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This paradigm shift we’ll intend to characterize was predicted more than ten years ago by Pierre Lévy, when he wrote, in his well known book, Cyberculture, that the fate of cyberspace instruments was not the cloning of existing forms, but to brig about the radically new, in such a way its evolution would meet forms that soften the distinction between administrators and the administered, the separation between teachers and students, and the division amid information consumers and producers. (1)
The first, dissolution of frontiers between administrators and the administered, is still a pipe dream. There are some signs of the establishment of the second, namely the restructuring of university curricula in Europe according to the outlines of the Bologna treatise, and which encourage a more active participation of students in the learning process, self-learning in academy and throughout life, and the need to take responsibility for one’s own academic path, implying new and more flexible curricula.
But the third form cyberculture would bring about, the blurring of the distinction between information producers and consumers has already happened, creating the new mediated communication paradigm this study intends to describe. Furthermore, our study argues this paradigm shift is mainly due to the new forms of socialization present on the web, which are changing and shaping our lives in unforeseen ways.
The first, dissolution of frontiers between administrators and the administered, is still a pipe dream. There are some signs of the establishment of the second, namely the restructuring of university curricula in Europe according to the outlines of the Bologna treatise, and which encourage a more active participation of students in the learning process, self-learning in academy and throughout life, and the need to take responsibility for one’s own academic path, implying new and more flexible curricula.
But the third form cyberculture would bring about, the blurring of the distinction between information producers and consumers has already happened, creating the new mediated communication paradigm this study intends to describe. Furthermore, our study argues this paradigm shift is mainly due to the new forms of socialization present on the web, which are changing and shaping our lives in unforeseen ways.
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Anabela Gradim (2009) Digital Natives and Virtual Communities: Towards a New Paradigm of Mediated Communication , Estudos de Comunicação, 5
cita a 1 LéVY, Pierre (2000), Cibercultura - Relatório para o Conselho da Europa no quadro do Projecto Novas tecnologias: cooperação cultural e comunicação , Lisboa: Instituto Piaget, Col. Epistemologia e Sociedade, n 138.
