Title:	THE META-NATIONAL SPACE OF THE NEWORLD: VISITING VIRTUAL SOCIETIES
Author(s):	Papadaki Eirini , Mylona Ifigeneia
ISBN:	972-8924-02-X
Editors:	Pedro Isaías and Miguel Baptista Nunes
Year:	2005
Edition:	2
Keywords:	Virtual Social Spaces, virtual tourism, meta-national culture, digitalisation, cyberculture, eEurope.
Type:	Short Paper
First Page:	26
Last Page:	29
Language:	English
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Paper Abstract:	Much has been said about the new situation that has been created with the emergence of the new technologies, in all the fields of the social sphere. As Europe moves into the 21st Century, the interplay between social spaces and technology is more profound and pronounced than at any time before. Images of the cultures of the nations that constitute Europe are mediated through various media and reach out far beyond Europe. In Cyberculture Levy argues that new technologies have a dynamic character—they can promote and expand human knowledge. The net ocean is flooding information to all the parts of the globe. At some point in the not too distant future, Levy believes that the net will play the role of the mediator of the knowledge of the humankind. It is a vision towards a new technological era of convergence of values, harmonisation of culture and founding of a new kind of society. This new virtual society is seen as a cultural metamorphosis and a need for international collective education and knowledge. It is the new nature of social spaces (being formed through the network) that we will examine in this paper—the new social space that is formed in real time and with international dimensions—in terms of the mediation of specific images and ideas about each such space and their interconnection.
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