期刊名称：Athens Journal of Mass Media and Communications
电子版ISSN：2407-9499
出版年度：2020
卷号：6
期号：2
页码：101-112
DOI：10.30958/ajmmc.6-2-2
语种：English
出版社：Athens Institute for Education and Research
摘要：We live in a society absorbed by the media. The individual loses himself by interacting with society and its members through technology. Neil Postman critiqued this kind of society by creating a new concept: Technopoly, showing the hegemony of the media in society. Similar critiques have been made by philosophers such as Charles Taylor, who explains the alienation of the individual from moral principles in this technopoly. Man has been unconsciously manipulated by the media ruled by the State. Released from natural laws, man depends on the media to frame his reality, his values, his norms. The individual loses the meaning of everything around him, and this makes him the center of the universe and considers himself "the measure of all things." The aim of this paper is to analyze the impact of technology in man from the perspective of philosophical anthropology and Charles Taylor᾽s works in the Ethics of Authenticity and Neil Postman᾽s Technopoly. We will analyze how man has tried to find his freedom and this search has chained him to technology and media. Man᾽s scope of reality is shaped by these means. That is to say, man has lost his freedom while looking for it. He is no longer able to think or to speak his own words. Rather it is the media that think and speak through him.
