The ‘evolution of large web platforms has taken place in the course of a very short time and, by taking over the role previously occupied by traditional cultural mediators, such as the family, school, church, parties, and newspapers, has resulted in a strong disorientation of users from the basic principles of culture and transmission of…
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The participatory web and Artificial Intelligence have demolished the structure and architecture of cultural mediation that existed before their advent in mainstream society. Social organizations that played a role in cultural mediation-such as schools, the mass media, the church, and political parties-were essentially marginalized in their social role, that is, in their key function as…
The advent of smartphones, particularly after the release of the iPhone in 2007, further accelerates the shift to Web 2.0, as it becomes even easier for users to produce content (photos and videos) and post and share it on social media. In addition, the pervasive spread of mobile devices prolongs the daily use of the…
A significant aspect of the evolution of the Internet is what is known as the participatory web, characterized, in the Web 2.0 phase, by the possibility offered to users to publish their content online. This mode of network user interaction is not only typical of the Social Media sphere-think of Facebook (2004) where users can…
The Internet, over time, has transformed from an invention of a scientific nature, into a platform for generating money, and it has done so spectacularly, as these companies, in a little more than 15 years, have realized the promises of the New Economy and have become the world’s leading financial enhancement companies. The phenomenon continued…
The basic assumptions of the new socio-economic evolution, promised in the New Economy phase, are being realized over the years, and today we are witnessing a strong control of the Internet by a few monopolies. In particular, a handful of U.S. companies control several strategic network sectors that are now evolving into Artificial Intelligence: Similar…
Let us try to give a brief overview of the evolution of the World Wide Web, which was born in 1989. Its originator is Tim Berners-Lee, a researcher at CERN in Geneva, who introduced the interconnected digital pages to the network, claiming that this invention would facilitate the exchange of information in science. Thus, the…
The issue of digital cultural mediation has become critical and urgent today due to the evolution of the Internet, which, after a few years of social media consolidation, presents an extremely worrisome situation with respect to the quality of information and educational processes, which is likely to worsen with the rise of Artificial Intelligence. We…
In the first phase of fruition of the most popular AI platform, ChatGPT, we witnessed its use by millions of students who have ChatGPT write research papers and summaries for them, make automatic translations, or use the platform to succeed on exams without having prepared and therefore without the necessary skills. To avoid the diseducational…
Despite the emphatic glorification of the “information society,” confirmed by speculative enthusiasm for the advent of Artificial Intelligence, the last few decades of exposure of new generations to digital media have not led to an extension, but rather a reduction in human intelligence, as shown by recent findings of trends in Intellectual Quotient in some…
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