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Storia della società dell'informazione
Il futuro ha un cuore antico. Per Armand Mattelart, massimo studioso della globalizzazione e sociologo della comunicazione, la nozione di rete ha radici lontane e risale almeno al XVII secolo, alla scienza del calcolo integrale di Leibniz e all'utopia della città universale di Bacone, sintesi entrambe di un'idea di totalità e autosufficienza, sorta non a caso agli albori del capitalismo moderno. Scienza e utopia: da un lato, la statistica, il telegrafo, la geodinamica delle vie di comunicazione e di trasporto; dall'altro, il mito di una lingua universale e di un sapere enciclopedico, il progetto di riduzione dell'innumerevole al numerabile, all'organizzazione razionale di unità paradigmatiche, di serie logiche definite. Sono i Lumi ad avvicinare i due poli, fin quasi a confonderli. Da allora l'allargamento dei confini del mondo non è piú un sogno, ma la concreta attuazione di un disegno culturale, economico, sociale, che dissemina di reti - stradali, ferroviarie, finanziarie, diplomatiche, informative... - la geopolitica dell'universo, accorciando fulmineamente le distanze, avvicinando uomini e paesi, costumi e civiltà. La società dell'informazione è invasiva e capillare, si fa sistema, tecnologia, tecnocrazia. Il mito ecumenico si realizza nelle strategie globali di un mondo sempre più interattivo e omologato dal fattore informatico. Complici la fine delle ideologie e la filosofia del postindustriale, tutto si tiene, in una superdemocrazia elettronica dai flussi incontrollabili, che seduce e inquieta. Era questo il programma degli utopisti?, si chiede Mattelart. Il quale dà spazio, nelle conclusioni, ai rischi di omogeneizzazione e di squilibrio incolmabile tra chi manipola le tecnologie e chi le ignora totalmente; e quindi a quei movimenti di opposizione che non si riconoscono nelle logiche dell'economia globale.
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172 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1995
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About the author
Armand Mattelart
92 books21 followersAfter finishing his undergraduate studies Mattelart joined a community of secular monks in Brittany for one year, but went on to study Law and Political Science at the Catholic University of Louvain. Afterwards he studied demography at the Institute of Demographic Studies in Paris (founded by the influential left intellectual Alfred Sauvy -- who in 1952 coined the term Third World). Upon finishing his studies he is appointed as an expert on the politics of population by the Vatican, and in 1962 is sent to the Universidad Católica de Chile. While in Chile he married Michèle Mattelart.
While in Chile Mattelart was appointed to confront from a catholic spiritual perspective the strategic models for family planning which were at the time being pushed by the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations and the Alianza para el Progreso (Alliance for Progress -- a US official aid program). The US family planning model aimed to limit the natality to "improve the lives of the inhabitants of the continent" and of course in conflict with the Catholic teachings. The revolutionary transformations in Latin America post-1960 require that the Church enter the ideological fray and develop communication strategies applied to "ideological, political and social struggles" to create ideological and political alternatives to atheist communism or the "protestant North American imperialism".
While always based at the Catholic Univ. of Chile, Mattelart underwent a transformation in his thoughts and beliefs. He initiated a collaboration with the Centro de Estudios de la Realidad Nacional (CEREN) (Center for the Study of the National Reality), founded in 1968 under the auspices of the Catholic Univ. Jacques Chonchol was CEREN's director (also an important ideolog with MAPU -- a left offshoot of the Christian Democrats which was also part of the Unidad Popular government). CEREN's first research conducted by Armando Mattelart, Michèle Mattelart, Mabel Paccini, et al., had to do with an structural left analysis of the liberal press, the "celebrity" publications, the pseudo-amorous magazines. Mattelart primarily studied El Mercurio, the principal liberal newspaper. This was the starting-point of his life-long involvement with the history of communications.
The Cuadernos de la Realidad Nacional (Notebooks of the National Reality), CEREN's publication, became the principal ideological generators and emiters during the social democratic government of Salvador Allende (1970 - 1973). The journal was similar to the French post-structuralist model, and it was primarily aimed to analyze the political economy of the mass media. Under this rubric, Mattelart and Ariel Dorfman published in 1971 the famous pamphlet: Para leer al Pato Donald, manual de descolonización antinorteamericana (How to read "Donald Duck", a manual for American de-colonization), where they provided an structural analysis (supposedly Marxist) where they denounce the "yankee media penetration" via Disney comics. The book analyzed the celebrated family of ducks and presented them as nasty agents of the North American cultural imperialism. This book was banned in the United States lending it great publicity and it became one of the best-selling books in Latin America during the 1970s.
After the Chilean coup of 1973, Mattelart returned to France where (at age 37) he had to restart his academic career -- he became a visiting scholar at the University of Paris VIII Saint-Denis. He later became a full professor of Science of Information and Communication -- a topic on which he later became a theoretician. In 1974, he worked on La Espiral, a film justifying the Chilean route to socialism. Between 1983 and 1997 he has been Professor of Information and Communication Sciences at the University of Rennes 2 – Upper Brittany, and in the postgraduate program at Paris III (Nouvelle Sorbonne) -Rennes 2. Between 1997-2004, he has been Professor at the Université of Paris VIII. Since September 2004, he is Pr
While in Chile Mattelart was appointed to confront from a catholic spiritual perspective the strategic models for family planning which were at the time being pushed by the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations and the Alianza para el Progreso (Alliance for Progress -- a US official aid program). The US family planning model aimed to limit the natality to "improve the lives of the inhabitants of the continent" and of course in conflict with the Catholic teachings. The revolutionary transformations in Latin America post-1960 require that the Church enter the ideological fray and develop communication strategies applied to "ideological, political and social struggles" to create ideological and political alternatives to atheist communism or the "protestant North American imperialism".
While always based at the Catholic Univ. of Chile, Mattelart underwent a transformation in his thoughts and beliefs. He initiated a collaboration with the Centro de Estudios de la Realidad Nacional (CEREN) (Center for the Study of the National Reality), founded in 1968 under the auspices of the Catholic Univ. Jacques Chonchol was CEREN's director (also an important ideolog with MAPU -- a left offshoot of the Christian Democrats which was also part of the Unidad Popular government). CEREN's first research conducted by Armando Mattelart, Michèle Mattelart, Mabel Paccini, et al., had to do with an structural left analysis of the liberal press, the "celebrity" publications, the pseudo-amorous magazines. Mattelart primarily studied El Mercurio, the principal liberal newspaper. This was the starting-point of his life-long involvement with the history of communications.
The Cuadernos de la Realidad Nacional (Notebooks of the National Reality), CEREN's publication, became the principal ideological generators and emiters during the social democratic government of Salvador Allende (1970 - 1973). The journal was similar to the French post-structuralist model, and it was primarily aimed to analyze the political economy of the mass media. Under this rubric, Mattelart and Ariel Dorfman published in 1971 the famous pamphlet: Para leer al Pato Donald, manual de descolonización antinorteamericana (How to read "Donald Duck", a manual for American de-colonization), where they provided an structural analysis (supposedly Marxist) where they denounce the "yankee media penetration" via Disney comics. The book analyzed the celebrated family of ducks and presented them as nasty agents of the North American cultural imperialism. This book was banned in the United States lending it great publicity and it became one of the best-selling books in Latin America during the 1970s.
After the Chilean coup of 1973, Mattelart returned to France where (at age 37) he had to restart his academic career -- he became a visiting scholar at the University of Paris VIII Saint-Denis. He later became a full professor of Science of Information and Communication -- a topic on which he later became a theoretician. In 1974, he worked on La Espiral, a film justifying the Chilean route to socialism. Between 1983 and 1997 he has been Professor of Information and Communication Sciences at the University of Rennes 2 – Upper Brittany, and in the postgraduate program at Paris III (Nouvelle Sorbonne) -Rennes 2. Between 1997-2004, he has been Professor at the Université of Paris VIII. Since September 2004, he is Pr
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May 27, 2015
Un libro muy técnico desde el comienzo, el cual requiere cierta costumbre con el nivel de vocabulario y redacción que presenta. Además de tener conocimientos previos en diversos temas.
Mattelart nos presenta un texto muy detallado en los diversos paradigmas que la humanidad ha tenido que superar y como la Sociedad de la Información evoluciona junto a la tecnología. Invitando al lector a reflexionar en cómo se manipula, jerarquiza, clasifica y se entrega la información por las diversas elites generadoras de contenido de los grandes países desarrollados
Mattelart nos presenta un texto muy detallado en los diversos paradigmas que la humanidad ha tenido que superar y como la Sociedad de la Información evoluciona junto a la tecnología. Invitando al lector a reflexionar en cómo se manipula, jerarquiza, clasifica y se entrega la información por las diversas elites generadoras de contenido de los grandes países desarrollados
September 29, 2020
Gran síntesis de la sistematización de los estudios sobre comunicación en el siglo XX. Sin embargo, tiene demasiadas referencias bibliográficas que hacen la lectura un poco tediosa. Sirve como material de consulta rápida para comunicadores.
November 11, 2019
Un gran reto su lectura. Denso y profundo pero muy sustancioso.
April 30, 2024
Medio técnico pero aprendí
January 22, 2021
Suomeksi Informaatioyhteiskunnan historia. Suomentanut Risto Suikkanen.
Millaisista eri tekijöistä tietoyhteiskunta kehittyi 2000-luvulle. Melko abstrakti ja filosofinen katsaus tietoyhteiskunnasta. Korkealentoista, joten ihan ei saanut kiinni punaisesta langasta. Ajoittain muistuttaa hieman puppulausegeneraattorin luomalta. Vapaiden markkinoiden merkitys tietoyhteiskunnan kehityksessä kuitenkin nousi esille, samoin poliittiselta taholta tulleet sääntelyn purkamiset. Yritysten tai yksittäisten innovaattoreiden harjoittamasta luovasta tuhosta ei puhuttu juurikaan, vaan tekstissä oli havaittavissa valtiokeskeisyyttä, jonka mukaan valtiolliset strategiat ja työryhmät olisivat avainasemassa teknologian kehityksessä.
Millaisista eri tekijöistä tietoyhteiskunta kehittyi 2000-luvulle. Melko abstrakti ja filosofinen katsaus tietoyhteiskunnasta. Korkealentoista, joten ihan ei saanut kiinni punaisesta langasta. Ajoittain muistuttaa hieman puppulausegeneraattorin luomalta. Vapaiden markkinoiden merkitys tietoyhteiskunnan kehityksessä kuitenkin nousi esille, samoin poliittiselta taholta tulleet sääntelyn purkamiset. Yritysten tai yksittäisten innovaattoreiden harjoittamasta luovasta tuhosta ei puhuttu juurikaan, vaan tekstissä oli havaittavissa valtiokeskeisyyttä, jonka mukaan valtiolliset strategiat ja työryhmät olisivat avainasemassa teknologian kehityksessä.
February 5, 2017
Buen resumen de una gran parte de la historia y las teorías de la comunicación (y el desarrollo de estas).
July 31, 2014
Finalmente, livro maldito!
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