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Sociology and Anthropology Vol. 1(2), pp. 52 - 58
DOI: 10.13189/sa.2013.010202
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Community and Language in the Information Age
G谩bor Sz茅csi1,2,*
1 Institute for Philosophical Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, H-1014, Hungary
2 Department of Cultural Mediation, Faculty of Adult Education and Human Resources Development, University of P茅cs, P茅cs, H-7633, Hungary
ABSTRACT
This article argues that the electronically mediated communication contributes to the construction of new, mediated forms of communities which are based on the interaction or operational synthesis of virtual and physical communities. The appearance of these new forms of communities leads to a new conceptualization of the relation between self and community. The aim of this essay, on the one hand, is to show that with the mediatization of communities, our concept of community becomes more complex. On the other hand, in this article I try to prove the assumption that the medium of the mediatization and new conceptualization of community is a specific pictorial language of electronically mediated communication.
KEYWORDS
Electronically Mediated Communication, Mediated Community, New Conceptualization of Community, Networked Individual, Pictorial Language
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[1] G谩bor Sz茅csi , "Community and Language in the Information Age," Sociology and Anthropology, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 52 - 58, 2013. DOI: 10.13189/sa.2013.010202.
(b). APA Format:
G谩bor Sz茅csi (2013). Community and Language in the Information Age. Sociology and Anthropology, 1(2), 52 - 58. DOI: 10.13189/sa.2013.010202.