Las materialidades de la cultura digital y la cuestión del Antropoceno

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15448/1980-3729.2024.1.45673

Palabras clave:

antropoceno, cultura digital, materialidades.

Resumen

El surgimiento de la cultura digital y el surgimiento del Antropoceno son dos características significativas de la contemporaneidad. Mientras que la primera se refiere a las múltiples interacciones y ensamblajes engendradas por las tecnologías digitales y de red, la segunda se refiere al impacto de las acciones humanas en el medio ambiente global, impulsado, en el contexto actual, por estas mismas tecnologías. El objetivo de este artículo es investigar las materialidades de la cultura digital a partir del costo energético y ambiental presente en el proceso de producción, operación y disposición de los dispositivos tecnológicos que componen esa cultura. Por ello, nos basamos en la investigación bibliográfica y el análisis de datos estadísticos. Concluimos que la fase actual de la cultura digital es tributaria de una constante exploración de la naturaleza, aspecto que contrasta con el imaginario de inmaterialidad tradicionalmente ligado a los estudios de cibercultura.

 

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Biografía del autor/a

Carlos Eduardo Souza Aguiar, Universidad Federal de Río de Janeiro (UFRJ), Río de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.

Doctor en Sociología por la Université Sorbonne Paris Cité, en París, Francia; maestría en Ciencias de la Comunicación por la Universidad de São Paulo (USP), en São Paulo, SP, Brasil; especialista en Ciencias Religiosas de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP), en São Paulo, SP, Brasil; Licenciada en Comunicación Social, Filosofía y Ciencias Sociales por la Universidad de São Paulo (USP), en São Paulo, SP, Brasil. Profesor de la Faculdade Paulus de Tecnologia e Comunicação, en São Paulo, SP, Brasil; Investigador postdoctoral en la Universidad Federal de Río de Janeiro (UFRJ), en Río de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.

Dayana Karla Melo da Silva, Universidad de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, SP, Brasil.

Doctor en Sociología por la Université Sorbonne Paris Cité, en París, Francia; con posdoctorado de la Universidad de São Paulo (USP), en São Paulo, SP, Brasil; maestría en Comunicación de la Universidad Federal de Paraíba (UFPB), en João Pessoa, PB, Brasil; Licenciada en Comunicación Social-Periodismo por la Universidad Federal de Paraíba (UFPB), en João Pessoa, PB, Brasil, y en Ciencias Sociales por la Universidad de São Paulo (USP), en São Paulo, SP, Brasil. Investigador de la USP, en São Paulo, SP, Brasil.

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Publicado

2024-09-13

Cómo citar

Souza Aguiar, C. E., & Melo da Silva, D. K. (2024). Las materialidades de la cultura digital y la cuestión del Antropoceno. Revista FAMECOS, 31(1), e45673. https://doi.org/10.15448/1980-3729.2024.1.45673