Second Person Perspectives in the Information Technologies Era
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https://doi.org/10.26512/rfmc.v9i1.41038Keywords:
Alterity. Information and Communications Technologies. Direct Perception. Virtual Reality.Abstract
Our central aim in this paper is to analyze alterity relationship in the context of information and communication technologies (ICT), starting from the second person perspective and underlining the fact that the alterity direct relations are meaningfully changed by using ICT. We analyze first central theses for the second person perspective, discussing some criticisms that such perspective addresses to the theory of direct perception. Then, we introduce the concept of social and technological \textit{affordances}, aiming at clarifying the role they play in the alterity relations in computerized societies. We argue that, despite the gains provided by ICT in human communication, one of the undesirable consequences in social interactions is a confusion between an alterity experience in ecological reality and the so-called virtual “reality”. We shall try to point out pragmatic consequences of that duplication in the context of virtual “reality”, highlighting its possible impact on social habits structuring alterity relations.
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