Between Utopia and Dystopia: The Virtual Happiness of Homo Digitalis Just a Click Away

This manuscript will focus not so much on the crisis of a consolidated happiness as on what might be called the emergence of the original experiential abyss for a given individual, and the incorporation, at best, of a subjective pattern of happiness. Likewise, we propose to operate with this ontogen...

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Autores: Castelló Mayo, Enrique, López Gómez, Antía María
Tipo de recurso: capítulo de libro
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (USC)
Repositorio:Minerva. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:minerva.usc.gal:10347/44877
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10347/44877
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Living cultural heritage
Homo digitalis
Virtual Happiness
Identity Crisis
Digital context
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Sumario:This manuscript will focus not so much on the crisis of a consolidated happiness as on what might be called the emergence of the original experiential abyss for a given individual, and the incorporation, at best, of a subjective pattern of happiness. Likewise, we propose to operate with this ontogenetic pattern in the framework of a socio-technological context, which has come to be called the “digital context”. The main originality or innovation of this manuscript lies in the essential but neglected link between the happiness of homo digitalis and his identification with a certain cultural heritage, as an antidote to the European identity crisis. If it is already difficult to establish a link between human identity and the cultural heritage that surrounds and shapes it, it is even more complex, subtle or evanescent to establish a close and justified connection between that same cultural heritage and the human feeling, not only of well-being, but of happiness, in a digital context.