance of virtualization; and virtualization as a form of social production of communication. The existing social applications of the new benefits provided by virtualization, and those that can be envisaged, relate to the applications and functions of scientific and technological innovations that are typical of monopolistic and globalized social formations. For these analyses, theory and methodologies that are published in previous works are developed and applied. In the notes I include the links to some of these works that are accessible and open on the internet. But these developments are based on empirical research that has been developed for over five years1, which originates the data that support what is told herein.
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