Comunicação e cibercultura : fé e tecnologia

Abstract

It is evident the need that the human being has to request the intervention of the sacred to solve life's problems. For this many practices are conducted face with objects, which are signs of the offering to the sacred one, in exchange for the free / request to be achieved. In the context of cyberculture, digital media and interactive electronic media offer this online opportunity and feed on the divine attributes as omnipotence, omniscience and omnipresence, giving new shape to them, and mediated communication technologies is the subject of worship and adoration, offering the internet the same spells. The objective of this study is to verify that practices and religious rituals as migrate from presentiality / corporeality to virtuality, that is, as is the case in cyberculture, the faithful-sacred communication interaction. Funerals and online voodoo, and practice of lighting candles and virtual pilgrimages are some examples of migration of magical-religious experience, setting the object of analysis and placing cyberspace as research scenario. These communicative processes important to know how is the interaction and interactivity. The methodology is qualitative approach, using netnography.