Repository logo
 
Publication

Hyperreality and virtual worlds: when the virtual is real

dc.contributor.authorBarroso, Paulo
dc.date.accessioned2020-06-08T09:53:44Z
dc.date.available2020-06-08T09:53:44Z
dc.date.issued2019-12
dc.description.abstractThis article questions what is hyperreality and underlines the role of the signs/images fostering the perception of a virtual world. It argues the potentiality of signs as artefacts. Starting from Agamben’s perspective regarding contemporary, the hyperreality is understood as a modern, visual and mass manifestation of the need for simulacra in a non-referential virtual world. How hyperreality, spectacle, simulation, and appearance emerge out of reality? What is authentic or real are issues raised using images and technological devices. The images are popular and amplify the effects of distraction and social alienation. The image is immediately absorbed, spectacular, attractive, a peculiar ready-to-think that eliminates or dilutes the concepts and produces a fast culture. Through a reflexive strategy, this article is conceptual (it has no case study or empirical work) and has the purpose of problematize the experience of hyperreality, which is reshaping and restructuring patterns of social life and social interdependence, and the ways we see, think, feel, act or just mean and interpret the reality.pt_PT
dc.description.versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionpt_PT
dc.identifier.citationBarroso, Paulo M. (2019). Hyperreality and virtual worlds: when the virtual is real, Sphera Publica, 2 (19), 36‐58.pt_PT
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.19/6289
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.subjectHyperrealitypt_PT
dc.subjectimagept_PT
dc.subjectrealpt_PT
dc.subjectvirtual worldspt_PT
dc.subjecttechnologypt_PT
dc.titleHyperreality and virtual worlds: when the virtual is realpt_PT
dc.typejournal article
dspace.entity.typePublication
oaire.citation.endPage58pt_PT
oaire.citation.issue2 (19)pt_PT
oaire.citation.startPage36pt_PT
oaire.citation.titleSphera Publicapt_PT
person.familyNameBarroso
person.givenNamePaulo
person.identifier.ciencia-id5118-DF80-195D
person.identifier.orcid0000-0001-7638-5064
rcaap.rightsopenAccesspt_PT
rcaap.typearticlept_PT
relation.isAuthorOfPublicationd201ccb0-30c4-4030-8e57-fc3afd20327e
relation.isAuthorOfPublication.latestForDiscoveryd201ccb0-30c4-4030-8e57-fc3afd20327e

Files

Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
No Thumbnail Available
Name:
Barroso - Hyperreality and virtual worlds when the virtual is real.pdf
Size:
336.14 KB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format