New Challenges for Humans in the Context of E-Culture

Liudmila V. Baeva
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Liudmila V. Baeva: Astrakhan State University, Astrakhan, Russia

International Journal of Technoethics (IJT), 2014, vol. 5, issue 1, 59-68

Abstract: Modern humans feel great influence under developing electronic culture that absorb the self within important spheres of life: communication, education, game, creation. This article considers the base existential problem of personhood under the influence of virtualization and human transforming technologies. The author proves that electronic status of human form new possibilities and risks in ontological, values and ethical aspects, new form of freedom, necessity's and addictives. The aim of the article is philosophical analysis of existential challenges, occurring under the development of e-culture. E-culture as the world of virtual phenomena that became unique synthesis of consciousness and information technologies is studied from the point of existential and axiological approach. Under condition of development of e-culture formed a new freedom, new dependences and new risks for modern person.

Date: 2014
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