Mediaciones tecnológicas: el entramado invisible del ciberespacio

Abstract

The new information and communication technologies (ICT) open a wider range of possibilities for the social development of individuals from different social contexts: education, security, economy, work, leisure, among others. We live in an interconnected society, going beyond time and space boundaries; coexisting among certainties and uncertain-ties, and involved in a process of historical acceleration which has “change” as stable element. We find new behaviours in people, new social models, and technologies replace other ways of technological and social exchange. This is why it is necessary to know the role of technological communication in processes of adjustment to social change. We present the mediation mechanisms that take place in society and determine the production and reproduction capacity of the social systems. In times of the Internet, of a cyber-culture with advantages and disadvantages, ubiquity, speed, simultaneousness, information produced to the infinite and possibilities of finding illegalities as well; we pose a technological mediation, as an element to mix these topics, in light of the new social paradigms.